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All Things D - All Things D - When Dropbox announced Friday that it is acquiring Mailbox, terms of the deal were not disclosed leaving the public to wonder what went down. GigaOM and TechCrunch both claim that mailbox was acquired for a price "well over" $50 million, with a large amount of stock which pushes the deal closer to one million dollars. … [Read more...]
Social Analytics platform Bazaar Vocie has bought out a privately owned social commerce competitor, Power Reviews, for just under one hundred and fifty two million dollars. The aquasition will be split into roughly thirty one million dollars in cash and the rest will be paid in over six million shares of stock. The addition of Power Reviews will allow Bazaar Voice to jump into the small and mid sized social markets. Until now, Bazaar Voice has mainly focused a majority if not all of their … [Read more...]
Last time Louis C.K. sold his online comedy special to consumers over his website louisck.net for five dollars per one hour special, he received a bit more attention than he would have ever thought possible. He grossed over one million dollars in income, almost three hundred thousand of which Louis gave to a local charity. This time around, his special is named "Word: Live At Carnegie Hall" and is available on his website for five dollars. With such large success from his last go around, … [Read more...]
Texts, email notifications and a built in GPS all in one simple little watch. When Pebble Technology released their new smart watch Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors were not very impressed, to say the least. However, within the first twenty eight hours the Pebble Watch raised over one million dollars in funding from, well, who else, but you the consumer. Thanks to the world largest investment platform, KickStarter Pebble Technology now see's itself as the largest competitor in smart … [Read more...]
ThinkNear is an independent company, which strives to help you target single mobile advertisements to consumers at explicit locations. ThinkNear has access to over one billion mobile intuitions and a one of a kind location technology. They make it a priority for your message to reach customers ready to buy exactly what you want to sell, right when you want to sell it. The company has raised more than one million dollars in funding from IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and … [Read more...]
FloType Inc is one company we will all want to see grow in the future. Last year, their team of three UC Berkley dropouts landed over one million dollars in funding from Andreessen Horowitz. According to their companies page, the startup “bridge enables real-time communication between any server, any device, on any platform, abstracting away the complexity of massive scale real-time applications.” The company was founded in two thousand ten by Darshan Shankar, Sridatta Thatipamala … [Read more...]
Klout, the standard to measure your online influence, seems to be moving forward after keeping quit for quite a few months after privacy concerns became a hit topic with the network. Klout has recently announced the addition of BlockBoard to allow users to build ‘strong communities through technology.’ According to a blog post from Klout: "To keep driving toward our mission of unlocking every user’s influence, we need to make Klout useful and accessible wherever they are – whether … [Read more...]
Zuora, the award winning cloud-billing platform, has caught the eye of many people in the private software enterprise. Last November the company made their thirty six million dollars in funding known to the world from Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors and Index Ventures. In their first three quarters of last year, the company signed over one hundred new venture and somewhat experimental customers. In the first quarter of two thousand and twelve the company has now more than doubled … [Read more...]
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