John Doerr's quarter-billion dollar bet on the future of social - Fortune Tech
Kleiner Perkins thinks we're in a third wave of technology. Doerr, Zuckerberg, Bezos and Pyncus are throwing a "party" with a the new $250 million sFund, in order to ride it. The last time venture capitalist John Doerr opined that a technology wave was

Yahoo mail gets redesign, adds more social networking integration - YAHOO!
In an effort to keep up with competing Web-based e-mail services – like Google’s constantly evolving Gmail – as well as the growing reliance on social networks, Yahoo this morning launched a redesigned beta version of its own e-mail service . The

Yahoo revises Web mail: social networking, content-based ads, still no free downloading - Washington Post
At midnight, Yahoo introduced a redesigned version of its Web-mail site, Yahoo Mail . And then a funny thing happened: Nothing. No Twitter chatter, no Facebook comments by friends, no late-night posts on the usual tech blogs. The Internet can be so cruel

Stealth social networking startup CafeBots scores $5M from sFund - Reuters
Stealth social networking startupCafeBotscame into the light in a big way today, after the firm announced it has closed an initial funding round of $5 million from early stage venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’sbrand newsFund. Palo

Social networking to grow as mobility soars - IT Pro
Those who hate the likes of Twitter and Facebook look away now, for leading figures say the only way is up for social networking. "Two to five years from now, the whole question of what other social networks you use will be moot, because it will all be