Shareaholic’s most recent analysis of its network traffic found that StumbleUpon’s share of referred traffic has continued its downward trend, and now has declined by 53 percent since July. Read More
McLean, Va. - Google (NASD: GOOG), Microsoft (NASD: MSFT), and a number of social media sharing services announced on Wednesday that they have teamed to develop a new protocol that aims to define how an ever-growing array of content sharing tools interact with various social Web services.
The protocol, known as OExchange, establishes a common way for services like Google Buzz and Posterous to receive content, and defines how third-party tools, such as Clearspring’s AddThis, can find and share that content.
Hooman Radfar, the co-founder and CEO of Clearspring, [...].
San Jose, Calif. – Online auction giant eBay (NASD: EBAY) has sold its StumbleUpon recommendation engine back to its original founders for an undisclosed sum.
San Jose, Calif.-based eBay acquired StumbleUpon in 2007 for $75 million.
"After nearly two years as a subsidiary of eBay, today StumbleUpon returns to being an independent company," co-founder Garrett Camp wrote on the company’s blog.
"StumbleUpon is now backed by myself and co-founder Geoff Smith, along with several great investors who’ve backed companies such as Google and Facebook."
The founders say their goal is [...].
San Jose, Calif. - Online auction giant eBay announced on Wednesday that it has acquired StumbleUpon, a service that lets users discover and share websites and online videos, in a deal valued at $75 million.
Founded in 2001, San Francisco-based StumbleUpon has built a community of 2.3 million users who post five million recommendations daily, and also rate other users' submissions.
"StumbleUpon is a great fit within our goal of pioneering new communities based on commerce and sustained by [...].
Calgary, Canada – StumbleUpon, a developer of search technology that recommends sites based on a community of nearly 2 million users' interests, has announced the creation of a new interface designed specifically for the Nintendo Wii. Already available for Firefox and Internet Explorer, the StumbleUpon service now also supports the version of the Opera browser used by the Wii for Internet browsing. The service will allow Wii users to search for Web video content and view it on [...].
