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 […]

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 […]

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

Published in March 28th, 2008

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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