Roundup: Google invests in China/Tianya, gDrive, Pubmatic and more

Roundup: Google invests in China/Tianya, gDrive, Pubmatic and more

Here’s the latest action (updated):

Google buys stake in China’s Tianya, launches two Chinese social sites: Google has invested in Tianya, a Chinese online community of twenty million registered users. A Google spokesperson confirmed the investment with VentureBeat, but didn’t say how much of the company… Continue Reading

YouTube’s spoils, Yahoo answers, Danger, fuddy US companies & more

YouTube’s spoils, Yahoo answers, Danger, fuddy US companies & more

The latest roundup of the action happening in Silicon Valley:

First evidence of YouTube wealth — What do you do with your money, when you get it? One way is to spend $20 million to buy Andre Agassi’s Tiburon estate. That’s what Stuart Peterson, of Artis Capital… Continue Reading