Soaring gas prices help services like Car-Pooling and Ride-Sharing flourish

Published in May 26th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Internet, Society, Technology, Travel, Web 2.0
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The Kirchweidach, Germany and Mountain View, Calif based start-up called DriJo seems to be on the right track to help people offset their dependence on the high fuel prices by offering an auction-based ride sharing and car pooling matching service, making partial use of Google Maps technology.
Ride sharing & car pooling is a phenomena similar […]

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Live Universe acquires yet another deadpooled start-up on the cheap

Published in May 21st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Internet, LiveUniverse, Mobile, Money, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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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 a few week ago the founders of and five engineers from VoIP services provider Jangl […]

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Mobile Web 2.0 to reach $22.4B by 2013, says Juniper Research

Published in May 14th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Money, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Telecom, Web 2.0
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The global market for Mobile Web 2.0 will be worth $22.4bn in 2013, up from $5.5bn currently, according to a new report by Juniper Research.  Embracing social networking & User Generated Content (UGC), mobile search and mobile IM (Instant Messaging), Mobile Web 2.0 provides a framework for delivery of collaborative applications, further enhanced and contextualized […]

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Facebook raised $100M more, total is now at $493M

Published in May 12th, 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, Money, Peter Thiel, Social Networking, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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Facebook keeps on growing so does its expenditures. The latest news from the company is that they have raised yet another $100M round of funding. The company says this time all the money will go for buying servers, lots of servers. BusinessWeek has estimated they are going to scale things up with 50,000 new servers […]

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Live Universe acquires yet another over funded start-up on the cheap

Published in May 9th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, DEFTA Partners, Edmond de Rothschild Venture Capital, Entertainment, FCPR Israel Discovery Fund, Internet, JPMorgan, Labrador Ventures, LiveUniverse, Marketing, Money, Multimedia, TV, The Bay Area Equity Fund, Venture Capital, WaldenVC, Web 2.0, video
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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 bought video site Revver (also relatively cheap, price perhaps was in the $1M range) in February 2008, they have also […]

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LinkedIn is out pitching for a major round at the staggering $1B pre-money

Published in May 6th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Allen & Co, Bessemer Venture Partners, Business, European Founders Fund, Funding, Greylock, Internet, Investments, Money, Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Society, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, the European Founders Fund
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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. where the Managing Director Dave Wehner seems to be engaged with the effort to help LinkedIn secure its next […]

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Meebo raised $25M on reportedly $200M pre-money

Published in May 5th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Facebook, Funding, Internet, Investments, Jafco Ventures, KTB Ventures, Money, Montgomery & Co., Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Telecom, Time Warner Investments, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, myspace
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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 (as it seems $200M). Some sources claim that companies like Fox/MySpace and AOL have taken a long look […]

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Microsoft - Yahoo saga seems to be over!

Published in May 4th, 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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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 publicly declared a victory for the Web at all. While there are clearly no winners in this virtual war here is what […]

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