Samwer Brothers invest in Facebook
German Internet entrepreneurs, the Samwer Brothers, have become the latest new shareholders in Facebook, according to a Reuters story that cites one of the brothers, Alexander Samwer.
Samwer said the brothers have taken an undisclosed stake in the company and that they’ll be Facebook’s strategic partners in Europe.
This is notable because the brothers previously bankrolled StudiVZ, the Facebook in Germany, in 2005, shortly after Facebook became a major success. StudiVZ was sold last year to Georg… Continue Reading
Roundup: Rumors of Valueclick purchase, MochiAds, and more
1) We’re hearing rumors that AOL and News Corp. were looking to acquire ValueClick
2) TubeMogul to sell online video analytics
3) German Facebook-clone investors back again
4) Facebook settles New York child-safety probe
5) Mochi Media launches MochiAds for casual games
6) Google, Microsoft and Yahoo all reportedly courting Facebook
7) AdMob poaches Google engineer
California adds a further $125M to clean transport
9) San Francisco’s New Resource Bank receives $10M kick-start
We’re hearing rumors that AOL and News Corp. were looking to… Continue Reading
German Twitter clone aids TV show piracy
Frazr, a German-language clone of online messaging service Twitter, has not been growing fast enough to suit its founders.
Its solution: Partner with a company named Onlinetvrecorder, that plays in the legal gray-zone by allowing people to make free recordings of broadcasts from German TV stations, P2P Blog reports.
It works like this: OTR users can get updates about their favorite TV shows via Frazr. If they sign up for Frazr and send a couple messages, they’ll… Continue Reading
Imagekind, the Web site for artists, raises cash
Imagekind is a Web site that lets artists upload their artwork for sale, and gives them the freedom to sell it at whatever price they want.
The six-month-old Seattle start-up has just raised $2.6 million in venture capital, which gives it ammunition to go after the industry’s leading site, Art.com. It will announce the funding tomorrow.
Art.com dictates prices more rigidly — it doesn’t let artists set their own price, and apparently only pays them a 10… Continue Reading