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YouTube Founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen Working On New Project Called Zeen
After selling YouTube to Google, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen launched a company called AVOS. AVOS acquired Delicious from Yahoo! and revamped it. Now AVOS is working on a new project called Zeen, which allows people to “discover and create beautiful magazines.” Currently the service is not available, but you can secure a username. Multimedia sharing will be a core part of the service and a browser bookmarklet will be available with the service.
Categories Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, YouTube, Zeen
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YouTube Founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen Preparing To Roll Out New Delicious UI Later This Year
This past April YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen acquired link-sharing service Delicious.com from Yahoo! The two are prepared to launch a new version of Delicious.com later this year. Delicious is one of the most popular bookmarking services today. Delicious allows people to save and bookmark links from the Internet for future reference and organizing them using tags. Personally I am not a fan of Delicious as I like Google Bookmarks better.
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Social Media Management Company Hearsay Social Raises $18 Million
Corporate social media management company Hearsay Social has raised $18 million. The company launched this past February. Hearsay provides franchise companies and businesses with local chapters the ability to monitor social media across the whole organization.
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YouTube Co-Founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen Acquire Tap11
YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley has announced that they have acquired Tap11. Tap11 is a real-time social media business intelligence platform company. This is Hurley and Chen’s second biggest acquisition within the last month. Recently they acquired Delicious from Yahoo! Tap11 will become a subsidiary of Chen and Hurley’s company AVOS.
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Categories Adam Zbar, AVOS, Braxton Woodham, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Tap11
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YouTube Co-Founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley Acquire Delicious From Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has sold off Delicious (formerly known as Del.icio.us) to YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Hurley and Chen will continue to operate Delicious as it is for the next couple of months as users will be able to sign up for new accounts. The parent company of Delicious will now be AVOS, a company that was started by Hurley and Chen. Below is a press release about the transaction. [Yodel Anecdotal]
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Categories Chad Hurley, Delicious, Steve Chen, Yahoo!
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Y Combinator Startup ReadyForZero Aims To Help You Reduce Credit Card Debt
ReadyForZero is a startup that received seed funding from Y Combinator. ReadyForZero aims to help consumers reduce their credit card debt. Users can connect their credit card accounts online to find out how they can pay off that debt. Users can register a certain date that they want to be debt free by and how much they are willing to pay each month.
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Categories Dave McClure, ReadyForZero, Rod Ebrahimi, Steve Chen, Y Combinator
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