The Value Of Virtual Currency: The Real Price Of Super Rewards Was Closer to $50 Million
Last week saw an unusual burst of acquisition activity among Web companies. Yahoo bought email add-on Xoopit for about $20 million, Nokia bought social address book provider Cellity, and overshadowing them all was Amazon’s $928 million purchase of Zappos.
But the week started off with another acquisition which quickly got lost in all [...]
Cooliris’ revenue chief: Ad market tanking? Not for us
I’ve spent a lot of time writing about how a startup called Cooliris continues to build a fun experience for exploring video and other media with its 3D wall, but I’ve heard a lot less about the business side. Recently Shashi Seth, the Palo Alto, Calif., company’s chief revenue officer (formerly head of monetization at [...]
Are Bing Users Twice As Likely To Click On An Ad Than Google Users?
Are people who search on Bing more commercial than Google searchers? According to a study by search-advertising network Chitika, visitors who arrive at sites from organic search results on Bing are 55 percent more likely to click on an ad than if they arrived from Google.
Chitika looked at the clickthrough rates from [...]
Will Twitter really make $1.54 billion in 2013?
Twitter has a business model after all — and one that it’s betting may go from bringing in $400,000 this quarter to $1.54 billion in four years, according to documents leaked earlier today.
Projections that distant are not particularly useful, but they give a hint of Twitter’s ambitions. The company has been mum so far on how [...]
iTunes on your Blackberry: DoubleTwist seems to be popular so far, now enters Japan’s cell phone market
DoubleTwist, a universal media management desktop application for Macs and PCs, not only has a clever marketing team behind it but also seems to be something a lot of people have been waiting for. The free software, which works like a multi-platform version of iTunes with a social networking component, has been downloaded hundreds of [...]
Multi-Platform Media Sync Software DoubleTwist Gains “Hundreds Of Thousands Downloads”, Is Now Available in Japan
DoubleTwist, a universal media management desktop application for Macs and PCs, not only has a clever marketing team behind it but also seems to be something a lot of people have been waiting for. The free software, which works like a multi-platform version of iTunes with a social networking component, has been downloaded hundreds of [...]
Twitter CRM Service, CoTweet, Raises Series A Funding; Launches Public Beta.
CoTweet, the web based Twitter collaboration platform for businesses, has announced a Series A round of funding totaling $1.1 million. The investors are Baseline Ventures, Founders Fund, First Round Capital, SV Angel, Maples Investments and Freestyle Capital.
CoTweet helps companies and brands, like Whole Foods, Microsoft, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, and the City of San Francisco’s 311 manage [...]
Image Licensing Network GumGum Grabs $2.6 Million And Is Growing Fast
Image licensing network GumGum has raised $2.6 million in and extended Series A funding round led by GRP Venture Partners with First Round Capital participating. This brings GumGum’s total funding to close to $4 million.
GumGum has been seeing fast growth since its launch last year. Measured as an advertising network (but for images), GumGum [...]
