Meebo toolbar gets new sharing features
Instant message service Meebo is rolling out new features for the toolbar it runs on partner sites, including a simple way to share links with the people you’re IMing to. As other companies, like Facebook and Twitter, help make real-time information sharing a mainstream activity,… Continue Reading
With a working revenue stream, Meebo expands on the web
Meebo has been seeing some new users through its service for integrating instant messaging into other web sites, and it could start to make more money as a result. Seven or so partner web sites generated 4.5 million unique visitors in March, it says, but… Continue Reading
Meebo: Our chat service is working great for other sites
Do web users want instant messaging features tightly integrated into their favorite web sites? New data from instant message service Meebo suggests they do. The company introduced a white-label service last year so other sites could offer IM to users in the form of a… Continue Reading
Meebo’s chat advertising service expands to the web
Social networks like myYearbook and movie fan network Flixster already integrate Meebo’s white-label instant message service, Community IM , so their users can chat across instant message services without having to leave their sites. Those users will be getting small banner and icon ads within… Continue Reading
Can Push Notification force AT&T to rethink SMS fees?
Let me be clear right off the bat: Contrary to what some of you may believe, I do not hate text messaging. What I hate are the ridiculous fees mobile carriers push on us when we use it. These costs are so absurd that a… Continue Reading
Meebo launches Facebook chat, officially and securely this time
Instant message service aggregator Meebo is launching the first officially sanctioned version of Facebook’s IM service, Chat, to work on another web site. Basically, it lets you IM with friends who are logged into Chat on Facebook and chat with other friends on AIM, Gtalk,… Continue Reading
AOL using AIM chat to boost Bebo, challenge Meebo
AOL is working on a new initiative to make its instant message service, AIM, a central social feature to any web site, well-placed sources tell me. Starting next year, a user on a social network might use AIM to create an IM chat list from… Continue Reading
Meebo: IM friends with your MySpace, Facebook friends
Ever wanted to instant-message with all of your friends, across social networks? Starting today, you can chat with your friends on MySpace and Facebook, through online IM aggregator Meebo. The way it works is that you sign in to Meebo’s home site using your identity… Continue Reading
Meebo partners with Hearst Magazines Digital Media, teen girls rejoice and chat
Meebo, the company that powers social interaction through instant messaging and group chat on its own and partner sites, has partnered with Hearst Magazines Digital Media, a unit of Hearst Magazines. Seventeen.com and Popularmechanics.com are two of the digital media properties that are integrating Meebo’s… Continue Reading
Roundup: Yahoo developer platform launches, Wal-Mart sells G1, and more
Here’s the latest action:
So many games, so little time — The typical household video game collection boasts 48 titles, but 11 percent of gamers say they own unopened games. That’s according to a new survey by analyst firm the NPD Group.
Desktop software still… Continue Reading
Meebo announces more partners for its new white-label IM service
Instant message aggregator Meebo is now providing its technology to other sites. Called CommunityIM, the unlaunched service has been racking up an increasingly long list of large and small new partners. Today, the Mountain View, Calif. company is announcing 11 new additions, including IBeatYou, OrangeShark,… Continue Reading
Meebo shows off new interface, plans for its forthcoming community chat service
Meebo, a startup that lets you chat online with friends across rival instant message services, will next month launch a service called Community IM, a white-label platform where other sites can offer their own web-based IM services.
It’s the latest bid by the Mountain View… Continue Reading
Meebo launches instant message platform so other web sites can build branded chat services
Meebo is turning its instant message aggregator service into a “platform” that other web companies can use to build instant message features into their own sites. The new platform, officially called Meebo Community Instant Messaging, is a way for the company to take advantage of… Continue Reading
Roundup: Apple backdating probe dropped, AMD takes big write-off, Webroot founder missing
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Apple criminal backdating probes dropped: It’s a happy day for Apple, and not just because of the iPhone 3G launch. The criminal backdating probe of Steve Jobs and other Apple executives has been dropped, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Attorneys involved in… Continue Reading
Instant message service Meebo sees traffic from its embedded chat rooms on Facebook
Meebo, the company that lets you chat to people across instant message services on its site, and across IM services in chat rooms you can embed on the web, also lets third-party developers build applications for its site and use its chat rooms within other… Continue Reading
Meebo introduces interactive ads, another step towards social web sites making money
We were hard on instant message startup Meebo in March when it was raising a $25 million round at a $200 million valuation. While it has gained tens of millions of users in a couple of years, it has yet to generate significant revenue. Today,… Continue Reading
Thanks for coming to the VentureBeat party
VentureBeat threw a party last night to celebrate the launch our new digital media blog. (In truth, the blog is still a glorified tab on our main site, but we’re headed soon to a more separate offering.)
Held at the Ambassador club in San Francisco,… Continue Reading
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Meebo raises $25 million; Matt to eat his hat [Updated]
VentureBeat founder Matt Marshall would write this post but he’s busy getting ready to eat his hat.
Last month, we learned that instant message company Meebo was working on raising a round that would value it at up to $250 million. At the time, Marshall… Continue Reading
Meebo close to raising large round, starts to focus on making money
Instant-message startup Meebo is closing a round that will value it at between $175 million and $200 million, according to a Techcrunch rumor, which says the company has only made $1 million since launching in 2005. And the company’s announcement today that it’s hired a… Continue Reading
Roundup: Quattrone is back and banking, LiveJournal rebellion and more
Frank Quattrone is back as a banker — Quattrone and associates are starting a new boutique investment banking firm, called Qatalyst Group. During the (last) bubble in the ’90s, Quattrone was a top deal-maker, helping many promising (and unpromising) startups of the era go public…. Continue Reading