We’re not tracking every site that adds log ins using Facebook or Twitter but when the site is a few months away from putting up a paywall—and it’s one of the top news sites— it’s worth a little attention. New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) execs have insisted for months…

Almost a year after reports first came out that Facebook and MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) were working on a deal that would let MySpace users share content on Facebook, the two companies have finally made the tie-up official, saying that MySpace users will now be able to “sync” their updates with…

BreakingNewsOnline is discontinuing its iPhone app as it looks to concentrate more on B2B services, the company announced. The iPhone app was launched over a year ago as an adjunct to its “@BreakingNews” Twitter account that BNO News managed until December 2009, when it handed over management to MSNBC.

News aggregator Daylife is making some additions to its executive team as it looks to build on the partnership it forged with Getty Images last year. The New York-based company has hired former Salon CEO Chris Neimeth and Marc Hedlund, who was the former head of Wesabe, a community site…

With minimal additional investment and no extra hires, fan-based SB Nation is launching 20 new regional sports sites during the next few weeks. The first six went live after midnight: New York, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Arizona and DC, where the startup is based. The look is similar; all are based…

Mainstreet Connect, the latest entrant into the hyperlocal news space, has raised a $3.97 million first round, according to an SEC filing. Last month, the Connecticut-based company launched four sites in the northeast within the past three months. This is the start of what founder Carll Tucker event hopes will…

Huffington Post President and Chief Revenue Officer Greg Coleman says that he’s on target to reach his goal of doubling the news aggregator’s ad sales this year thanks to two things that hadn’t existed at the company before he arrived. The first was the hiring of a sales staff; secondly,…

More M&A may be on the way in the freelance content space, although on a much more modest scale than yesterday’s Yahoo-Associated Content deal. True/Slant, a freelance news startup that encourages “entrepreneurial journalism,” was raising a second round but wound up with sales interest by so-called strategic buyers. We initially…

The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) is dipping its toes into the blog network pool again, with the launch of a new network focused on state government news. Operating under the PostPolitics umbrella site, the paper says the network will serve as a “compendium of some of the best state-based political…

At least two startups—and a long list of prominent investors—are now betting that people will happily put aside any privacy concerns in order to share updates with friends about what they are buying: Swipely has raised $7.5 million in a first round of funding, less than a month after rival…

Citizen-J site NowPublic has laid off several members of its dozen-person staff, paidContent has been told, confirming portions of an earlier post by Reportr.net. In an e-mail message to paidContent, NowPublic’s founder Leonard Brody said that, contrary to the earlier report that the site was headed for its demise, NowPublic…

The Huffington Post is launching a “Twitter edition” that is intended to serve as an extension and a distinct entity from the main news and opinion site, the company told paidContent. The primary purpose is to harness the social networking aspects of the site to create a real-time news service…

Longtime Digg CEO Jay Adelson is stepping down, saying in a blog post that went live just now that he is “ready to incubate some new business ideas.” He’s being replaced temporarily by founder Kevin Rose. Adelson, who has been CEO since 2005, emphasizes that he’s leaving because the site…

Nearly two months after Google’s rocky introduction of ‘Buzz,’ the sharing service remains under fire from privacy advocates; eleven congressmen have written a letter to the chairman of the FTC urging the agency to investigate complaints about the service—and, perhaps more ominously for Google (NSDQ: GOOG), also look into the…

A year after the Big Three car makers looked like they could wind up as just the Big Two, auto ad spending has recovered somewhat, and General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are expected to shift more dollars to online. Huffington Post president and chief revenue officer Greg Coleman is sensing…

The NYTCo’s local content efforts are getting a quick boost from hyperlocal newswire Fwix. In a sense, the deal with Fwix can buttress the NYTimes.com’s New York metro area blogs program, The Local, which it began last year. The deal enables the distribution of Fwix’s technology and hyperlocal content across…

It took just two years for Gabe Rivera to have four verticals, including tech “front page” Techmeme, running off his algorithm for discovering and highlighting news. The fourth site, BallBug, launched for opening day in 2006. It took four years to add one—Mediagazer, a site launching today to aggregate news…

Arkayne, which makes a plug-in designed to automatically add related links to web pages, has raised $1 million in an angel round. The plug-in scans all of the posts on a website in order to automatically suggest related items that a visitor should read. A version for bloggers with “moderate…

iFollo, a site that lets members share stories about their run-ins with celebrities, has raised $1 million in a funding round from real estate investor Robert Trump, who is also a backer of game publisher ZeniMax Media. On iFollo, anybody can post an anecdote about meeting a celebrity and rate…