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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Taylor Nelson Sofres buys Compete.com

Published in March 4th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Charles River Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Partners, Idealab, Internet, Marketing, Media, Money, North Hill Ventures, Public Companies, Retail, Shopping, Software, Split Rock Partners, Technology, William Blair Capital Partners
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Compete, which started out in 2000 as an Idealab company, raised over $40M in funding to date, incurred $4.5M losses for the last year off $15M revenues and had hard time lately to compete with Quantcast has its exit day today. Compete has been acquired by the market research leader Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) for […]

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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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Proximic lands deals with Yahoo! and Shopping.com, said to be taking on AdSense, which is bad PR approach!

Published in January 19th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Holtzbrinck Group, Internet, Marketing, Public Companies, Retail, Shopping, Software, Technology, Web 2.0, Wellington Partners, Yahoo, eBay
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Content-delivery network Proximic, which has a unique contextual matching system, now has ads to sell that can help bloggers and others monetize their sites. The Munich Germany based start-up has signed deals to syndicate product listings from both eBay’s Shopping.com and Yahoo’s Shopping Network as contextual ads on other Websites. What other web sources claim […]

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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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Fashion Fix for Facebook users

Published in December 30th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Facebook, Internet, Retail, Shopping, Social Networking, Society, Web 2.0
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Developing Facebook applications and taping into their millions of registered users appears to be yet another marketing instrument employed even sometimes by brick and mortar retailers like the UK’s TopShop.  
The new Topshop Fashion Fix which has recently been launched on Facebook allows users to see the newest must-have pieces for the season from their Facebook […]

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Naspers acquires yet another European company - Tradus

Published in December 29th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Business, Internet, Media, Money, Naspers, Public Companies, Retail, Shopping
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Simply put a fallen dot com star with eBay ambitious, once worth more than 2B British pound (around $4B) and collapsed down to £62M at the end of 2000 is now being basically said rescued by a South African media company that is spending money at breakneck pace. The offered price is £946M (more than […]

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Behavioral recommendation service for shoppers raises $10 Million, market heats up

Published in December 26th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Funding, Internet, Investments, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Money, Palomar Ventures, Retail, Shopping, Web 2.0
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A couple of months ago MyBuys raised $10 Million in Series B funding aimed to help online merchants sell more by utilizing behavioral targeting techniques. The company provides software to ecommerce stores that allows them to serve up ads and products based on your behavior – for example, tracking what you search for and showing […]

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MyPunchBowl gets angel funding, relies on algorithm to recommend best dates

Published in December 17th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Entertainment, Funding, Intel Capital, Internet, Investments, Money, Shopping, Technology, Web 2.0, eCoast Angels
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MyPunchBowl, the event planning site that has joined the new crowd of Evite rivals, has recently been angel funded. According to some sources like VentureBeat and Mashable, the exact amount of funding has not been disclosed, but it’s less than $1 million, and is enough to keep the team in development for another year, at […]

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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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