The modern Boo.com and pets.com

Published in March 20th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, American Capital, Business, Entertainment, Funding, Google, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Money, National Lampoon, Search Engines, Social Networking, Society, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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Just like their ancestors Boo.com and pets.com during the dot com boom times companies like Geosign and Capazoo have also spent huge amounts of money in no time and reached nothing but grand failures. But unlike those dot com stars from the past, which at least had serious business models, their modern equivalents from the […]

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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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Google invests more in DNA projects

Published in March 3rd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Education, Funding, Google, Investments, Money, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology
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After having spent almost $4M on 23andMe, which plans to make the human genome searchable and whose founder is the wife of Google’s Sergey Brin, last year and is in heavy preparation for the launch of the Google Health, Google has now financially backed a project from a Harvard University scientist to unlock the secrets […]

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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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Microsoft’s stock has fallen 13% since its offer for Yahoo

Published in February 19th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Companies, Internet, Investments, Microsoft, Money, Public, Search Engines, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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We have read tons of stories and points of views about the potential deal between Microsoft and Yahoo over the past weeks. We guess all people did. Everything seems already being said about the deal. Yet, something interesting popped up in the news today. It turns out that Microsoft is the big loser from the […]

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Qunar, a Chinese travel search engine, raised $10 million

Published in February 16th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Funding, GSR Ventures, Internet, Investments, Lehman Brothers Private Equity, Mayfield Fund, Money, Search Engines, Technology, Travel, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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Chinese web 2.0 market is hot up to the point where large-scale financial institution like Lehman Brothers has jumped on a travel start-up. Qunar.com is an online travel search engine that we’ve just found out it has raised $10M in its 2nd round a couple of months ago. The investment in the company was led […]

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And here is what Microsoft has to tell Yahoo!

Published in February 12th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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The saga continues. Following the firm “NO” of Yahoo as of yesterday, Microsoft has put up today an official press release responding to the Yahoo!’s NO with “Reiterates Full and Fair Proposal for Microsoft-Yahoo! Combination”
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 11 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Yahoo! […]

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Yahoo’s official response to Microsoft’s offer: NO!

Published in February 11th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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After we reported the strong NO of Yahoo! to Microsoft over the weekend (Saturday) here is the official response of the Yahoo!’s board of directors.
Yahoo! Board of Directors Says Microsoft’s Proposal Substantially Undervalues Yahoo!
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb 11, 2008 — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today said the Yahoo! Board of Directors has […]

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End of speculations: Yahoo rejected Microsoft’s offer

Published in February 9th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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Internet giant Yahoo’s board has decided to reject Microsoft’s takeover bid, saying its 44.6 billion dollar offer “massively undervalues” Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier today.
Yahoo’s board also believes the Microsoft offer, at 31 dollars per share, does not account for risks facing Yahoo if it pursues a deal that might be ultimately blocked […]

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One after another the potential competitive bidders for Yahoo drop off; is Yahoo going to surrender to Microsoft?

Published in February 8th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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A few days ago we were trying to analyze who is going to eventually make a counter offer to match or outbid the Microsoft’s $46B offer for Yahoo!.
By that time multiple sources were reporting counter offers are in preparation by competitive bidders trying to snatch Yahoo! before Microsoft does it. We then exclude Google from […]

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Google’s Chief Legal Officer vs. Microsoft’s General Counsel

Published in February 4th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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An interesting virtual war is taking place on Web right now caused by the Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo!. It appears Google cannot (or they don’t want to) enter the bidding war for Yahoo! due to many reasons; one of them seems to be the antitrust law complications that might arise from potential market dominance in the […]

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Is Google going to be the winner from the Microsoft-Yahoo deal?

Published in February 2nd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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Over the past a couple of days all the major media outlets are full with news, analyses, reports, commentaries and researches on the potential deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! trying to figure out the benefits or the potential pitfalls the deal would eventually face.
We’ve read a lot and we’d like here to summarize the pluses […]

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Yes, we were right Yahoo was seriously undervalued; Microsoft offers $44.6B for the company, a 62% premium over their value from yesterday

Published in February 1st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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When a few days ago we conducted an in-depth research on Web and ran an analysis based on the information collected we came up to the logical conclusion that Yahoo! was seriously undervalued company. Today Microsoft proved us right by offering $44.6B for Yahoo!, which represents a 62% premium on Thursday’s closing price. All major […]

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The Washington Post Company acquired CourseAdvisor.com

Published in January 31st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in ABS Capital Partners, Acquisitions, Business, Education, Funding, Internet, Investments, Media, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology
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The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) has acquired the education site CourseAdvisor.com, which is an online lead generator serving the education industry. However, the financial details and terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The Wakefield, MA.-based company matches up students with suitable degree or certificate-granting programs across 800 institutions. CourseAdvisor founder and CEO Greg Titus […]

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More deals in the enterprise search sector

Published in January 23rd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Ampersand Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Business, DN Capital, Enterprise, Granite Global Ventures, Intel Capital, Internet, Investments, Lehman Brothers, Money, SAP, SAP Ventures, Search Engines, Software, Technology, Venrock Associates, Venture Capital
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A couple of weeks after Microsoft announced its $1.2 billion acquisition of FAST Search & Transfer, enterprise search competitor Endeca is getting a $15 million cash infusion from both Intel Capital and SAP Ventures. This is on top of the $50 million Endeca has already raised in the past few years from Lehman Brothers, Granite […]

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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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Technorati’s total funding revealed - $21.6 to date in 3 rounds

Published in January 13th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, August Capital, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Francisco Partners, Funding, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Media, Mobius Venture Capital, Money, Search Engines, Society, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, video
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Technorati, the blog search engine, has always been quite secretive about the funding it got over the years leaving people like us, always interested in the money behind the Web 2.0, speculate about the right numbers.  
Things changed the last month when we have read over multiple trusted sources on Web that the company has raised […]

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Can Google lead amid its ever growing infrastructure and computation expenditures?

Published in January 10th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Dell, Enterprise, Google, IBM, Internet, Investments, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Software, Technology
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While reading our daily dose of news, stories and events from the web sector we came across an interesting fact worth reading and mentioning further. Google seems to be processing huge amounts of data per day in their daily routines – 20 Petabytes per day (20,000 Terabytes, 20M GBs).
The average MapReduce job is said to […]

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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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Google files patent for recognizing text in images

Published in January 4th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Adobe, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Google, Internet, Public Companies, Ron Conway, Search Engines, Semantic Web, Software, Technology, Web 2.0, video
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Google has filed a patent application in July 2007, which has just recently become public claiming methods where robots can read and understand text in images and video. The basic idea here is Google to be able to index videos and images and made them available and searchable by text or keywords located inside the […]

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