AOL has officially closed the deal to sell social networking site Bebo to Los Angeles-based investment firm Criterion Capital Partners for $10 million. Criterion is buying the Bebo brand, its technology and 50-53 million registered users, according to sources close …
AOL’s $850 million acquisition of Bebo has proven to be a disaster — even in its final throes. While many thought AOL would simply shut down the social network for tax purposes, Bebo is in fact being sold to Los …
Men’s lifestyle newsletter Thrillist is expanding beyond email, a niche which has proven appealing to advertisers if limiting the startup’s appeal to the digerati. That could change now that the New York based startup has released a new iPhone app, …
While engineering talent has been defecting from Yahoo in droves, some are sticking around the Sunnyvale, Calif. campus and moving up. Yahoo chief architect Raymie Stata has been promoted to chief technology officer, filling the role vacated by Ari Balogh …
For many small businesses, Google’s AdWords product may be their only online marketing channel. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, New York City startup Clickable introduced its Master Campaign tool, which the company claims is the first product to allow for campaign …
While wealthy patrons can hire art consultants to search out original pieces for their collections, finding and purchasing original artwork is difficult for most people. Today at Techcrunch Disrupt, New York startup Art.sy announced their intention to bring art collecting …
The web may already have a wide array of personal investment sites, but startup Betterment believes it has something new to offer.
The company launched today at TechCrunch Disrupt. “When you go to a broker you have to pick among …
As rumors of VC funding and acquisition offers persist, blazing hot location startup Foursquare continues to grow. At Business Insider’s Startup 2010 event in New York, Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley revealed that the service is adding 15,000 users a day.…
There’s been a lot of buzz recently about Facebook’s impending launch of location features, with McDonald’s reportedly among the first brands to use location-based marketing on the service. Now Facebook-based marketing startup Context Optional is entering the arena, launching in-stream …
SecondMarket, a firm that handles auctions of illiquid assets, including stock in private companies, says it’s seen $124 million worth of trades (in over 78 transactions) in the first quarter of 2010. Facebook accounted for over 40 percent of all …
New York media marketing startup Simulmedia announced it had raised $8 million in a second round of financing. Time Warner Investments led the round while previous investors Union Square Ventures and Avalon Ventures also participated.
Simulmedia analyzes anonymized individual set-top …
With $4.75 million from Greylock Partners and several angel investors, TellApart is launching a technology that could make waves in e-commerce by nailing down which ads actually bring customers through online stores’ virtual doors.
The company helps e-commerce sites analyze …
Social marketing company Context Optional is launching an all-in-one social marketing suite for Facebook today. The move comes as Facebook fan pages and applications are increasingly becoming hubs for brand marketing, and the suite aims to help brands stand out …
The volume of web content has exploded over the last decade, producing a glut of ad inventory and dramatically reducing the ad rates publishers can charge. At the PaidContent 2010 conference today in New York, ad serving startup the Rubicon …
Social media dashboard Seesmic launched its new social media dashboard, Look, at an event today in New York City. We already wrote about Look, but at today’s event we learned new details on partnerships with Red Bull, Kodak, and the …
The end of 2009 brought a flurry of activity from venture capitalists hard at work closing funding rounds, according to a report released today by information services company ChubbyBrain.
Early-stage investments were in vogue as cautiously optimistic investors increasingly closed …
New York based startup Boxee is looking to become the conduit through which people view and share web based content on their TVs. The company’s software transforms your laptop into a set-top box like Roku. While I control Boxee using …
One of the largest problems for startups everywhere is getting the attention of and closing deals with large corporations. Tuesday night’s NextNY meetup brought together a collection of startup professionals for a conversation on how to best sell nascent technologies …
Online receipt scanning and expense management service Shoeboxed.com wants to become an essential tool for mobile businesspeople. The company recently introduced an iPhone app that lets users upload pictures of their receipts to be scanned and indexed. Using proprietary optical …
As the Chicago Climate Exchange began trading as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) on Friday, considerable doubt remained about whether the cap-and-trade system will actually effect emissions reductions. The system is plagued by poor design, merely a …
