On today’s Morning Media Menu (MP3 link), GalleyCat editor Jason Boog joined me for a look at Evernote’s $1 billion valuation and Tumblr’s decision to bite the bullet and start selling ads – at $25,000 apiece.
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LinkedIn Spends $119 Million on SlideShare — the YouTube of Slide Shows (Mashable) Professional social network LinkedIn on Thursday snagged presentation-sharing platform SlideShare for $118.75 million. SlideShare now attracts 29 million monthly visitors, while LinkedIn sees 107 million unique monthly visitors. GigaOM The acquisition, which involves 45 percent cash and 55 percent stock, gives LinkedIn another way to connect its users, who are often communicating and promoting themselves through PowerPoint presentations, slide shows and other content. TechCrunch The move makes a lot of sense from a product point of view. SlideShare recently deepened its integration with LinkedIn, and the two companies have compared their relationship to chocolate and peanut butter for professionals. The San Francisco Chronicle The Mountain View-Calif. based company, whose shares have more than doubled since its initial public offering last May, said membership increased to 161 million from 150 million in the fourth quarter. The company is signing up more professionals for its subscription services and attracting advertisers who want to reach the growing user base. CNBC LinkedIn reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company posted first-quarter earnings excluding items of 15 cents per share on revenue of $189 million. Net income rose to $5 million, from $2.1 million in the same quarter a year ago. Read more
Evernote, the company known for its notetaking and archiving apps, announced a $70 million Series D investment led by Meritech Capital and CBC Capital at a $1 billion valuation.
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Evernote is one of the most useful services around. I use it everyday on a variety of devices using both its web interface as well as native clients which are available for a number of desktop and mobile devices. Evernote just updated its Windows Phone app to take advantage of that platforms unique features.
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People who use Evernote on an Android phone should take notice of the version 3.3 update released this week. It adds sharing and image editing to the already powerful app’s feature mix. And, to make life a bit more interesting, Evernote now provides a separate widget for the Android home screen.
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Evernote’s free cloud notes services and free apps for a number of mobile platforms has always been a great productivity tool and a great deal. Evernote’s $45 per year premium service adds a number of features over and above what the free service offers. One of these premium features just made the move to the free service.
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The Evernote for Android 3.2 update brings a feature that can’t be deployed on the iPhone version yet: Add graphical annotation to a note using Skitch for Android.
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Evernote announced the grand prize winner of their first developer competition at the first Evernote Trunk Conference in San Francisco last week. And, it is a good example of using NFC (Near Field Communications) for something other than mobile commerce.
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The latest attempt to sort through the clutter of available online news content is version 2.0 of News360, an app for the iPad, the iPhone, the BlackBerry PlayBook, Windows Phone and Android devices, and the Web that uses semantic analysis to analyze users’ activity on social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, and Evernote to select relevant news.
