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| Jan 18, 2017 | Inside the acquisition of Brooklyn dating app Bae | When Bae announced earlier this month it was being acquired by a bigger firm in San Francisco, we wondered why. By all accounts, the mobile dating app focused on the African diaspora was doing well. But nonetheless, the app, founded by brot... |
| Jun 1, 2013 | Why startups should embrace intrapreneurship | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Intrapreneurship (entrepreneurship within a large... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Gary Sharma’s Highlights from SXSW 2013 (Grumpy Cat, Elon Musk, Shaq, BBQ Pool Parties, Angry Birds & more!) | Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun, singer/songwriter Tori Kelly, IRL Productions’ Emily Gannett and billionaire / Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban at Conduit Corner @ SXSW 2013 (photo by Erica Gannett)
This is a guest post from Gary Sh... |
| Jan 9, 2013 | Using Big Data To Solve Social Discovery’s Relevance Problem | Guest author Johann Schleier-Smith is co-founder and CTO of Tagged, a social-media site designed to connect people of like mind who don’t already know each other.
The desire to connect with people is part of being human, with countless gene... |
| Dec 8, 2012 | Defining A Growth Hacker: Debunking The 6 Most Common Myths About Growth Hacking | In this series titled “Defining a growth hacker,” I explore the meaning and practical application of growth hacking through a number of interviews with prominent growth hackers. This is the fifth and final post in the series. The previous p... |
| Oct 16, 2012 | Tag team: Social network Tagged acquires discovery app Urbantag | Tagged has acquired location-based social discovery app Urbantag, a move to help the popular social network for meeting new people make more inroads in mobile networking.
Urbantag is Tagged’s fifth acquisition, following the 2011 purchases ... |
| Oct 16, 2012 | Tag team: Social network Tagged acquires discovery app Urbantag | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Tagged has acquired location-based social discove... |
| Sep 2, 2012 | Defining A Growth Hacker: Three Common Characteristics | In this series titled “Defining a growth hacker”, I will be exploring the meaning and practical application of growth hacking through a number of interviews with prominent growth hackers. This is the first post the series and will outline t... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | Tagged Raises $15M in Financing | Tagged, a San Francisco, CA-based social network for meeting new people, has raised $15m in debt financing.
Backers include Lighthouse Capital Partners and Comerica Bank.
The company intends to use the funding to grow key products for its m... |
| Aug 22, 2012 | Tagged grabs $15M to help you meet new people | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Popular social network Tagged has raised $15 mill... |
| Aug 22, 2012 | Funding Daily: it is a nutty nutty world out there | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Maybe it is because we keep a jar of trail mix he... |
| Jun 4, 2012 | Friend discovery: the next big trend in social | Facebook has become the undisputed king of social networking, serving almost 1 billion active users and valued at over $100 billion. Even with this incredible rise, Mark Zuckerberg and many others believe we’re still at the beginning of the... |
| Jan 26, 2012 | Tagged Begins Transformation Of Social Gaming Network hi5 | Tagged first announced its acquisition of struggling social network hi5 in December. Now, the company says it’s ready to talk about what’s going to happen to the property.
Basically, Tagged will continue operating hi5 as a separate site, bu... |
| Jan 18, 2012 | Tagged: Four Years Profitable, Big Plans for hi5 | Social network Tagged seems to have found a model that works — the company says that 2011 was its fourth consecutive profitable year, and that its revenue grew 35 percent to more than $43 million.
At the same time, Tagged became an aggressi... |
| Jan 7, 2012 | Engineering Serendipity | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Catherine Cook is the co-founder of MyYearbook, a social network for meeting new people.
When John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale reach for the same pair of black gloves in the movie Serendipity, they meet and f... |
| Dec 14, 2011 | Tagged acquires social network Hi5 | We’re seeing some social network consolidation happening: Tagged has acquired Hi5. The move will double Tagged’s online community from 10 million to 20 million active users.
The deal ends Hi5’s attempt to transform itself from an internatio... |
| Dec 14, 2011 | Led by Seattle tech veterans, hi5 finds a buyer in Tagged | Hi5, the San Francisco social networking company led by Seattle gaming and advertising veterans Bill Gossman and Alex St. John, has been acquired by Tagged Inc. for an undisclosed price. Together, the combined company will have about 20 mil... |
| Dec 14, 2011 | Facebook’s Leftovers? Social Network Tagged Acquires hi5 | Social networking service Tagged, Inc. announced it has acquired the social game network hi5 today, doubling Tagged’s monthly active users to 20 million. The combination will also increase the total number of registered users to 330 million... |
| Dec 14, 2011 | Tagged acquires social network Hi5 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’re seeing some social network consolidation happening: Tagged has acquired Hi5. The move will double Tagged’s online community from ... |
| Dec 14, 2011 | Tagged acquires Hi5 in a bid to double its user base | Smaller social networks bunching up to survive under the powerful dominance of Facebook
One of Facebook's competitors, Hi5, was acquired by San Francisco-based Tagged on Wednesday.
In 2008, Hi5 was in the top tier of social networks, along ... |
| Dec 10, 2011 | Tagged buys Topicmarks to help discover people easier | The social discovery service, Tagged, has announced an acquisition of Topicmarks, which uses semantic engine to summarize content. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
At the time of the acquisition, Topicmarks was used in over 160 cou... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | Tagged Acquires Topicmarks To Improve Friend Suggestions With Natural Language Processing | Tagged’s mission is to help strangers meet each other online, so it has to offer friend suggestions of people you’ll like and who’ll like you back. That’s why it acquired Topicmarks, a natural language processing and machine learning compan... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | Social Discovery Meets Gaming Discovery: Tagged Buys WeGame | As everyone is well aware by now, a key part of every social network is gaming. Even when Google+ launched amid fanfare this summer, everyone quickly wondered: where are the games? And they quickly came. Now Tagged, the social network that ... |
| Jun 14, 2011 | Favorite Moments From Disrupt NYC Day Two | Day One of Disrupt NYC was packed with all-star speakers and Day Two was just as memorable. All of the photos and videos can be found here and here, but here is a quick breakdown of our favorite moments from Day Two.
The second day kicked o... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | Thanks to RWW 2WAY Summit Sponsors | Excitement is building for the upcoming RWW 2WAY Summit in New York on June 13th and 14th. This is our biggest live event to date. If you haven’t yet, please check out the program and consider registering!
We wanted to take a moment and tha... |
| May 4, 2011 | Howard Lindzon, Yossi Vardi, Greg Tseng, and Bradley Horowitz All Ready To Disrupt In NYC | TechCrunch Disrupt NYC starts May 23rd—less than a month away. And we are very excited to announce four more guests to our growing list of speakers who will be joining us at this year’s Disrupt in NYC: Howard Lindzon, Yossi Vardi, Greg Tsen... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | Tagged buys Digsby | San Fransisco-based social network Tagged has announced that it will buy the popular Social/Instant Messaging Client digsby.
Digsby is a multi-platform Social and Instant Messaging Client available for Windows (eventually due on Mac and Lin... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | Tagged Buys Popular Social/Instant Messaging Client Digsby | Tagged, the San Francisco-based social network that is most notable because of its ability to grow profitably during the Facebook era, has closed its first acquisition. dotSyntax, the corporation that created the popular Digsby instant mess... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | Why Tagged snapped up social networking application Digsby | Social networking connector Tagged has acquired instant messaging and social aggregator Digsby as it attempts to give users more tools to manage their instant messaging, emails, tweets and social networks all in one place.
Terms, including ... |
| Apr 3, 2011 | Yet Another Senior MySpace Exec Bails: SVP Tish Whitcraft Joins Tagged | “Tish Whitcraft recently joined MySpace as SVP of Customer Care responsible for delivering a world-class user experience to the 250 million + MySpace users,” the company said in mid 2008 when Whitcraft, a seasoned big company executive, joi... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | A social network dark horse? Tagged has 100M registered users | When you think of popular social networks, Tagged probably isn’t the first one that comes to mind. Or the second. But the San Francisco company said that it had a hugely successful 2010, ending the year with more than 100 million registered... |
| Sep 2, 2010 | How Tagged Found A 100 Million User Path Post Facebookocalypse (Video) | Heard of Tagged? Back in 2005 it was a teenager-only social network, catering primarily to U.S. high school students as Facebook charged through the college crowds. By 2007 they were profitable and worth over $100 million.
Just one problem ... |
| Jan 29, 2010 | Tagged.com Wins $201,975 In Default Judgment Against Spammer | Social networking company Tagged.com has been awarded more than $200,000 in a default judgment against Erik Vogeler, who spammed thousands of Tagged members by sending them unsolicited messages with links to an adult dating website.
In a ru... |
| Jul 10, 2009 | New York sues social network Tagged for alleged email invite scam | Even though it’s based in San Francisco, social network startup Tagged is getting busted by the state of New York for scraping users’ address books to send out millions of new invites. Spearheaded by attorney general Andrew Cuomo, the suit ... |
| Jun 16, 2009 | Let's Not Put Tagged In The DeadPool Just Yet | Harsh words from peHUB yesterday about social networking site Tagged. They took an article complaining about invitation spam and drew a line practically putting the company into the deadpool. In our opinion, Tagged is actually humming along... |
| Oct 25, 2008 | Happy hours and hype on the social-networking sites | Where did everybody go? Recent Nielsen Online statistics reveal that the social-networking congregating online may not be hanging out where you think they are.
Nielsen's September numbers for thirteen sites with a significant social-network... |
| Oct 2, 2007 | Netvibes introduces personalized home page for publishers | Netvibes, one of the first companies to offer homepages that you can personalize, is outsourcing its service. It is handing over its technology to publishers, so that they can let their users personalize pages on their sites.
So far, large ... |
| Jul 23, 2007 | Social network Tagged follows Hi5 with funding? | [Update 7/25: Tagged’s Greg Tseng has gotten back to us and said there has been no funding and that the TechCrunch article “was entirely false.”]
Tagged is rumored to have followed Hi5 in raising a large amounts of cash to try to conquer th... |
| Jul 23, 2007 | Big Money For Tagged, Too | Word about social network Hi5’s $20 million financing leaked earlier today. But that isn’t it for social networking funding news. We hear it from a good source, but without confirmation by the company, that Tagged has raised its own $15 mil... |
| May 21, 2007 | Roundup: Peak coal, Yahoo-Bebo rumors, Mixercast and much more | Here’s the latest action:
Peak coal? — You’ve probably heard of the concept of “peak oil,” which refers to that point in time when we extract more oil than ever before, but after which we begin a long, steady decline as oil gets harder to l... |
| May 14, 2007 | Roundup: IM mania, VCs in red, Facebook classifieds road-kill, and much more | Here’s the latest action:
Feed Crier gets bought — Feed Crier, the service that lets you subscribe to blogs or other content within your instant messenger (IM), has just been bought by IMified. That company, meanwhile, says it plans to do m... |
| May 9, 2007 | Tagged Turns Profitable – May Be Fastest Growing Social Network | Silicon Valley based Tagged was a young-teen focused social network that, like Piczo, focused on security of its users first. It is part of a vague second-tier of social networks that assemble under the MySpace/Facebook giants and includes ... |
| Aug 14, 2006 | Userplane purchased by AOL | Web messaging services company Userplane has been acquired by AOL, it was was announced this morning. This company powers the interactive features (chat, video chat, video profiles, etc.) on most online dating and many social networking sit... |
| Jun 15, 2006 | Imbee, the chaperoned social networking site, launches | Imbee, the new social networking site for kids aged 8 to 14, will launch sometime tonight. Imbee, owned by parent company Industrious Kid, is betting parents of these youngsters want a safer alternative to the more liberal MySpace. With Imb... |
| Jan 24, 2006 | Latest Silicon Valley start-ups: Tagged, Arcadian, CarHarbor | Tagged — This new San Francisco developer of “teen-focused businesses,” has raised $7 million in a second round of funding, according to a regulatory filing noted by PE Week. We just looked at the Tagged site, and are a tad surprised it is ... |
| Nov 11, 2005 | A Profile of Tagworld | Santa Monica based Tagworld has been quietly beta testing its product for a few months, and officially opened its doors earlier this week. They now have 75,000 members and are growing by thousands per day. The funny thing is that I had neve... |
| Congrats to WeGame on Acquisition by TAGGED | Today, WeGame announced they’ve been acquired by TAGGED . This acquisition is a great outcome for Founder Jared Kim, his team and investors. Personally, I couldn’t be more thrilled for the whole team. In addition, we’ve known Greg Tseng (TA... |
