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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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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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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The $250M pre-money seems did not work for Meebo and they go now for $175M

Published in April 14th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Facebook, Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, Montgomery & Co., Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, myspace
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The rumor has it that Meebo fails to sell to date and is may be trying to raise new round of funding instead and not at the initial $250M pre-money valuation they were hoping for but at $175 - $200M. Some sources claim that companies like Fox/MySpace and AOL have taken a long look at […]

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Looks like SpinVox is about to get a real run for the money, Nuance enters their niche

Published in April 2nd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in ABN Amro, Allen & Co, Blue Mountain Capital Management, Funding, GLG Partners, Goldman Sachs, Investments, Mobile, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology, Telecom, Toscafund Asset Management, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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Everything leads us to the simple conclusion that Nuance is taking on SpinVox’s voice-to-text technology. It has always been interestingly enough to see how pouring big VC money into an idea, market niche, product or solution is always attracting some bigger player to try and exploit it. It seems the case with SpinVox today is […]

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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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Modu, an innovative approach to cell phones, is on its way to raise $100M

Published in March 24th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Funding, Gemini Israel Funds, Genesis Partners, Investments, Mobile, Money, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital
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In a week full with $100M funding deals (9You & SpinVox) here is the next one – Modu is an Israel based start up founded just in 2007 and has already raised $20M in its Series A round of funding. In that first round the backers are Gemini Israel Funds and Genesis Partners. Today there […]

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SpinVox raises $100M at a whopping $500M valuation

Published in March 21st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in ABN Amro, Allen & Co, Blue Mountain Capital Management, Business, Funding, GLG Partners, Goldman Sachs, Investments, Mobile, Money, Software, Technology, Telecom, Toscafund Asset Management, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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SpinVox, a London based voice-to-text technology is raising $100M round of funding from a bunch of high-profile investors among which are Goldman Sachs, GLG Partners, Blue Mountain Capital Management and Toscafund Asset Management. The service can basically be described as a solution that transcribes voicemails to text so that they can be more easily digitized, […]

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