RockYou between a funding rock and an acquisition
RockYou, the fast-growing online widget company — that lets you post images and slideshows in social networks and other web sites — has apparently hit a major juncture in its decision to raise funding or not. And I’m wondering if it may have decided to… Continue Reading
Aprius raises money for secretive optical company
Aprius, a Sunnyvale start-up that remains secretive, has raised an undiclosed amount of money from Lightspeed Capital Partners and New Enterprise Associates.
VentureBeat has heard it is working on an optical communications technology.
Chief executive Marc Verdiell said he isn’t ready to reveal any details. Verdiell founded… Continue Reading
Iconix sues founders of photo site RockYou — wins first round
(Update: There appears to be a settlement).
A U.S. district court judge has issued a preliminary ruling favoring Iconix in a suit alleging two of its former employees committed intellectual property theft in forming photo slideshow site, RockYou.
Iconix apparently nailed them by archiving their IM conversations.
PE… Continue Reading
MySpace founders shortchanged, Yahoo’s binge over, Timebridge, Mashery, FON, Workday
The round-up of crucial stuff in Silicon Valley:
Did MySpace’s Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson get shortchanged? — VentureBeat has heard that MySpace, the biggest success of the Web 2.0 wave so far, in terms of users, wasn’t such a great a hit for the co-founders. Word… Continue Reading
Thefind.com, another shopping search engine, aims for comprehensiveness
Updated
Thefind.com is the latest in a long list of search engine companies swinging for the fences.
The Mountain View start-up has just launched its new offering. It aims to be the most comprehensive shopping search engine on the Web. It has crawled more stores (500,000) and… Continue Reading