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• Tagged.com Wants To Help You Meet New People

• Jan 3
  2012

• Tagged.com CEO Greg Tseng knows how to face reality. The company, which has been around for seven years, used to compete directly with MySpace and then Facebook. But, said Tseng, “In 2007 we decided relatively early on in the game…

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• Tagged Acquires Facebook Competitor Hi5

• Dec 14
  2011

• Hi5, once one of the top three global social networks, was acquired by San Francisco-based Tagged on Wednesday, as some of the remnants of the social network space clear out in the wake of Facebook’s overwhelming dominance.

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• Underdog Social Network, Tagged, Is Building A “Pandora For People”

• Dec 8
  2011

• Today, the valley’s underdog social network Tagged acquired startup Topicmarks to help it improve its people-discovery algorithm.
  Topicmarks has machine learning technology, which takes long form content and summarizes it (so you don’t have to read all of the text).

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• Infographic: 7 Companies Who Made Major Pivots in Strategy

• Dec 6
  2011

• From the folks who brought you the Pivot Conference and Hasai Marketing comes an infographic that tells the story of 7 companies that, you guessed it, made significant pivots in strategy to successful ends. Included are gaming companies, social networking sites and group buying pioneers.…

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• America’s Most Promising Companies

• Nov 30
  2011

• These privately held up-and-comers have compelling business models, strong management teams, marquee customers, strategic partners and precious investment capital.

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• How Tagged Made a Turnaround for Growth

• Oct 20
  2011

• Maybe you’ve heard this story before: brilliant Harvard students, an early social network run out of a dorm room, a move to Silicon Valley in 2004 on a quest for world domination. Or, maybe not. “We spent three long years not…

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• Social Discovery Meets Gaming Discovery: Tagged Buys WeGame

• Sep 21
  2011

• 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…

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• How Big Is the “Social Discovery” Opportunity?

• Aug 30
  2011

• There’s a category of Web sites and mobile apps that describe themselves as “social discovery” services, aiming to connect us with new people without the assumption that we may want to be in a serious relationship with them.
  These include…

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• Groupon, Twitter, other tech firms grapple with hypergrowth

• Aug 10
  2011

• Use of open office spaces. It often comes down to something that simple — with no executive offices — to foster collaboration. It is a tack followed by online payment service Square, social-networking site Tagged and mobile-video-calling service Tango. Conference…

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• Tagged Launches Social Discovery Mobile App With Real-Time Chat

• Aug 10
  2011

• The online dating market is heating up and a plethora of new services have arrived on the scene. Tagged, a large social network focused on helping others meet new people recently unveiled free iOS and Android apps to help others…

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