REGIS Corporation Deployed The First Firewall-Protected Payment Terminal In The World From Talentbeat Inc.

Published in September 16th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Companies, Internet, Money, Retail, Shopping, Society, Technology, eCommerce
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REGIS Corporation, the beauty industry’s global leader in beauty salons, hair restoration centers and cosmetology education over 13,500 locations worldwide, deployed the first firewall-protected payment terminal in the world. The solution utilizes the PCI-certified payment platform whizPay™ from TalentBeat Inc., which accepts REGIS payments for gift cards, credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover, Diner, JCB), and debit cards.

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New web 2.0 site allows students to publish, protect, share, and earn from their High School and College papers

Published in August 1st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Education, Internet, Marketing, Media, Money, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0, eCommerce
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New website allows students to publish, protect, share, and earn from their High School and College papers. Students spend countless hours researching and writing, it has always been done for education and a degree. Now that effort is being turned in to spending money.
The launch of a new Student community website allows students to publish […]

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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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WidgetBucks claims it served over 1B ads in just 3 months, enters behavioral targeting

Published in January 20th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Ignition Partners, Internet, Marketing, Privacy, Retail, Search Engines, Shopping, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Web 2.0, eCommerce
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A tiny start up called WidgetBucks is claiming they have served over 1 billion ads in the past three months. It is a serious claim, aside the fact they also claim to be the fastest growing ad network on web today.
WidgetBucks features pay-per-click shopping widgets that help their customers make money fast. They instantly display […]

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Behavioral Targeting is Busted; But Marketers are barking up the wrong tree!

Published in January 11th, 2008
Posted by Jack Jia in Advertising, Business, Facebook, Internet, Marketing, Media, Privacy, Semantic Apps, Society, Software, Technology, Web 2.0, eCommerce
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Behavioral Targeting (BT) has been around since the first dotcom days. It got really hot again in late 2007 thanks to a few big promoters like Facebook. But what is it and does it really work as it sounds?
BT tracks a web visitor’s browser-click-streams, typically in the last six visits, to predict what he or […]

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Microsoft bets on enterprise search, offers to buy Fast.no for $1.2B

Published in January 8th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Enterprise, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Software, Technology, eCommerce
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In what’s Microsoft’s second largest deal for the past 12 months the company offered to buy Fast Search & Transfer ASA, a leading provider of enterprise search solutions based in Norway. Details are as follows: Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA (OSE: “FAST”), a […]

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Some of the web’s biggest acquisition deals during 2007

Published in December 31st, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Cisco, Disney, Entertainment, Facebook, Funding, Games, Goldman Sachs, Google, Hewlett Packard, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, IPO, Internet, Investments, MSNBC, Marketing, Media, Microsoft, Mobile, Money, Multimedia, Music, Naspers, Nokia, Oracle, Public Companies, Retail, Ron Conway, SAP, Search Engines, Sequoia Capital, Shopping, Social Networking, Software, Technology, TomTom, Virtual Worlds, WPP Group, Web 2.0, Yahoo, eBay, eCommerce, video
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As the end of the year approaches us we would like to briefly sum up some of the web’s biggest acquisition deals for the 2007, as we know them. 
All deals will logically be ranked by their sizes and less weight will be put on the time the deal happened through out the year. Deals from […]

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Oddly WalMart jumps into the search engine marketing business, joins Kenshoo & Fathomonline

Published in December 28th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Google, Internet, Marketing, Public Companies, Retail, Sequoia Capital, eCommerce
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In a recent announcement the company seems to be entering the SEM (search engine marketing) business and are offering services to users willing to advertise on Google AdWords through AdSense.
An interesting questions popped up into my mind, does that involve any strategic agreement with Google for reselling their AdWords packages across the country in the brick and […]

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BillMeLater - $1 Billion in funding so far

Published in December 12th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Azure Capital Partners, Business, Crosspoint Venture Partners, Funding, GRP Partners, Internet, Money, Public Companies, Shopping, Technology, eCommerce
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By putting different pieces together we have just realized that all the funding for the so called credit card alternative BillMeLater totals $1 Billion. Pretty impressive at first sight but on second reading we guess it is in norms for a financial company with such ambitious goals and operations.
BillMeLater is a young seven-year-old company that […]

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Microsoft acquires discount shopping search Jellyfish

Published in December 8th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Clyde Street, Kegonsa Capital Partners, Microsoft, Public Companies, Search Engines, Shopping, Technology, Web 2.0, eCommerce
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A couple of months ago Microsoft did an interesting move. They acquired Jellyfish.com – the Internet’s first buying [search] engine, as they call themselves.  Simply put: online discount shopping website that shares their fees earned from the merchants when you buy from them through cash back program.
Typical for how the major companies buy the price […]

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