fix8 takes more money to fiddle around animated avatars

Published in April 4th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Entertainment, Funding, Games, Internet, Investments, Media, Money, Multimedia, SK Telecom, Social Networking, Software, TV, Technology, Venture Capital, Vickers Financial Group, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0
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It was just a few months ago when fix8 took their first round of funding from Vickers Venture Group. The amount taken was then $3M. Vickers Venture Group is a Singapore-based private equity firm. This time the company says it has landed SK Telecom, which is a leading South Korean telecom, taking some $3M more […]

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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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Some of the Silicon Valley’s top non-Web innovations VCs spent money on

Published in March 5th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Battery Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Funding, Games, In-Q-Tel, Investments, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Menlo Ventures, Money, Multimedia, Pitango Venture Capital, Retail, Semantic Apps, Sequoia Capital, Shopping, Software, Spencer Trask Ventures, Technology, Venture Capital, angel investors, ePlanet Ventures, video
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Forbes has assembled a very interesting list of some of the Silicon Valley’s most interesting and coolest innovations beyond the web start-ups. What is being said as a fact is that venture capitalists have poured over $30B into more than 2500 new ventures in 2007 alone. Some of them have to be non-traditional the media […]

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ETech, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference is coming

Published in February 28th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Games, Internet, Media, Search Engines, Semantic Apps, Semantic Web, Social Networking, Society, Software, Technology, Telecom, Web 2.0
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One of the most important technology conferences for the year will be held in March 3-6 in San Diego, California. ETech the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, now in its seventh year, will take a wide-eyed look at the brand new tech that’s tweaking how we are seen as individuals, how we choose to channel and […]

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Sharing digital media start up has raised $2.5M

Published in February 18th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Arts, Entertainment, Funding, Games, Internet, Investments, JK&B Capital, Media, Mobile, Money, Music, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, video
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A couple of months ago a tiny start up called Treemo has taken its first round of funding in the $2.5M range. The funding was led by JK&B Capital. The company is a media sharing service for the Web and mobile phones service and like many other players in the space Treemo looks to appeal […]

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fix8 has taken $3M for animated avatars for your cam

Published in February 17th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Entertainment, Funding, Games, Internet, Investments, Media, Money, Multimedia, Social Networking, Software, TV, Technology, Venture Capital, Vickers Financial Group, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0
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A couple of months ago the tiny start up company fix8 has raised $3 million in a series A round of funding from Vickers Venture Group, which is a Singapore-based private equity firm. Fix8 is a web cam avatar community that lets you create animated avatars with your web cam by reading your expressions and […]

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RockYou named one of the top innovations for 2007

Published in January 2nd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Entertainment, Facebook, Games, Internet, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Media, Multimedia, Music, Partech International, Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0, Yahoo, video
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RockYou is amongst the top 6 innovation leaps for 2007 according CNN. Below is what Michael V. Copeland from Fortune wrote about the company.
While the giants of social networking battle for the attention of Internet users, the guys behind RockYou are happy to sit in the middle. They make their money shipping the tiny apps […]

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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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In a small acquisition Mobile Network mbuzzy snapped up by SendMe

Published in December 27th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Amicus, Business, Entertainment, Games, Internet, Media, Mobile, Multimedia, Music, Social Networking, Software, Spark Capital, Technology, True Ventures, Web 2.0, video
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In a recent deal SendMe Mobile, a mobile media company, has acquired a mobile social network called mbuzzy. Although financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, according to Russell Klein, SendMe’s co-founder and CEO, the two companies had been in talks to work on joint projects for almost 8 or 9 months before the […]

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Troubles and security issues in SecondLife and other virtual worlds

Published in December 3rd, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Games, Social Networking, Society, Technology, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0
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The Mercury News has a story where savvy security researchers have found a flaw in Second Life virtual world that allows them to strip a user’s character of all of its in-world money.
Charles Miller and Dino Dai Zovi, two experienced hackers, claim they have found a vulnerability in the way Second Life protects a user’s […]

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