TweetUp is the Search Adverting Model for Tweets
By Azam on April 12, 2010 Add a Comment
TweetUp aims to provide relevant search results on Twitter using ad words. If this sounds familiar, It is because Bill Gross who pioneered search advertising is behind TweetUp. Besides being a serial entrepreneur, Bill Gross started GoTo.com and later renamed…
Continue Reading...Playlist Hires New CEO and Raises Close to $20M from the Pilot Group
By Azam on November 11, 2008 Add a Comment 
Playlist the music discovery startup has new CEO Owen Van Natta and raises close to $20M from Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group. Van Natta was intrigued by the opportunity in Project Playlist and was an early investor in the company experiencing…
Continue Reading...Vivaty is Making Scenes
By Azam on October 29, 2008 Add a Comment 
Vivaty creates 3D virtual scenes offers interesting opportunity in virtual interactivity for social networking applications or any website. Vivaty creates interesting scenes for users to interact, view media, and converse with others in a virtual environment. Vivaty allows users to bring…
Continue Reading...AdMob Adding More Money for Mobile Ads
By Azam on October 22, 2008 1 Comment
AdMob an industry leading platform provider of mobile adverting announced new investment round $15.7 M of financing. AdMob secured a new $15.7 million Series C investment round, led by Sequoia Capital’s Growth Fund with existing investor Accel Partners participating in…
Continue Reading...Revolution Healthcare:Monitoring Health Online
By Azam on October 3, 2008 Add a Comment 
Privately held online health sites Revolution Health Network and Waterfront Media agreed to merge in a deal estimated at $300M that could challenge WebMD dominance in the health care space. Recently, WebMD announced the acquisition of QualityHealth.com for $50M to…
Continue Reading...Chatter on Taxing the Text
By Azam on July 7, 2008 Add a Comment
The good news is the iPhone is cheaper that bad news is not really. The new iPhone is offering faster 3G data speeds and GPS technology among major highlights. ATT is actually subsidizing the cost of the phone estimated at $600…
Bringing Out the Big Guns Yahoo Google AOL vs Microsoft News Corp/MySpace
By Azam on April 10, 2008 Add a CommentThe interest in Yahoo is getting more interesting with teams forming around different sides. Microsoft is bringing News Corp/MySpace into the fray to bid for Yahoo. The move is quite interesting since News Corp/MySpace was looking toward a combination with…
Continue Reading...Yahoo in talks to combine with AOL
By Azam on April 9, 2008 Add a CommentYahoo and Time Warner Inc.’s AOL are close to striking a deal to combine efforts in their Internet operations, according to a WSJ report in an article citing individuals familiar with the situation
Under the proposal, Time Warner would fold its…
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