In a tumultuous year for Amazon Studios, Amazon’s motion picture and video division, head of film Jason Roppell has stepped down, according to Screen Daily. The move comes after an… Read More
Zillow sits at the top of the mountain in online real estate, with a market value of $8.8 billion. But neighborhood social network Nextdoor is moving into the block, announcing… Read More
Philip Gansert and his wife were vacationing in San Francisco after Thanksgiving when an alert on his smartphone notified him that someone was on his front porch back in Seattle. As… Read More
Erik Karlson was reading the news on his phone on Oct. 15 a few minutes after 1 a.m. when a motion detector sensor made a beeping sound in his driveway.… Read More
If your Kylo Ren jack-o-lanterns are carved, your “Stranger Things” costumes are hanging in the closet, and you’re wondering how this Halloween could get any geekier, look no further. We rounded up… Read More
Nextdoor, a social network for neighborhoods, has exploded in popularity in recent years, igniting controversy along the way. Critics say the site encourages fear of outsiders and racism among neighbors… Read More
Nextdoor, the social network for neighborhoods that brings to light everything from lost pets to serious criminal activity, announced Thursday that more than 100,000 neighborhoods now interact on the platform. Launched… Read More
On a trip to Seattle a few months ago, a New Orleans photographer’s high-end camera was stolen, along with the 1,500 or so photographs it contained. He returned to New… Read More
A story about a town hall-style event featuring Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole on the private social network Nextdoor led to the reporter of that story having her Nextdoor account temporarily… Read More
If you’re a Nextdoor user in Seattle, your new point person for Xfinity customer service is Shelli. Maybe you’ll bump into her at the neighborhood block party, too. Nextdoor, the private social network for communities,… Read More
Neighborhood social network provider Nextdoor has raised another $110 million in funding. In a company blog post today, Nextdoor co-founder and CEO Nirav Tolia announced the new round, simply stating, “This investment will… Read More
Emerald City users of Nextdoor now have a new away to stay on top of news from the City of Seattle, thanks to a new partnership between the neighborhood-focused social… Read More
Here’s another sign that things are heating up on the funding landscape. San Francisco startup Nextdoor has raised a whopping $60 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,… Read More
Nextdoor, a San Francisco startup that operates social networks for more than 3,500 neighborhoods across the country, has raised $18.6 million in financing from a large syndicate of investors that… Read More
Entrepreneurs sometimes fear pitching their ideas to investors out of concern that the business concepts will get stolen. There’s not much an entrepreneur can do, however, given that most venture… Read More
Back in 2007, Zillow unveiled a new offering called Neighborhood Pages that was designed to better connect home owners to their local communities. The idea didn’t really take off. But… Read More