Social site-maker RebelMouse locks down a $10M first round of funding
The pages you can create on RebelMouse are good-looking out of the box, and they’re also customizable, thanks to a WYSIWYG editor.
The pages you can create on RebelMouse are good-looking out of the box, and they’re also customizable, thanks to a WYSIWYG editor.
Editor’s Pick “Every single year we’re heard people say ‘this is the year of mobile,” Nanigans SVP Dan Slagen told me, laughing. “But this is the first time we’ve seen someone come forward and put forward the kind of number Facebook did.”
Editor’s Pick The most influential Instagram artists are eking out partnerships with brands, and making thousands of dollars in a day.
First the Pope, now the royal baby. Are there any institutions in the world so antiquated that they can’t find a way to embrace social media?
Guest Post In the past, being an international company meant you had offices, employees and activities across the planet. Today, thanks to the Internet and an ever-flattening world, any startup with a router can go global.
“We are the complete marketing suite for visual interest-based social networks,” Piqora CEO Sharad Verma told me yesterday. “We’re the only company that provides a unified dashboard for Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr.”
You knew the launch of the first Corvette to bear the Stingray badge of honor since 1976 would be a big deal in social media. The Corvette, after all, is America’s iconic, beautiful, and above all powerful sports car.
Vir2o wants to be the “local pub and community center” of the Internet. The startup launched a new social media platform today and revealed that is is backed by $1 million in seed financing.
Zero to ten million users in less than seven months might just make social cartoon startup Bitstrips the hottest startup you’ve never heard of.
“Facebook really represents an opportunity to connect over 900 million people,� said engineering director Doug Purdy, “but we hope one day for it to be the entire world.�
Reddit, the self-styled “front page of the internet” that has can send floods of traffic to unsuspecting sites and has luminaries like President Obama visiting to answer questions directly from the great unwashed, is only visited by six percent of online American adults, according to the Pew Research Center.
If you want to go big on YouTube, you don’t want do be a big corporate brand or repurpose content from the nightly news. You do want to be in the gaming, entertainment, or comedy industries. And you most definitely want to have something to say.
Twitter’s first five Ads API partners were dominated by hardcore digital advertisers. Its newest five API partners are dominated by hardcore enterprise-focused social media marketing firms.
Social media management utility HootSuite added the most popular online survey tool, SurveyMonkey, to its app directory today, along with real-time visual traffic analysis tool Chartbeat.
And, almost as an aside, the company stated that it has now passed seven million users.
Facebook page owners have long yearned for more insight than PTAT — Facebook’s people talking about this metric — offers. Starting today, they’re getting their wish.
Facebook announced today that the company now has one million active advertisers — companies or organizations that have advertised on the social network at least once in the last 28 days.
Twitter’s two major product launches 0f 2013 are heading in vastly different directions.
Social media’s impact on television watching is small compared to traditional marketing and communications but has the potential to grow quickly, according to new findings from a study conducted by the Center for Research Excellence (CRE).
“Most of what happens in social commerce is that the larger companies are looking at social opportunities through the prism of the past,” Steve Case explains. “They have the view that it’s ancillary, a curiosity, an extra.”
Sometimes there is a reason companies do things under the radar.