FatTail lands $3.5M to streamline online advertising
FatTail, maker of software that helps online publishers determine which combination of ads will bring in the most money, just nabbed $3.5 million of its own in first-round funding from Velocity Interactive, Ted Meisel, former chief executive at Overture and president of Yahoo Search Marketing,… Continue Reading
It’s (Jonathan) Miller time in the tech world — just not at Yahoo
Silicon Valley’s most entertaining parlour game right now is the maneuvering around who will help govern Yahoo.
The latest intrigue centers around former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller, who was supposed to get a proxy board seat from activist shareholder Carl Icahn. However, that’s apparently not… Continue Reading
Social network ad company Lookery raises more seed capital
Lookery, the company that offers an ad network for applications social network companies such as Facebook, has raised another couple hundred thousand in seed capital, the company’s founder Scott Rafer said.
Investors include:
Marc Benioff
Tom Cole (blog)
Reid Hoffman
TAG, which is Saul (blog) and Robin… Continue Reading
Levinsohn to merge firm with Silicon Valley’s ComVentures
Ross Levinsohn, the former News Corp. deal-maker who led the acquisition of MySpace, has merged his firm with a controversial Silicon Valley firm to focus on media investments.
We first reported rumors that Levinsohn would team up with the ComVentures in October, and this evening Levinsohn… Continue Reading
PayPal’s Thiel, AOL’s Miller invest in ad management co., Clickable
Clickable, a service that lets small and medium-sized Web site owners manage their advertising, confirmed it has raised a total of $6 million in a first round of financing.
We reported earlier on the funding, which came in two portions (first here, and then here), but… Continue Reading
Levinsohn and Miller form Internet roll-up fund
Ross Levinsohn (left), the former News Corp. exec who masterminded the early acquisition of popular social networking company MySpace, has formed a new firm that will invest in Internet businesses.
Levinsohn is reportedly being joined by Jonathan Miller (below), former chief executive of America Online.
It is… Continue Reading