Evri CTO Deep Dhillon jumps to Alliance Health Networks

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Alliance Health Networks isn’t wasting anytime bolstering its Pacific Northwest operations following the purchase Medify, a Seattle upstart that it gobbled up two weeks ago. The Salt Lake City company, which operates niche-oriented social networks for more than three dozen diseases, plans to announce the hiring of Deep Dhillon as chief data scientist. Dhillon most recently… Read More…

Lockerz buys online fashion site Chick Approved

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Lockerz continues to bolster its ranks through acquisitions, with the fast-growing Seattle social shopping company announcing that it has acquired online fashion community Chick Approved. Chick Approved — founded by Jeff Turnbull, Brett Miller and David Dripps – allows its users to get feedback on fashion choices. As part of the deal, Lockerz will continue to… Read More…

A little piece of Facebook: Would you invest in Zuck’s big IPO?

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Facebook has the Internets abuzz this week in advance of its IPO announcement. It is coming with plenty of speculation: Is the wunderkind of Silicon Valley worth its reported $105 billion valuation? We’re wondering, would you buy Facebook stock, its value tottering between $34-$38 per share? In a piece today in the The New York… Read More…

Facebook sets IPO range: Social networking giant to be valued at more than $75 billion

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Facebook is getting one step closer to becoming a publicly-traded company, with the social networking powerhouse today disclosing in a SEC filing that it intends to sell shares in the price range of $28 to $35 per share. The deal would value the company between $77 billion and $96 billion, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s stake… Read More…

Chirpify lands $1.3 million to sell music and concert tickets through Twitter

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Twitter is great for sharing content. But when it comes to actually conducting commerce, the fast-growing social networking service leaves something to be desired. Portland’s Chirpify wants to solve that problem, and it just landed $1.3 million in a first round of funding from a group of angel investors that includes BuddyTV CEO Andy Liu;… Read More…

Baby’s first turd and other unshareables: How Mom is too Mom?

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There was no way she was serious. “Please tell me you’ve never actually seen someone post a pic of their baby’s turd, and that it was just a joke on ‘Friends with Kids,’” I typed on a friend’s Facebook post last week. “PLEASE TELL ME THAT. ” She didn’t. She couldn’t. A Facebook friend had… Read More…

Live from Facebook’s new Seattle engineering office

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UPDATE: The live broadcast is now over, but you can watch the archived version above. I’m over at the new offices of Facebook’s Seattle engineering operations for an open house this afternoon, marking the company’s move to a larger space in the city, to accommodate more employees. The operations have grown from 17 to 90… Read More…

The battle to train a market: Instagram is what Facebook has been telling you guys to do for like a year, okay?

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By now, it’s probably been brought to your attention that Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars on Monday, valuing the two-year-old photo-sharing service at approximately $100 million per employee. Predictably, everyone is asking why. More than one reputable journalist has covered this story by referencing Facebook’s continued inability to create a compelling, intuitive mobile… Read More…

Say, what? Myspace moves up in ranking of top 50 U.S. Web sites

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Facebook and Pinterest may be all of the rage. But a social networking site of another era is having a bit of a resurgence, at least according to a report out today. ComScore reports that MySpace is now the 42nd most visited Web site in the U.S. with 25.4 million unique visitors. Myspace ranked 50th… Read More…

Startup Spotlight: MoxTree branches out with a social network for moms

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As the mother of two young children, Victoria Oldridge knows just how challenging it can be to raise kids. Sometimes you just need someone to lean on, a bit of help and support when things are out of control. That’s why the 33-year-old entrepreneur and San Francisco Bay Area transplant formed MoxTree, a social networking site… Read More…