Collective Intellect raises $6.6M to report on social media
Unless you haven’t used the Internet in the past three years you’ve heard of social media, the term used to broadly define the interaction between technology and social interaction. It’s so much the rage nowadays that a whole industry has bloomed around it. Collective Intellect is one of those companies tapping into the trend, doing analytical reporting on social media for major brands.
The service claims to be the only real-time provider of social media data,… Continue Reading
HiveLive raises $2.2M to help companies build social networks
HiveLive, a Boulder, Colo. company developing corporate networking software, has raised $2.2 million in a first round of funding, VentureBeat has learned.
The company raised about $1.6 million in late 2006, said CEO John Kembel, and went out for the rest at the end of 2007. All the funding comes from angel investors.
HiveLive uses social networking technology to allow companies to communicate and market to their customers — and that means it’s trying to take the… Continue Reading