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DECEMBER 16, 2009

West Hollywood-based Geni.com , the online family tree and genealogy site backed by the Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures, told its users today that it has created a new "Geni Lab" for experimental features from the firm. Tags: geni family tree genealogy translation software. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

West Hollywood-based Geni , the online family tree and history site, said Wednesday afternoon that it has rolled out a new, application programming interface for the site. According to Geni, the new API is aimed at allowing users to develop third-party tools and application.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Hollywood-based Geni , the venture-backed firm which has developed an online, Web 2.0-style Geni said that users can now connect their Facebook account to Geni, allowing users to use Facebook's standard invite tools to invite relatives to join Geni's family tree serviecs. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

West Hollywood-based Geni is expanding the number of paid tiers of its service, saying Tuesday evening that it has launched a new tier of its service, Geni Plus. The family tree and family history site said the new Geni Plus family tree research service is aimed at "casual genealogists", and will cost $4.95

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MAY 10, 2010

Geni said it also allows users to customize "almost every aspect" of the posters before printing. Geni is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund. Tags: geni genealogy family tree poster. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Taking a clue from Twitter, North Hollywood-based Geni , the family history and tree site, said Thursday that it has added a new "Follow" feature to the site. Geni said that the new follow feature allows users to follow people and profiles on the site, allowing user sto get notification on changes or updates from those users or profiles.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based Geni , which operates an online site for graphing out family trees and tracking family history, announced Wednesday afternoon that it has released a new revisions feature for Geni Pro users. Geni is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 26, 2010

Geni is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund, and was started by ex-PayPal founder David Sacks. Tags: geni family tree genealogy poster printed. The poster service--which takes data from Geni.com's service and turn it into printed, 16x20 posters--was originally announced on May 10th. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Geni is backed by Charles River Ventures and Founders Fund. Tags: geni genealogy family tree web2. Among the changes, the firm said that it has made two of the firm's "Pro" features--Statistics and Lists--free to all of its users. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based Geni , the online family tree and genealogy site, is swizzling its membership plans again, as the company looks to fine tune its business model. Geni has been shuffling its various pricing tiers since August, when the firm started encouraging users to move off its free service to one of its paid tiers. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The acquisition today of Los Angeles-based family tree and genealogy site Geni has one big benefit: its users now have full access to the service, without having to pay for premium features. Geni.com also said that it will now let users download free family trees to their computer at no charge, and remove ads completely from the site.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Los Angeles-based Geni , which operates an online site for tracking your family tree, said Friday that it has rolled out a new widget which allows users to show how big Geni's family tree is.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In the case of the kid getting much (much) larger than its parent, Yammer , the one time spinout of Los Angeles-based genealogy and family tree website Geni , has now squarely out-raised venture capital than its parent firm, saying Wednesday that it has raised an $85M funding round. Geni is, however, an original investor in Yammer.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Geni , the online family tree and genealogy site, suffered an unexpected outage over the weekend, the firm reported Monday evening. Geni said that it had an issue with its PostgreSQL database, which it says it is investigating. Geni is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based Geni , the family tree and family history site, said over the weekend that it has added a new social feature to connect Geni with Facebook. The company said its new Facebook Social Sharing feature allows users to share their public Geni activities with friends and family on Facebook.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

That big acquisition of Los Angeles family tree site Geni had an unwanted side effect: it took down the site for nearly five hours, Geni reports. Geni said it suffered unexpected downtime, starting at 7 a.m. Thursday morning, running until 10:40 a.m.,

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MAY 10, 2021

Akash Nigam, founder and chief executive of Venice-based Genies Inc., said he wasn’t entirely sure what a nonfungible token was until last summer when he met with Dapper Labs Inc. Chief Executive Roham Gharegozlou.

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MAY 19, 2011

West Hollywood-based Geni , the online family tree and family history service, said Thursday that it has promoted a number of employees, including naming two executives. Geni said it has named Justin Balthrop as its Chief Technology Officer, and named Michael Stangel as Vice President of Engineering.

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MAY 19, 2011

West Hollywood-based Geni , the online family tree and family history service, said Thursday that it has promoted a number of employees, including naming two executives. Geni said it has named Justin Balthrop as its Chief Technology Officer, and named Michael Stangel as Vice President of Engineering.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Los Angeles-based Geni , the Web 2.0 According to Geni, all Geni Pro subscriptions now include unlimited virtual gifts, the firm's virtual items which can be sent to other members of the service. Geni is venture backed by the Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures. Tags: gifts web2 tree family genealogy geni.

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APRIL 13, 2009

Hollywood-based online family networking and family tree site Geni officially announced late last week that the firm has launched a new, Facebook application. According to Geni, the new application will allow its users to access such features as building family trees, getting family news and birthday reminders, and more. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

We sat down with David to catch up on what Geni and Yammer are doing, plus got his insights into entrepreneurship and the Paypal mystique. David Sacks: As you know, Geni is creating a family tree of the whole world, and layering in a family social network and family wiki on top of that. What's the ultimate business model behind Geni?

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JULY 1, 2016

Burbank-based family tree software developer Geni --which is now part of MyHeritage--said late Thursday afternoon that it has added DNA testing to its service, letting its users test their DNA for a more accurate family tree. Geni also said it would use the DNA results to help for matching previously unknown relatives.

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JULY 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based startup Knowledge Genie is launching a new, online site today which allows people to publish, share, and sell their knowledge online. The service is available based on a subscription to users, who can use the tool to charge people for access to the information in their "genie" via payment systems like Paypal.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Hollywood-based Geni , which operates an online site for networking with family and tracking family trees, released a new feature Wednesday that allows its users to filter out cousins on the site. According to Geni, it has a new "hide" filter which will help users find cousins using the site that they haven't met yet. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 27, 2009

Hollywood-based Geni , an online site that allows users to share family trees and network with relatives and family, is the latest Web 2.0 According to Geni, its new pro accounts will cost $50.00 Tags: geni web2 genealogy family history. site to add "pro" accounts to their services. annually, or $4.95 READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 1, 2009

Los Angeles-based Geni , the online family tree and social networking site, has enhanced the firm's search features, telling its users that it is now allowing them to search any profile on the site, regardless of whether those profiles are connected into a user's family tree or not. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based Geni rolled out a number of enhancements to the site, plus told its users late Wednesday evening that it will now allow all of its users a 14 day, free trial of the firm's premium offering, Geni Pro. Geni operates an online genealogy and family networking site; the firm launched its premium offering in March.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based genealogy and family networking site Geni has rolled out a new "Family Finder" feature, the firm said Friday, allowing users to import addresses from Microsoft Outlook, web email programs like Google's Gmail and Yahoo, or other sources. Geni operates a Web 2.0

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APRIL 24, 2009

West Hollywood-based Geni said this week that the firm has improved the firm's site, which allows users to create family trees and network with family members. Geni's Web 2.0 Tags: geni genealogy family tree networking social web2. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

West Hollywood-based Geni, and instant messaging spinout Yammer have both raised $5M in funding from the firms' existing backers, Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund, according to regulatory filings and reports. Geni and Yammer have both been fundraising since the middle of last year. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Los Angeles-based Geni , an online genealogy and social networking site, has tightened up the firm's privacy settings, saying last night that it has added new settings which allows users to restrict viewing of profiles of kids younger than 13, and changed the firm's "family groups" defaults to a smaller set of relatives. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 9, 2009

West Hollywood-based Geni , the venture-backed, online family tree and networking site, said today that it has added a number of new features to its site, including the ability to search for similar profiles on the site, and improved access to popular features. Geni operates a service which lets users create their own Web 2.0-style

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NOVEMBER 10, 2008

According to Geni, it has completely revised its gifts, adding better quality graphics, more selection, and a focus on holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, and other special events. Geni runs a Web 2.0-style style site to help people create family trees and connect with relatives through social networking features.

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JANUARY 21, 2009

Los Angeles-based Geni, an online genealogy and social networking site, upgraded the firm's services last night, adding new statistics features and gift accounts. According to the firm, it now allows users to view statistics on profiles, and has added the ability of users to give "Geni Pro" accounts as a gift to relatives. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 1, 2009

West Hollywood-based family tree site Geni has rolled out a slew of updates for the service, saying today that it has added features to help users collaborate with others, map out locations, and see recent photos. Tags: geni genealogy family tree social networking web2. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. What is the idea behind Knowledge Genie? We call this a "Genie," and you can build a Genie using Knowledge Genie. The plans range up to approximately $190.

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