Push-To-Talk Over Wi-Fi for Motorola Warehouse Devices

Published in July 22nd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Enterprise, Retail, Software, Technology, Telecom, Voice, Web 2.0
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Radicomm, Inc., a Motorola PartnerSelect ISV (Independent Software Vendor), has released QuickTalk, a voice communication system for rugged mobile scanning devices like the Motorola MC9090 and MC70. Using QuickTalk, stockroom managers and other supervisors can talk to any worker in their warehouse, factory, or distribution center with the push of a button. All voice communication […]

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New Features for the 3CX Phone System for Windows

Published in June 27th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Internet, Marketing, Mobile, Software, Technology, Telecom
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3CX (www.3cx.com) has announced the release of version 6.0 of 3CX Phone System for Windows. The most recent version of the award-winning and software-based PBX ships with 10 key new enterprise-level features such as call conferencing, paging and Windows 2008 support. These 10 new features were developed by the international software development company in only […]

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Live Universe acquires yet another deadpooled start-up on the cheap

Published in May 21st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Internet, LiveUniverse, Mobile, Money, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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A couple of weeks ago we realized the shopping pattern of Live Universe is to buy failed, but over funded, start ups on the cheap and the deal we read about a few days ago makes no exception. Just over a few week ago the founders of and five engineers from VoIP services provider Jangl […]

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Mobile Web 2.0 to reach $22.4B by 2013, says Juniper Research

Published in May 14th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Money, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Telecom, Web 2.0
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The global market for Mobile Web 2.0 will be worth $22.4bn in 2013, up from $5.5bn currently, according to a new report by Juniper Research.  Embracing social networking & User Generated Content (UGC), mobile search and mobile IM (Instant Messaging), Mobile Web 2.0 provides a framework for delivery of collaborative applications, further enhanced and contextualized […]

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LinkedIn is out pitching for a major round at the staggering $1B pre-money

Published in May 6th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Allen & Co, Bessemer Venture Partners, Business, European Founders Fund, Funding, Greylock, Internet, Investments, Money, Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Society, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, the European Founders Fund
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The rumors across the valley are that LinkedIn is out trying to raise a new round at $1B pre-money valuation. They are using the service of the New York based secretive investment bank Allen & Co. where the Managing Director Dave Wehner seems to be engaged with the effort to help LinkedIn secure its next […]

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Meebo raised $25M on reportedly $200M pre-money

Published in May 5th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Facebook, Funding, Internet, Investments, Jafco Ventures, KTB Ventures, Money, Montgomery & Co., Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Telecom, Time Warner Investments, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, myspace
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The rumors were lately that Meebo failed to sell and that’s why it went into this new round of funding instead and not at the initial $250M pre-money valuation they were hoping for but at $175 - $200M (as it seems $200M). Some sources claim that companies like Fox/MySpace and AOL have taken a long look […]

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Microsoft - Yahoo saga seems to be over!

Published in May 4th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Investments, Media, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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Well, after 3 months of negotiations, speculations and rumors the saga between Microsoft and Yahoo seems to be over, for now. Microsoft has formally withdrawn their offer to buy Yahoo while the second publicly declared a victory for the Web at all. While there are clearly no winners in this virtual war here is what […]

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Sony acquired digital media identification company Gracenote for about $260M

Published in April 23rd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Internet, Media, Money, Multimedia, Music, Software, Sony, Technology
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Sony has today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Gracenote for about $260M plus other contingent consideration. Gracenote provides a range of music-related solutions including MusicID, which detects which song is currently being played by an application and loads track information for the user. MusicID leverages a database of over 6M […]

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Amazon Web Services on its way to surpass $500M in sales this year

Published in April 22nd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Amazon, Business, Enterprise, Internet, Money, Public Companies, Retail, Software, Technology, Web 2.0
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In a recent conference call Amazon has announced that it has reached over $131M in sales during the fourth-quarter of 2007 from its Web Services, which much or less means more than $500M in revenues for the entire fiscal 2008 for Amazon coming solely from its Web Services. When compared to the $5.7B for the […]

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VC deals show a decline in the first quarter of 2008

Published in April 21st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Business, Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Software, Technology, Web 2.0, angel investors
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While angel investors are taking on venture capitalists and have last year invested as much as VCs did the VC deals show a decline in the first quarter of 2008. According to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, venture capital investment in the United States headed south in the first quarter of 2008.
The report found that […]

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