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0	Plaxo throws in the social networking towel, refocuses on address books Comcast-owned Plaxo used to have a straightforward goal: It helped users maintain their address books. Over time, however, the site has wandered into... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Mar 16, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Sweet revenge? Sean Parker may be bidding for Warner Music Group Sean Parker might be part of a consortium bidding to purchase Warner Music Group. If he wins, the founder of Napster might get some sweet revenge on... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Mar 11, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	WhitePages aims to clean up your address book with Hiya Seattle company WhitePages has built up a massive database of contact information for people and businesses — it supposedly has more than 200 million... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Mar 10, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Sean Parker says he enjoyed Social Network film, but “it’s complete fiction” The Social Network was a beautiful and well-made film, said Sean Parker, who is depicted by Justin Timberlake in the movie about Mark Zuckerberg and... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jan 23, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	TV app Tunerfish checks in to Android The team behind Tunerfish, the social TV application launched by cable TV giant Comcast earlier this year, just announced that it’s releasing an... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Dec 22, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Comcast’s Tunerfish social TV app gets a new face Comcast got into the social TV game in June with the launch of a new service called Tunerfish. Today, the company announced a bunch of upgrades that... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Nov 11, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg now worth more than Steve Jobs The annual Forbes 400, which attempts to measure and rank the richest Americans in terms of their net-worth, came out today with a big surprise:... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Sep 22, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	DEMO: WayConnected replaces your business card WayConnected is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Sep 15, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Plaxo Returns to Its Address Book Roots, Offers the Most Intelligent Address Book for Your Connected Life MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Plaxo, creators of the world’s most powerful address book, today announced a company relaunch & availability... Source: businesswire.com Date: Mar 16, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Plaxo Goes Back To Being A Smart Address Book, Launches Virtual Assistant Plaxo has had its fair share of ups and downs. Back in 2006, the company famously wrestled with spamming allegations and was later the subject of... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Mar 16, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	What Would Happen If Napster's Co-Founder Owned Warner Music? An interesting possible scenario arose last week, when it was reported that Sean Parker (recently fictionally immortalized by Justin Timberlake in the... Source: techdirt.com Date: Mar 14, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	YC Startup Custora Helps Businesses Battle Churn While there are lots of tools that help businesses get customer's attention and boost conversion rates, there's little out there to help businesses... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Mar 2, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Comcast’s Tunerfish Brings Social Video Discovery Platform To Android Phones We've covered Tunerfish, Comcast's attempt at social video discovery, several times. Incubated by the Plaxo team, Tunerfish made its real world debut... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Dec 22, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Social Networking: The Present Editor's note: This is the second of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners on "Social Networking: The Past,... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Dec 4, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Comcast’s Social Video Discovery Engine Tunerfish Gets A UI Makeover, Releases New Version Of iPhone App A few months ago, we got a glimpse of Tunerfish, Comcast's attempt at social video discovery, at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. Incubated by the... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Nov 11, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Gluster gets $8.5M for clustered storage Notable firm Index Ventures more than triples Guster's total funding with good-sized second round Gluster, provider of an open source clustered... Source: vator.tv Date: Nov 9, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Napster 10 years later Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker changed the world, and they're just 29 and 30-years-old Ten years ago in October, Shawn Fanning, co-founder of Napster,... Source: vator.tv Date: Oct 3, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Google Ready To Slurp Up More Yahoo Users With OpenID Sign-Ups Google just made it easier for people with Yahoo accounts to sign up for a Google account. With one click, you can now use your Yahoo credentials to... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Sep 7, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Meebo Co-founders Help Chat Startup HipChat Score $100K Usually when a startup raises $100K, it's not much to shake a stick at. With young companies raising tens of millions of dollars or being gobbled up... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Aug 10, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	New HootSuite Features Offer More Insight About Your Customers In a move certain to please small and medium business owners, social media management platform HootSuite announced today the addition of new features... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Jul 13, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0