Edmodo Raises Another $25 Million For Education Tech
Startup Edmodo has raised $25 million led by venture firm New Enterprise Associates to scale its online education platform. [...] more>>
The super-connected Silicon Valley star made a bundle when his business-focused social network, LinkedIn, debuted on the NYSE in May. An original member of the PayPal mafia, he co-founded LinkedIn in 2002. The Stanford and Oxford alum now looks for hot start-ups as a partner at venture capital firm Greylock Partners. He has substantial stakes in other social network powerhouses like Facebook and Zynga. [...] more
Startup Edmodo has raised $25 million led by venture firm New Enterprise Associates to scale its online education platform. [...] more>>
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PayPal, the online payments company that eBay bought in 2002, is legendary in Silicon Valley for spawning an incredibly talented group of founders, investors, and executives at startups that read like a Who's Who of Web success stories. The so-called PayPal Mafia includes Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, LinkedIn cofounder, angel [...] [...] more>>
Good news, MySpace: You've just been eclipsed as the biggest bust of the social media era. Digg, only a couple years ago the most popular social news site around, has been sold to Betaworks for $500,000, reports The Wall Street Journal. Its last round of funding, in 2008, valued the company at $164 million. [...] more>>
People might learn of new positions open on Facebook—especially if they harness their Facebook friends and network to assist in the search--but then they would turn to LinkedIn for further research or to find contacts who could help them. [...] more>>
We're here at Zynga's San Francisco headquarters for social gaming company's second annual "Zynga Unleashed" event. Stay tuned for the live blog. [...] more>>
