Just how big and fast has Facebook grown? The social network serves more than 400 million users who login to Facebook everyday out of total membership base of over 800 million. 75% of Facebook users live outside the U.S. and Facebook is available in 70 languages. In less than 7 years, Facebook has received 2.34 billion dollars of funding. That’s a lot of growth for an Internet platform.


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Steven Fruchter and I have been trading emails back and forth discussing his social venture — Get.com.  So far, Fruchter has been working with his partner Jake Gold to generate funding and they have succeeded in raising $1 million in seed funding from undisclosed angel investors. Now, Fruchter and Gold are ready to take on the social media world with Get.com.


Read More: New Product Discovery Service Emerges with $1M in Funding

SMCEDU, an education initiative of Social Media Club focused on improving the quality of Social Media education in Universities and empowering its community of Social Media professors, today announced its new Board of Advisors. Consisting of 15 community leaders from around the United States, the advisory board is tasked with determining the priorities for SMCEDU, assisting in securing grants for its programs, identifying key insights for success and sharing their insights with other educators [...]

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The story is a common one: an idealist artist moves to a major urban center (say, New York City) where they expect to be discovered but then must walk the shakey tightrope of balancing their financial and artistic ambitions. This is a tale that's been well tread in film and literature but Art Wars, an indie game currently wrapping up a pledging campaign on Kickstarter, tells it in an interactive manner for the first time.Art Wars takes the form of an adventure game where success is measured by t [...]

Read More: Last Call for “Art Wars” Indie Game Funding

Microblogging platform Tumblr is pursuing venture capital firms for another generous amount of money at a very substantial valuation.


Read More: Tumblr Looking at $800 Million Valuation for Growth Funding