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 $5.6M more for corporate social networks
HiveLive, one of many companies in the business of making social networking software for the corporate environment, has raised another round of funding closely following its first.
Although quite a few other companies are focused on building social networks, HiveLive has a building-block approach that lets users mix in elements of blogging, wikis and other applications. We’ve written more about it in a story on February 4th.
In the same story, we reported that the company had… Continue Reading
ARPU takes $8.7M for point-of-sale advertising
ARPU bills itself as an advertising network that adds value for businesses by offering additional services to buyers at the time of an online sale.
For instance, a consumer buying an internet access package from a service provider might be offered relevant add-ons like phone service or subscriptions to online services. The company also maintains a service portal for customers to manage their subscriptions through.
The $8.73 million funding was disclosed in a regulatory filing reported by… Continue Reading