Startup Spotlight: Pinterest rival Clipboard looks to make screenshotting a breeze

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If you’re tired of taking those messy screenshots and arduously cropping them to the perfect size, the solution may be here. Clipboard is a Bellevue-based company that allows users to cleanly grab images or boxes of text from anywhere on the Internet and save them to folders on the site. The service often draws comparison to Pinterest, which was… Read More…

Q&A: Clipboard CEO Gary Flake on breaking down data silos

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Clipboard founder Gary Flake and his team are developing a new way for consumers to save information that they discover on the web. Find out what this former machine learning researcher-turned-CEO has to say about building a business, running the startup marathon, and how they are trying to break down the data silos created by… Read More…

Clipboard raises cash for online archiving service, tops 100,000 registered users

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Clipboard has reeled in a fresh round of cash for its online archiving service from strategic investor Scientia, money that the Seattle upstart will use to expand into the educational market. It marks the single largest investment in Clipboard to date, though the company is not saying how much it raised. It adds to the… Read More…

Clipboard opens Web page clipping service in wake of Pinterest craze

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After eight months in private testing, Clipboard is opening up its Web clipping service for public use with a number of new features that could position it as a Pinterest alternative. Clipboard, led by veteran technologist Gary Flake, allows users to for clip, save and share sections of Web pages — preserving text, images and links…. Read More…

GeekWire Radio: Kindle’s impact, the new iPad, and how Clipboard is capturing the web

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This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk with Gary Flake, the founder of Clipboard, a Seattle-area startup that offers a tool for clipping, saving and sharing sections web pages in live form — preserving not only text and images but also links and interactivity. It’s a competitive market right now, and… Read More…

Clipboard cuts and pastes new user growth in Amplify and Clipmarks deal

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Clipboard, the Web page clipping service run by former Microsoft researcher Gary Flake, has gobbled up the assets of rivals Clipmarks and Amplify which announced today that they are shutting down their respective services. Clipboard says it marks more of a partnership than an outright acquisition. Customers of Clipmarks and Amplify are being asked to join… Read More…

Gary Flake names all-star cast of investors in Clipboard’s $1.4M round

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Back in April, we discovered Gary Flake’s stealthy Internet startup Clipboard, reporting on the company’s $1.38 million venture round. At the time, however, we didn’t know who was bankrolling the former Microsoft and Yahoo researcher. Now, we’re getting a clearer picture. And, let’s just say it is an all-star group. Backers of Clipboard — which… Read More…

Ex-Microsoft researcher unveils Clipboard to save pieces of Web pages

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We’ve been wondering what computer scientist Gary Flake has been up to ever since we discovered his new startup company, Clipboard. Now, Flake, a former technical fellow at Microsoft who previously ran the company’s Live Labs research group, is taking the wraps off the new service. And so what’s Clipboard all about? Basically, it allows users… Read More…

Ex-Microsoft and Yahoo research guru Gary Flake starts stealthy Clipboard

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Gary Flake, a former technical fellow at Microsoft who up until last fall ran the company’s Live Labs research group, has emerged at the helm of a new Bellevue startup company called Clipboard. A filing with the SEC today indicates that the company has raised $1.3 million in financing, though investors in the startup were… Read More…