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After attracting millions of youngsters, Pheed finds it way to Android

Pheed, a social-networking service designed to meet all the multimedia needs of today's mobile user, has launched its application for Android.

The Android release trails Pheed's official debut back in November on Apple's iOS platform.

Since then, the Los Angeles-based bootstrapped startup has racked up "a few million users," around 20 percent of whom are teens ages 15 to 17. And more than 42 percent of app users are between the ages of 17 and 22, which means Pheed is already immensely popular with high schoolers and college kids and may be one of the … Read more

New app ups Pheed's challenge to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube

Pheed is a celebrity-infused startup that -- as CEO OD Kobo tells it -- took the best parts of the most popular social networks and put them together in one platform. Throw in a bit of Hollywood flair and add adoring fans, and it's a network that attracted about 1 million users in its first two weeks of existence.

The company is hoping to make those numbers stick with a new iPhone app, released today. Pheed isn't releasing its current number of users, so it's unclear if the "pheeding" frenzy is still going on, but … Read more

Twitter restores connection for hot new social startup Pheed

Users of Pheed, a new social media network that has caught the attention of celebrities and their fans, can once again access their profile pages through Twitter's account connection after losing access for about 48 hours.

Pheed 's chief executive, O.D. Kobo, said there's still no word about why the access was shut off in the first place, but the companies are in touch.

"[We] are very happy they gave us a chance again and think it was very cool of them," Kobo said.

Pheed is a self-described real-time, multimedia platform that lets its users … Read more