Glam seems to be cutting off revenues for publishers

Published in March 31st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Accel Partners, Advertising, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Duff Ackerman & Goodrich Ventures, Entertainment, Funding, GLG Partners, Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Hubert Burda Media, Information Capital, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Media, Money, Venture Capital, Walden Ventures
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Something really interesting is going on with Glam Media. To make a long story short Glam is basically a controversial site that runs both a network of its own web sites as well as runs ads on a network of third party sites geared towards women online and has just recently raised a massive amount […]

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More instructional videos on the horizon

Published in March 30th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Education, Funding, Internet, Investments, Media, Money, Multimedia, Technology, True Ventures, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, video
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Creating educational and instructional videos, clips and episodes is something hot lately. The space is crowded and has just emerged from the popularization of the online video sector. MindBites is yet another player jumping the bandwagon. MindBites is a self-publishing platform and social marketplace for instructional content, which enables people to share their unique knowledge, […]

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An online career community that connects people through personal relationships and affiliations

Published in March 29th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, Shasta Ventures, Social Networking, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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Doostang is an interesting concept built upon the belief that over 50% up to 70% of recruiting today is done through the personal network of contacts and a large portion of which is done by email communication. Using your personal network is the most effective way to find the right candidate for a position and […]

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Li Ka-shing invests $40M more in Facebook; total funding is now $378M from $338M before

Published in March 28th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Accel Partners, Advertising, Facebook, Founders Fund, Funding, Greylock Partners, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, IPO, Internet, Investments, Li Ka-shing, Meritech Capital, Mobile, Money, Peter Thiel, Social Networking, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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The Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing has reveled in a recent conference call that he raised his stake in the social networking site Facebook with some $40M more. That amount comes on top of his previous commitment of $60M, which brings his total investment in the popular site to $100M. What is his actually equity […]

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An Israeli sync start-up acquired for reportedly $25M

Published in March 27th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Alta Berkeley Venture Partners, Aviv Venture Capital Fund, Business, Eurofund, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology
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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 amount. However, Techcrunch has reported the company went for $25M.
Phoenix Technologies, based in Milpitas Calif., is a public company (PTEC) established in 1979 and designs, develops […]

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Yahoo shares up 4.4% on rumors Microsoft will increase the bid to $34

Published in March 26th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Investments, Media, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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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 price target to $34 per share based on their belief that Microsoft will revise its takeover offer. The guy is named Mark […]

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Wisdom of the crowds principle effectively applied to predict markets, events

Published in March 25th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Entertainment, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Money, Sherpalo Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Society, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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While doing our daily research on the web 2.0 deals we came across a very interesting start up that deserves to make our web 2.0 innovations list - Predictify.
Essentially it is a very interesting and pretty innovative idea of using the wisdom of the crowds and the collective intelligence principles to predict in behalf of […]

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Modu, an innovative approach to cell phones, is on its way to raise $100M

Published in March 24th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Funding, Gemini Israel Funds, Genesis Partners, Investments, Mobile, Money, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital
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In a week full with $100M funding deals (9You & SpinVox) here is the next one – Modu is an Israel based start up founded just in 2007 and has already raised $20M in its Series A round of funding. In that first round the backers are Gemini Israel Funds and Genesis Partners. Today there […]

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SocialMedia totals $4M in funding and is one of the top ad platforms for Facebook

Published in March 23rd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Charles River Ventures, Facebook, Funding, Internet, Investments, Jeff Clavier, Marketing, Media, Money, Social Networking, SoftTechVC, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, myspace
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Creating Facebook applications is already big business online. Facebook created a special fund to invest in popular applications for their social platform and there are also several venture capital firms who are keeping an eye on the sector for the next hot or modern Facebook application to invest in. Monetizing the traffic generated from those […]

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Gaming is hot in China; 9You raised $100M, talks IPO

Published in March 22nd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Carlyle Group, Entertainment, Funding, Games, IPO, Internet, Investments, Mobile, Money, Multimedia, Music, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Temasek Holdings, Venture Capital, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, video
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After reporting on SpinVox’s massive $100M round of funding it seems there is more to come within the same money range – this time from mainland China.
9You, a Chinese online games operator, has received $100 million in equity investment from Temasek Holdings, among other investors. Well, any time someone talks $100M funding rounds the IPO […]

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SpinVox raises $100M at a whopping $500M valuation

Published in March 21st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in ABN Amro, Allen & Co, Blue Mountain Capital Management, Business, Funding, GLG Partners, Goldman Sachs, Investments, Mobile, Money, Software, Technology, Telecom, Toscafund Asset Management, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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SpinVox, a London based voice-to-text technology is raising $100M round of funding from a bunch of high-profile investors among which are Goldman Sachs, GLG Partners, Blue Mountain Capital Management and Toscafund Asset Management. The service can basically be described as a solution that transcribes voicemails to text so that they can be more easily digitized, […]

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The modern Boo.com and pets.com

Published in March 20th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, American Capital, Business, Entertainment, Funding, Google, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Money, National Lampoon, Search Engines, Social Networking, Society, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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Just like their ancestors Boo.com and pets.com during the dot com boom times companies like Geosign and Capazoo have also spent huge amounts of money in no time and reached nothing but grand failures. But unlike those dot com stars from the past, which at least had serious business models, their modern equivalents from the […]

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A new way to build your Google Maps

Published in March 19th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Google, Internet, Multimedia, Semantic Web, Software, Technology, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0
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These days we came across a tiny French based company called Click2Map that is providing an interesting editor for creating mash-ups with Google Maps. You can there create fully customizable interactive professional online maps from existing data and the editor also offers database and template functionalities. They have just added a powerful template system coupled […]

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Meebo tries to raise $25M in return of only 10% equity valuing the company at the whopping $250M

Published in March 18th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Facebook, Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, Montgomery & Co., Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, myspace
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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 publicly available stats. That’s valuing each of their visitors at the $54 mark, which is significantly more than what AOL has just […]

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Website Optimization company and CMS leader joined forces

Published in March 17th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Enterprise, Internet, Marketing, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Software, Technology, eCommerce
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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 pioneer Optimost.
The both companies then said that combination of Interwoven’s Content Management Solutions with Optimost’s Multivariable Testing and Optimization Solution will help organizations […]

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What is the real reason Automattic bought Glavatar?

Published in March 16th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Automattic, Business, Internet, Investments, Media, Money, Privacy, Semantic Apps, Semantic Web, Social Networking, Society, Software, Technology, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0
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As some of you already know w2i (web2innovations.com) is keeping an internal archive of almost all funding and acquisition deals that happened over the past years on web. While we have the ambitions to report on all of them the deals are so many so that we end up only writing about some of the […]

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If your business is impacted by the weather WeatherBill might be a good solution for you

Published in March 15th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Allen & Co, Atomico, Business, First Round Capital, Funding, Howard Morgan, Idealab, Index Ventures, Internet, Investments, Joshua Schachter, Money, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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An interesting start-up that we have on our long list with funding deals here is under no doubt WeatherBill.
The San Francisco based WeatherBill started their service, which lets you cover your business from potential losses that might occur due to bad weather conditions, in early 2007 with a bunch of famous private and institutional investors […]

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22M uniques / mo site (Bebo) goes to AOL for $850M in all cash deal

Published in March 14th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Balderton Capital, Business, Internet, Media, Money, Public Companies, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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Bebo, the global social network strong enough in UK and among the first in US, has quietly been up for sale for quite some time shopped around by the secretive investment firm Allen & Co. A number of potential acquires passed on a deal for Bebo, including News Corp., Microsoft and Google, sources tell. Yahoo […]

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Is MediaBids.com an alternative of Google’s AdWords?

Published in March 13th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Google, Marketing, Media
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MediaBids.com, the Newspaper and Magazine Advertising Marketplace, has recently announced the addition of over 325 new newspapers and magazines to its print advertising marketplace so far in 2008, which much or less attracted out attention.
The company claims it has over 4,600 U.S. print publications registered on MediaBids to use their online processes to sell ad […]

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AOL is offered up for sale

Published in March 12th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Internet, Media, Money, Public Companies, Technology, Yahoo
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Today is a sad day for AOL, which somehow contrasts to the big day the company had in 2000 when they merged with Time Warner in what was then the biggest deal for the dot com era. All indicates that AOL is offered up for sale.
AOL, which is a symbolic company for the Internet the […]

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