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Altly, Dmitry Shapiro's New Startup, To Take On Facebook

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Dmitry Shapiro , the founder of Veoh and most recently the CTO of MySpace Music, is looking to build an alternative to Facebook at his new startup, Altly. The stealth mode startup has yet to detail its plans, however, Shapiro gave a hint of its plans in a Twitter post this morning.

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Debating Some of the Issues of Our Time with Dmitry Shapiro

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The last startup he did raised $70 million for the online video space before being sued for more than $1 billion by Universal. I’ll let you watch the video to find out what we thought , but we covered: Why YouTube took off when Veoh and others didn’t. We had a chance to discuss many issues of our day.

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Uberpaper, Headed by Dmitry Shapiro, Takes On News Reading

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Dmitry Shapiro , the former founder and CEO of Veoh, and later head of MySpace Music and Facebook alternative Altly, said Thursday that he has launched Uberpaper , a new, online news reading service to help people read and navigate news.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Richard De Silva started off as a journalist with the Washington Post after growing up in D.C. In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35).

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Facebook Competitor Altly Becomes Anybeat

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Altly , the startup headed by Dmitry Shapiro which is developing an alternative to Facebook, said Monday that it has renamed the firm to AnyBeat.com. Shapiro was formerly the founder of Veoh Networks, and head of MySpace Music. The new name was not a surprise, as Shapiro had said the company would be renaming itself before launch.

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Altly Reveals Seed Investors

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Shapiro was the former founder of Veoh Networks and head of MySpace Music. Altly detailed its plans to create an alternative to Facebook last week, complaining in a lengthy manifesto from Shapiro that an alternative to Facebook was sorely needed due to privacy and other issues with the social networking site. READ MORE>>.

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Altly Posts Anti-Facebook Manifesto, Gets Funding

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Los Angeles-based Altly , the latest startup of Dmitry Shapiro , the founder of Veoh and former CTo of MySpace Music, has officially thrown down the gauntlet, saying in a blog post this week that it there is a need for an alternative to Facebook--and the firm is going to create that alternative.

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