Website Optimization company and CMS leader joined forces
An interesting deal happened a few months ago, announced in October 2007 and closed in November the same year. Interwoven, a public company traded on NASDAQ, has acquired the said website optimization...
View ArticleMeebo tries to raise $25M in return of only 10% equity valuing the company at...
Meebo is a popular and rapidly growing web based instant messaging start up that was backed up by Sequoia Capital and is said to have roughly 4.6M unique visitors per month according to comScore’s...
View ArticleYahoo shares up 4.4% on rumors Microsoft will increase the bid to $34
To make a long story short a Citigroup Investment Research analyst believes that rather than let the deal fall apart, Microsoft will increase its buyout offer for Yahoo. Citigroup has raised its Yahoo...
View ArticleAn Israeli sync start-up acquired for reportedly $25M
BeInSync Ltd., an Israeli-based provider of an all-in-one solution that allows users to backup, synchronize, share and access data online has been acquired by Phoenix Technologies for an undisclosed...
View ArticleDespite rumors Microsoft is highly unlikely to increase its bid for Yahoo
When last week we wrote about Yahoo’s shares going up on rumors that Microsoft is going to increase their bid for the Internet giant it seems those rumors were not very accurate. This week Microsoft...
View ArticleImeem confirms the acquisition of Snocap for reportedly less than $5M off...
An acquisition that was announced in late February has today been confirmed. Imeem confirms the acquisition of Snocap. As we have then written Snocap has been in a long quest for a buyer (at least...
View ArticleMeeVee put itself up for sale
An interesting approach is taken at MeeVee. They are trying to sell themselves through a press release. This morning we have seen a short press announcement put up on Yahoo through BusinessWire giving...
View ArticleThe $250M pre-money seems did not work for Meebo and they go now for $175M
The rumor has it that Meebo fails to sell to date and is may be trying to raise new round of funding instead and not at the initial $250M pre-money valuation they were hoping for but at $175 – $200M....
View ArticlePageflakes is acquired by Brad Greenspan’s Live Universe
Pageflakes, an Ajax home page that once was a real competition to Netvibes, is being rumored to have been acquired by Live Universe for an undisclosed amount. Both companies refrain themselves from...
View ArticleNice exit for Sphere.com
While AOL is trying to shop itself around they seem are not stopping the shopping spree themselves and keep on buying second tier web companies. After snatching Bebo last month, they have bought...
View ArticleAngel investors have invested as much as $26 billion in start ups last year,...
Today we have read over a few technology and business blogs that angel investors have poured $26B in start-up companies for the last year alone. Aside the fact this is an impressive amount of money it...
View ArticleVC deals show a decline in the first quarter of 2008
While angel investors are taking on venture capitalists and have last year invested as much as VCs did the VC deals show a decline in the first quarter of 2008. According to a new report from...
View ArticleSony acquired digital media identification company Gracenote for about $260M
Sony has today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Gracenote for about $260M plus other contingent consideration. Gracenote provides a range of music-related solutions including...
View ArticleSince bought StumbleUpon’s traffic has dropped seriously down; now climbing back
Since the time StumbleUpon was bought by eBay for $75M in cash there was little to no news on the company until today. Apparently in a quest for media attention StumbleUpon (or eBay) has contacted...
View ArticleMicrosoft – Yahoo saga seems to be over!
Well, after 3 months of negotiations, speculations and rumors the saga between Microsoft and Yahoo seems to be over, for now. Microsoft has formally withdrawn their offer to buy Yahoo while the second...
View ArticleMeebo raised $25M on reportedly $200M pre-money
The rumors were lately that Meebo failed to sell and that’s why it went into this new round of funding instead and not at the initial $250M pre-money valuation they were hoping for but at $175 – $200M...
View ArticleLinkedIn is out pitching for a major round at the staggering $1B pre-money
The rumors across the valley are that LinkedIn is out trying to raise a new round at $1B pre-money valuation. They are using the service of the New York based secretive investment bank Allen & Co....
View ArticleLive Universe acquires yet another over funded start-up on the cheap
It appears that the buyer’s profile of Live Universe is to buy web 2.0 companies in trouble on the cheap, yet preferably over funded, with some traffic and good technology, if possible. After they have...
View ArticleLive Universe acquires yet another deadpooled start-up on the cheap
A couple of weeks ago we realized the shopping pattern of Live Universe is to buy failed, but over funded, start ups on the cheap and the deal we read about a few days ago makes no exception. Just over...
View Article2008′s Most Popular Web 2.0 Sites
Today we are living in web 2.0 times more than ever before. PR, press coverage, buzz, evangelism, lobbying, who knows who, who blogs who, who talks about who, mainstream media and beyond – all of those...
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