Nice exit for Sphere.com

Published in April 16th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Hearst Corporation, Internet, Media, Money, Public Companies, Radar Partners, Software, Technology, Trident Capital, True Ventures, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Winton Partners
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While AOL is trying to shop itself around they seem are not stopping the shopping spree themselves and keep on buying second tier web companies. After snatching Bebo last month, they have bought yesterday the related content engine Sphere, which is mainly used across blogs on Web.  So it seems to be official already: AOL has […]

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More instructional videos on the horizon

Published in March 30th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Education, Funding, Internet, Investments, Media, Money, Multimedia, Technology, True Ventures, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, video
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Creating educational and instructional videos, clips and episodes is something hot lately. The space is crowded and has just emerged from the popularization of the online video sector. MindBites is yet another player jumping the bandwagon. MindBites is a self-publishing platform and social marketplace for instructional content, which enables people to share their unique knowledge, […]

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Video advertising networks are hot, Brightroll gets its second round, claims it already served over 1 Billion video ads

Published in March 9th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Adams Street Partners, Advertising, Business, Funding, Internet, Investments, Jeff Clavier, KPG Ventures, Marketing, Media, Money, Multimedia, Software, Technology, True Ventures, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, video
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After having covered the video ad networks BlackArrow and YuMe Networks today we have discovered that yet another one called Brightroll has also recently closed its Series B funding taking $5M more. The round was led by existing investor True Ventures with Adams Street Partners and KPG Ventures as new participants. The first round’s amount […]

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In a small acquisition Mobile Network mbuzzy snapped up by SendMe

Published in December 27th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Amicus, Business, Entertainment, Games, Internet, Media, Mobile, Multimedia, Music, Social Networking, Software, Spark Capital, Technology, True Ventures, Web 2.0, video
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In a recent deal SendMe Mobile, a mobile media company, has acquired a mobile social network called mbuzzy. Although financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, according to Russell Klein, SendMe’s co-founder and CEO, the two companies had been in talks to work on joint projects for almost 8 or 9 months before the […]

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