David Kaplan
Oct 25, 2010 12:28 PM
After a year and a half, Chas Edwards is exiting Digg as its chief revenue officer to join photo ad network Pixazza. The departure comes amid a wider change in Digg’s “product focus” along with plans to layoff 25 staffers, or roughly 37 percent of its employees, according to a…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jul 19, 2010 12:25 PM
Pixazza, the Google-backed photo ad network, has raised $12 million in a new funding round. Pixazza’s technology adds ads to photos which pop up when a viewer mouses over them. The ads typically show where users can purchase the objects found in the photo; for instance, somebody who mouses over…
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Rory Maher
Mar 25, 2009 11:10 AM
Startup Pixazza has raised $5.75 million in a first round that includes investors August Capital, CMEA Ventures, Foundation Capital and most interestingly, from Google (NSDQ: GOOG), according to peHub. Angel investors include Ron Conway, former *eBay* COO Maynard Webb, and Facebook CFO Gideon Yu. Founded in 2008, Pixazza has a…
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