Ron Conway’s Web 2.0 tour de force, and VentureBeat’s mea culpa
It is time for our mea culpa on our coverage of Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway.
Not because Conway has become the most prolific investor in Web 2.0 companies, with more than 100 companies backed in less than a year and a half.
But because we’ve… Continue Reading
Real Girls Media raises $6M for women & Web 2.0 — but feels bubbly
Real Girls Media, a new San Francisco start-up that wants to publish content for women, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding.
We reported earlier how another company, Sugar, had raised $5 million, led by Silicon Valley high-profile venture firm Sequoia Capital, after… Continue Reading
Web 2.0 week: IM-email integration trend, Google GPS, Google Ventures, Reality Digital & more
Roundup of a busy week:
Instant messaging and email are merging, Yahoo kicks it off — Yahoo will be integrating IM through its email, Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse revealed during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. In retrospect, we’re wondering why this trend hasn’t happened earlier…. Continue Reading
Web 2.0 investment booms (data on big players & note on Intel)
Updated
Web 2.0 start-up activity is hot, and here’s the latest data.
Venture capitalists invested $455.5 million into Web 2.0 companies in the first three quarters of the year, more than twice the amount invested over the same period last year.
This comes from the latest survey by… Continue Reading
Like’s visual search very good for shopping
Like has finally launched its visual search engine company, and it’s going to appeal to the shopping set, especially women.
Users select products from images, and then Like’s search engine will find comparable items to buy. Like is owned by Riya, which we have covered before,… Continue Reading
The Web 2.0 Launch Pad
Our favorite event at the Web 2.0 Summit is the Launch Pad, where 13 new start-ups launch and give a five-minute presentation.
Richard McManus has a good, succinct review of the 13 companies, so we won’t duplicate.
We weren’t that inspired by this year’s crop,… Continue Reading
Venture capitalists open spigot — especially for Web 2.0 & energy
Updated
For the third quarter in a row, U.S. venture capitalists poured more money into private companies than they did last year. They invested $6.36 billion in the third quarter, five percent more than last year. They backed 611 companies, two percent more.
These are the… Continue Reading