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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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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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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InfoSpace has sold its mobile unit for $135M to Motricity, the second prepares to go public

Published in February 14th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advanced Equities, Business, Carl Icahn, Funding, IPO, Investments, Media, Mobile, Money, New Enterprise Associates, Software, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, angel investors
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One of the Internet’s oldest companies InfoSpace is probably not performing well since they are largely selling out their businesses. With its switchboard and local directory business having already been sold to Idearc for reportedly $225M, what’s left of InfoSpace was the mobile services division, which serves up managed services infrastructure for mobile carriers. This […]

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After Internet Brands, LogMeIn, now Al Gore’s Current TV files for an IPO and plans to go public

Published in January 29th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Blum Capital Partners, Business, Entertainment, Funding, IPO, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Media, Money, Multimedia, Public Companies, Social Networking, Software, TV, Technology, Web 2.0, Yucaipa Corporate Initiatives Fund, video
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It seems it is time for small-sized Internet and technology IPOs. After Internet Brands, Inc. went public on NASDAQ, LogMeIn, Inc. filed to do so now Al Gore’s Current is looking forward to do the same. Unlike Internet Brands Inc and LogMeIn, Inc, Current TV is purely from the web 2.0 age, so it would […]

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A big question: is Alibaba.com overvalued or Yahoo is seriously undervalued?

Published in January 28th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Alibaba, Business, Cisco, Funding, IPO, Internet, Investments, Money, Public Companies, Technology, Yahoo
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Let’s put it that way Alibaba lost $13B from its market cap in just one month, yet the company’s market value is close to 50% from what Yahoo!’s current value is!
When Alibaba went public on the Honk Hong Stock Exchange a couple of months ago everything was more than perfect and the company has raised […]

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After Samwer brothers Nokia is also going to invest in Facebook

Published in January 21st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Accel Partners, Business, Facebook, Founders Fund, Funding, Greylock Partners, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, IPO, Internet, Investments, Meritech Capital, Microsoft, Money, Nokia, Peter Thiel, Public Companies, Samwer brothers, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Web 2.0
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It has been deal time for Facebook over the past months, or year? After Microsoft, the Honk Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing  and the Samwer brothers Nokia is now rumored to be in talk to invest in Facebook. Let’s however first take a look at what the Samwer brothers have gotten last week for their money.
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LogMeIn files for an IPO hoping to raise $86M

Published in January 15th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Enterprise, Funding, IPO, Integral Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Internet, Investments, Money, Polaris Venture Partners, Prism Venture Partners, Public Companies, Software, Technologieholding Central, Technology
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It seems it is time for small-sized Internet and technology IPOs. After Internet Brands, Inc. went public on NASDAQ it is now turn of yet another second-tier technology company LogMeIn, Inc. to do the same looking for pretty much the same amount to raise. It has filed to trade on the NASDAQ under the symbol LOGM.
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Internet Brands, Inc. went public on NASDAQ

Published in January 14th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Clearstone Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, Funding, IPO, Idealab Holdings LLC, Internet, Investments, Money, Public Companies
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Internet Brands, Inc., the smaller brother of IAC in terms of Internet strategy, and an Internet holding company with a number of second tier e-brands went public in the last weeks of 2007. They filed for their IPO back in July 2007 and were then planning to raise $100M/$115M million.
Internet Brands, Inc. was by that […]

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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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No IPO for Classmates.com

Published in December 13th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman Sachs, IPO, JP Morgan Sercurities, Social Networking
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On November 27, 2007 we have reported that Classmates Media has just filed to go public at a valuation of $600 to $700 million. It then appeared that Classmates is trying to cash in on the social networking market craze.
Classmates Media Corp., which operates the online social networking site Classmates.com, (when the company started they […]

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Classmates prepares for an IPO

Published in November 27th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman Sachs, IPO, JP Morgan Sercurities, Social Networking
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Classmates Media has just filed to go public at a valuation of $600 to $700 million. Compared to Facebook’s $15 Billion valuation, which the company took as a private entity, it ranks the company more in the bottom level of the Internet sector rather than within the top 100. It appears that Classmates is trying to cash […]

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