Tracking and estimating corrects web statistics isn’t particularly easy, there are plenty of trackers — Compete, Alexa, Hitwise — each with their own systems and their own rankings. Google.com has long been known as the most visited site in the US, but now, according to Hitwise, it’s been pushed to second place, with Facebook now at the top spot. Yahoo Mail is third and Yahoo is fourth.
Posted by Paul in Web 2.0, business, social media on March 15, 2010
At SXSW, the currently undergoing conference and event in Texas, Twitter is expected to unveil its much anticipated advertising platform today, which is set to mimic Google’s Adwords in many ways.
Twitter has announced a lot of new features at SXSW, including a Geo-location feature. We’ll keep you updated as soon as we know more.
Posted by Sly Guy in Internet Marketing, business on March 12, 2010
HP has officially launched its new Let’s Do Amazing ad campaigns. The ad cost HP $40 million so you have to wonder what gives. The ads were starred in by comedian Rhys Darby with Dr. Dre providing the audio support. Check out the ad videos below.
Posted by Paul in Tools, Venture capital, Web 2.0, business on March 12, 2010
LivingSocial, the Groupon competitor, has announced that they’ve raised $25 million in Venture Capital series B round from U.S. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, and Revolution, LLC.
LivingSocial are best known for their Facebook apps like Visual Bookshelf, Pick Your 5, and Polls. They’re now moving into deals and daily deals market, which is dominated by Groupon, which recently announced that they’ve raised $30 million.
Apple has finally opened the gates for pre-ordering their upcoming tablet, iPad. The new device, which pretty much works as a much larger iPhone and is build on the same platform, retails from $500. And while all iPhone apps will be compatible with the iPad, the new device will give media publishers a new platform to distribute their magazines, and, especially ebooks.
The iPad will ship to customers on April 3.
SmartPhone Technologies of Texas has sued 7 big name companies due to patent infringements. The 7 companies are Apple, Research In Motion, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Sanyo and AT&T. SmartPhone Technologies is claiming that a number of patents have been infringed and these include email syncing, Bluetooth connectivity and other technologies.
They are seeking an unspecified damages, costs and expenses. The suit was already filed at the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas.
Search engine Evri has acquired competitor Radar Networks, after Radar Networks has been trying to find a buyer for the past few months. Both companies are funded by Vulcan Capital, and while the price for the acquisition wasn’t revealed, it’s suspected to be an equity-based transaction, meaning little or no cash changed hands. radar Networks is mostly known for making Twine, a semantic web application.
Posted by Paul in Venture capital, business, social media on March 11, 2010
Betaworks, the investment company which invests iWeb projects based around realtime Web, has announced that they’ve raised another $20 million from RRE Ventures and Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures, The New York Times, Softbank Japan and Softbank NY — quite a round of important VCs.
This brings Betaworks’ total funding to $28 million. The company was launched in 2007.
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