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.
Posted by Sly Guy in Internet Marketing, business on March 10, 2010
Website owners who are quite particular with the volume of traffic and visitors they get can now disseminate that into detail after Quantcast announced its country specific data solution for its growing number of international publishers and marketers.
Quantcast audience measurement is free and by providing the marketplace with unparalleled audience insights, it enables publishers to better represent their unique audiences and empowers advertisers to reach specific online consumers with accuracy and scale.
Posted by Paul in Tech, Venture capital, Web 2.0 on March 10, 2010
Autoquake, the online used car dealer in the United Kingdom, has announced that they’ve secured £6 million in Venture Capital from Accel Partners and Highland Capital Partners, bringing Autoquake’s total funding to £20 million, or $30 million USD.
Autoquake launched in 2005 and is one of the leading online used car retailers, where it usually acquires fleets of used cars from corporations such as rental agencies, and sells them in virtual showrooms. They expect to sell 15,000 cars in 2010.
Posted by Paul in Tools, business, social media on March 10, 2010
Twitter has added new security features to its systems in order to fight an increasingly aggressive phishing threat. Twitter will scan each link for malicious destinations, as they put it in a blog post: “routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service … even if a bad link is already sent out in an email notification and somebody clicks on it, we’ll be able keep that user safe.” For starters, Twitter will start using its own URL shortening service “twt.tl” for DMs and email notifications.
After being rumored for a while, Google has launched its Google Apps Marketplace, where developers can sell and distribute their web-apps. Google offers APIs for developers to offer their cloud-based apps in the store.
Google Aps has over 25 million users, and it offers app makers a decent deal: 80/20 revenue split, where Google keeps 20% (on the Android, Google keeps 30%), + a one time fee of $100 to enroll on the program.
Posted by Sly Guy in Today on SlyVisions.com on March 9, 2010
