Ambitious Online Bankin...

Banksimple has just raised $2.9 million in a Series A round to fund their ambitious alternative online banking startup for full-service, fee-free banking. The round includes investments from First Round Capital, IA Ventures and Village Ventures, a collection of industry veterans with...

Announcing MashBash Blo...

Mashable is excited to announce MashBash BlogWorld, the opening party for this year’s BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas on October 15-16. To kick off the Expo, we’ll be hosting the first night’s official party at Haze at Aria Hotel. We would love for you to...

BankSimple Deposits $3....

New York City startup BankSimple today disclosed that it raised its first venture funding in a round led by First Round Capital , Roger Ehrenberg’s IA Ventures , and Village Ventures , along with seed investors SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Nauiokas Park (Amy Nauiokas and Sean Parker),...

Inflection Raises $30 M...

Inflection , a company aimed to democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures . Founded in 2006, Inflection aggregates public records and data from past and present and currently operates...

Adioso, Flight Search F...

YCombinator -funded Adioso today launches its third iteration as an online destination for adventurous travelers who want to take vacations but are not constrained by specific days or even places. Yes, the online travel space is saturated, but the more mainstay search services like Kayak...

Announcing the UN Week ...

In conjunction with the Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit , we are proud to be working with the United Nations Foundation and 92nd Street Y to host the first ever UN Week Digital Media Lounge . The conversation about the world’s biggest challenges no longer belongs to a small set...

YouTube to Live Stream ...

Tonight, U.S. President Barack Obama is slated to address America from the Oval Office via a live stream on YouTube, a speech during which he is expected to announce the end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq. Before you check out the live stream tonight at 8 p.m. EST, YouTube is offering...

AOL Answers Sees The Li...

Next November, it will be three years since AOL acquired Israeli startup Yedda in an effort to foray into the online Q&A service business. Today, Yedda is finally graduating to a full-fledged AOL property with the ‘launch’ of AOL Answers (or Aol Answers, still not sure...

The Online Video Debate...

Editor’s note : The following guest post is by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the CEO of  WatchMojo , a producer and distributor of premium video content. Follow him on Twitter @ashkan or @WatchMojo Last week, Erick posted an article on TechCrunch titled “Industry Insiders Say Online...

Survey Says Facebook Fe...

In a rather small survey conducted by a young psychologist, Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults. In a survey of 100 college students, young people with narcissistic personality traits were shown to exhibit Facebook...