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funding thumb StyleCaster raises $4 Million in Series A

Fashion platform, StyleCaster has raised $4 Million in Series A for its fashion community. The round was provided investor Dan Gilbert who is founder and chairman of Quicken Loans. StyleCaster will use the funds to improve content and develop mobile and web based apps as well as boost advertising.

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image thumb1 Twitter makes changes to its interface: Easier to connect with Tweeples

Twitter is working on to improve its User Interface, something i for one had always desired. Though it isn’t an entire overhaul of the site’s layout but it has made the followers and following page more interactive and easier. This makes it easier for one to follow, unfollow, block or simply send a reply to someone. That is added with letting you view your followers and those you are following in a list view or as expanded. Overall it appears much pleasant than the other wise simple but sickening layout it previously had. I appreciate this change anticipating that some bigger changes in the layout are about to make way.

image thumb MySpace continues to lose execs: SVP Engineering Allen Hurf calls it quits

There has been quite a stir in both Yahoo and MySpace with layoffs and execs calling it quits. Over the weekend another one of MySpace’s execs, its SVP Engineering Allen Hurf made his exit. That wasn’t a call from MySpace but the Hurf seeing the condition at MySpace decided to pack his stuff before he was asked to do so. We aren’t sure why exactly he left the job he had been working at for more than four years but his own tweet states that he might be looking to begin something of his own.