Sequoia’s Moritz Thinks Digital Investors Have Gone Cuckoo
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So, is there a new tech bubble? One man who may know is Michael Moritz, the celebrated veteran Sequoia partner who invested in companies lik… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-26-11: Google Sprint NFC; Chinese Android; O2; New Fund
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details spill about Google’s not-so-secret mobile wallet launch today; worrying stat… Read more »
MSLO Shakeup: Blackstone Advises On Possible Sale; Oxygen’s Gersh To Be CEO
A flurry of announcements came out of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) were dropped this morning, pointing to several new directi… Read more »
Confirmed: Twitter Buying TweetDeck For ‘Power Users’, ‘Change Inevitable’
After refusing to confirm the deal rumoured over recent weeks, Twitter and TweetDeck have now announced the latter’s acquisition by the form… Read more »
Punktilio, Another Social Marketing Specialist, Bought By Digital Agency
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Here’s the fourth social media marketing M&A news we’ve written so far this week (and it’s only Wednesday)…
Punktilio, an agency co-found… Read more »
VC Round-Up: Brightpearl, Travelmenu.ru, MobiCart
Brightpearl, a Brighton-based cloud apps suite for small businesses, is taking $5 million in first-round funding from previous backers Notio… Read more »
Buzzlogic Raises $7.8 Million Third Round; Plans To Double Sales Force
Buzzlogic CEO Dave Hills wants the company to be known for more than just being a monitor of social media chatter. The San Francisco company… Read more »
GigaOm Raises $6 Million Fifth Round; Will Expand Subscriptions, Events
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Less than a year after its last round, GigaOm is upping its investment take to $15 million.
The $6 million new round, led by Reed Elsevier… Read more »
Tesco’s Clubcard Operator Buying Online Brand Advocacy Firm BzzAgent
Another big deal in corporate adoption of social media marketing – Tesco’s majority-owned Dunnhumby consumer analyst is buying 10-year-old s… Read more »
Lead Gen Provider Yodle Buys Local SEO Specialist ProfitFuel
Local online marketing firm Yodle acquired ProfitFuel, a company that provides search engine optimization services to small businesses. The… Read more »
More UK & Ireland Tech VC In Fewer Hands In Q1
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The number of UK and Irish tech companies taking venture funding fell below 2009 to a four-year low, according to figures published by the i… Read more »
Eqal Seeks $3.5 Million, Continues Shift To Social Media Marketing
Eqal, the one-time online video studio that got considerable notice for web series Lonelygirl15, is looking to raise $3.5 million as its con… Read more »
Conversocial Takes £1.5 Million For Social Marketing Monitoring
Barely an hour goes past these days without me catching mention of the awesome opportunity “social media” present to marketers, broadcasters… Read more »
Twitter Acquires TweetDeck For Over $40 Million
It’s not official yet, but Twitter filed papers on Monday to acquire the TweetDeck microblog client for over $40 million in cash and stock,… Read more »
Social Games Developer CrowdStar Raises $23 Million From Time Warner, Intel
CrowdStar, a social games developer that has attracted past attention of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), has closed its first-ever round of institut… Read more »
PwC: This Is Not A Bubble, Valuations May Be Justified
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Facebook for $80 billion? LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) at $9 billion?
“There does not appear to be a bubble forming for the technology sector as a… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-23-11: Foxconn; iPhone 5 Curve; Rooted Android; Paramount
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details on the Foxconn factory explosion; reports of a curvaceous future for the i… Read more »
Nielsen To Complete Purchase Of Brainwave Researcher NeuroFocus
Nielsen is set to acquire the remaining stake in NeuroFocus, a company that applies brainwave research to advertising, programming and messa… Read more »
Where Now For Waterstone’s In The E-Book Migration?
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HMV’s sale of Waterstone’s, one of the UK’s leading booksellers, removes some weight from around HMV’s neck, but doesn’t necessarily set Wat… Read more »
HMV Sells Bookseller Waterstone’s For £53 Million
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HMV (LSE: HMV) has sold its Waterstone’s book chain to a fund controlled by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53 ($85.79)m. Read more »
Updated: Liberty Media Offers $1 Billion For Barnes & Noble; Would Buy 70 Percent
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Bankrupt Borders needs a sale the most but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which put itself in play last August, is the book retailer with a ser… Read more »
@ pcMobile: USV’s Albert Wenger: Mobile Phone Equals Personal Identity
What are venture capital firms looking for in mobile startups? Think emotional value and rethink the economics of content, Albert Wenger, a… Read more »
Glam Media Buys UK Moms Site For Broader ‘Family’ Vertical
Glam Media has acquired Britain’s BabyWorld community site, a purchase that’s meant to both spur the company’s growth in the “family/parenti… Read more »
Yahoo Buys Online Ad Startup 5to1 For $28 Million
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is paying $28 million for 5to1, an online ad marketplace that lets top brand advertisers purchase unsold premium inventor… Read more »
Eventbrite Raises $50 Million For Push Into Larger Events
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Eventbrite, a popular service which lets people set up webpages to promote their events and also sell tickets, has raised $50 million in a f… Read more »
VC Round-Up: Simfy, EnQii & Minicim, Uma
Several fundings in digital media today…
– Simfy: The German web-based freemium unlimited-music service, like We7, has raised €10 mill… Read more »
Time Warner Cable Adds Funding To BlackArrow Financing Round
BlackArrow, a company that provided video-on-demand ad insertions for DVRs and other “advanced TV” systems, has added Time Warner Cable (NYS… Read more »
PubMatic Acquires ReviNet; Deal Adds 57 Publishers To The SSP’s System
Sell-side platform PubMatic has acquired ReviNet, a smaller publisher advertising optimizer. The deal, terms of which were undisclosed, are… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-17-11: Sprint; HP; Vodafone Android; Apple Launches
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Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Who would buy Sprint?; HP (NYSE: HPQ) reports early; Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) pushes a chea… Read more »
Publicis, WPP Make Further Digital Buys, Google Mobile Partnership
To Digitas, Razorfish, VivaKi and Publicis Modem, add Rosetta. Publicis, one of the big four global advertising groups, is buying the Prince… Read more »
Why The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Should Not Come To Pass
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Even though the growth of the modern mobile computing market is moving at whirlwind speed, one of the main reasons why it didn’t happen earl… Read more »
We R Interactive Raises $5 Million To Make Online Games
Less than a year after taking its first venture funding, We R Interactive, a would-be web game maker, is taking a $5 million second round fu… Read more »
Facebook Marketer Buddy Media Acquires Social Analytics Provider Spinback
With Facebook expected to outpace Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) as the biggest outlet for display ad dollars in the U.S. this year, any company that ha… Read more »
WebMediaBrands Buys Inside Network For $14 Million
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WebMediaBrands (NSDQ: WEBM), which has built up a portfolio of social media-focused news sites and conferences over the last several years,… Read more »
Wall Street Weighs In On Microsoft’s Purchase Of Skype
Why is Microsoft paying $8.5 billion for Skype when less than two years ago the VOIP service was valued at under $2 billion? Asked about tha… Read more »
Social Games Developer Funzio Raises $20 Million
Funzio, a social games developer best known for its hit title Crime City, has raised $20 million in a first round of funding led by IDG Vent… Read more »
Clearspring Raises $20 Million To Build Up Real-Time Data Services
Social content distributor Clearspring has raised a $20 million fourth round as it expands offices and is continuing to build up its staff.… Read more »
It’s Official: Microsoft Acquires Skype For $8.5 Billion In Cash
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Making its biggest bet yet on something it didn’t build, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) confirmed today that it is paying $8.5 billion in cash for S… Read more »
Updated: Microsoft Reportedly Close To A $7 Billion-Plus Purchase Of Skype
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which has been quiet on the deal front for several years now, is reportedly set to change that in a big way, picking… Read more »
Music Recommender Official.FM Closes $8 Million Round
Official.FM, which bills itself as a DIY music club aimed at content producers, has raised $8 million as the startup works to build up its p… Read more »
