Y Combinator startup Scribd has raised its second big round of financing - $9 million from Charles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group. That comes on top of a $3.7 million Series A round in the middle of 2007, plus some scattered angel investments.
Scribd is a site where users upload PDFs and office [...]

Are you a Twitterer, a Netlogger or a Platinum Lounger?  Do you take your widgets Qoofy, Sprouting, or Clearspringy?   Would you rather AddThis, ShareThis or Zemanta it?  In short: what are the best sites on the web this year?  You have only days to tell us!
It’s the final countdown.  You have until midnight PST on [...]

Google’s Chrome browser is officially ready for prime time. As we reported earlier this week, Google has dropped the Browser’s Beta label after a mere 14 weeks (many Google products, like Gmail, have been billed as Betas for years). The browser now claims over 10 million active users worldwide.
Since launching, Chrome [...]

The economy is still looking grim. Not making any money and not having an identifiable business model should probably mean you’ll have to make do with what you have and not expect anyone to pour any money into your startup, at least for a while.
Some startups, however, are still making it happen. Microblogging service [...]

Back in October Facebook announced the 25 winners of fbFund, each of which has received $25,000 to develop their application further. That was only one round of fbFund; now, 5 winners have been chosen, with each receiving additional $225,000.
fbFund is a 10 million dollar seed fund which is a little different than traditional seed [...]

Facebook has just named the five winners of $225,000 cash grants from the second round of its fbFund, a joint venture between Facebook, Accel, and Founders Fund meant to cultivate and reward excellent applications on Facebook Platform. The winners: GroupCard, Kontagent, MouseHunt, Weddingbook, and Wildfire.
 
GroupCard - GroupCard allows users to create online cards that [...]

Over the past month, thousands of nominees were narrowed down to a mere 79. Over 150,000 votes and nominations were placed. Now, your judgement day awaits: in one week, final voting closes in our search for the 26 best web startups and services this year. Will your favorite startup survive?
That’s [...]

Yesterday we dug out a cool slideshow which tries to tell us, in a mere 34 slides, everything there is to know about Google. It’s not the only Google-related slideshow out there, though; in fact, we’ve found dozens of them. Here’s a selection of ten we’ve found to be either very useful or interesting.
Google [...]

Web video platform Brightcove has so many API partners just two months after the release of Brightcove 3 that it had to create an alliance to contain them all. Actually, the Brightcove Alliance is more of a marketing exercise to acknowledge and promote its API partners. Nevertheless, nearly 100 companies (including Yahoo, AOL, [...]

Online web video streaming outfit Mogulus launched their premium offerings today with the availability of Mogulus Pro.
The new professional service allows users to remove the ads that are inserted by the company (though you can put your own in, if you choose), gives you detailed analytics, HD and Widescreen streaming capabilities, and the removal of [...]