AVOS Systems

http://www.avos.com/

Last activity: 11.05.2014

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United States, California, San Mateo

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Feb 4, 2014	YouTube founders’ startup Avos is laying off many staff (updated)	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Updated at 4:13 p.m. Pacific with a statement fro...
Feb 4, 2014	YouTube founders’ startup Avos is laying off many staff (updated)	Updated at 4:13 p.m. Pacific with a statement from Avos. Avos Systems, the company created by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, is laying off a significant portion of its workforce, sources close to the company told VentureBeat. ...
Jun 6, 2013	YouTube Founders Hurley And Chen Have Released An Asian Clone Of Vine	AVOS Systems, the company founded by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has just launched a new app that appears to be a Chinese version of Twitter’s popular six-second video-sharing app, Vine. I hate to use the word clone, but… c...
Jun 21, 2012	YouTube Founders Launching Zeen, a DIY Online Magazine Builder, Next Week	Zeen’s splash page. (Photo: Zeen) Having already succeeded in building two of the most spectacularly successful Internet companies of the modern age–PayPal and YouTube–what on earth do you do next? We’d be inclined to buy an island and neve...
Apr 27, 2012	AVOS Systems Closes Series A Venture Capital Financing	AVOS Systems, Inc., a San Mateo, CA-based internet start up, has closed a Series A venture capital financing of undisclosed amount. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Google Ventures, with participation from Madrone Ca...
Apr 27, 2012	YouTube co-founders raise Series A for AVOS	NEA, Google Ventures back Chad Hurley and Steve Chen's latest venture In the last year, most Silicon Valley denizens have known that Chad Hurley and Steve Chen - co-founders of YouTube fame - have been working on a venture, AVOS System, tho...
Apr 7, 2012	YouTube founders’ new project will help you publish your own digital magazine	Zeen, the newest project from YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, aims to help normal people make and discover digital magazines. With our industry’s laser-like focus on gorgeous, magazine-like design, we can see this idea being...
Apr 7, 2012	YouTube Founders Take Aim at Online Magazine Publishers With Zeen	YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen’s AVOS is on the move with a new project, Zeen. Zeen, which currently exists as a minimalist website, Twitter feed and Facebook page, promises users will be able to “discover & create beautifu...
Nov 9, 2011	AVOS Acquires Link-Saving Service Trunk.ly	AVOS, the startup behind the newly re-launched Delicious.com, has acquired the link-saving service Trunk.ly, the company announced in a blog post this afternoon. AVOS, which is led by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, says that T...
Sep 30, 2011	Delicious relaunch plagued with bugs	Insiders say the relaunch was hasty. AVOS claims Delicious is 'back to beta' AVOS, the new owners of Delicious, has fessed up to rushing out their Sep. 26 relaunch, favoring quickness over quality. The AVOS blog characterized the relaunch o...
Sep 29, 2011	Delicious Fixes Firefox Extension, Starts “Bookmark Rescue Operation”	AVOS has been getting a whole lot of criticism by former Delicious users and fans – and even original founder Joshua Schachter – after the recent launch of the all-new Delicious. And granted, perhaps they would have been better off waiting ...
Sep 27, 2011	Delicious team unveils new version of the social bookmarking site	Avos, the new owner of social bookmarking site Delicious, has dusted off the previously neglected service and unveiled a slick revamped version today — complete with new features and functionality. The changes mark the first major updates t...
Sep 27, 2011	Delicious team unveils new version of the social bookmarking site	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Avos, the new owner of social bookmarking site De...
Sep 27, 2011	You Can Now Get A Taste Of The New Delicious (Screenshots + Video)	Delicious is back. Million dollar question is not: will you use the revamped social bookmarking service? But rather, will your mom, sister, and that dorky teenage kid from across the street use it? As you may have heard, Delicious was saved...
May 12, 2011	2 More Social Media Analytics Companies Get Snapped Up	Buddy Media, the Facebook content management company we profiled earlier this year, announced that it will acquire social media sharing and analytics company Spinback. And earlier this week Tap11 was acquired by AVOS, the new company from Y...
May 9, 2011	YouTube co-founders buy social media analytics firm Tap11	AVOS, the new and upcoming startup by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has announced the purchase of Tap11, an analytics platform for social media campaigns. A spinoff from Zannel, a mobile social networking startup founded i...
Apr 29, 2011	Why Every Single Person Should Take 30 Seconds to Opt-in to the Delicious Data Transfer	Earlier this week it was announced that Yahoo is selling social bookmarking service Delicious to the founders of YouTube and their new company called Avos. After the announcement was made, the companies told everyone who had ever had a Deli...
Apr 27, 2011	Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders	Yahoo has finally found a buyer for long suffering Delicious. YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired the company, says Yahoo, via a “new Internet company, AVOS.” We’re still gathering details, but here’s the official stuf...
Apr 27, 2011	YouTube founders acquire Delicious, announce (and crash) new startup	Updated It looks like social bookmarking site Delicious will have a healthy afterlife. Yahoo, which acquired the site in 2005, just announced that Delicious has been sold to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Hurley and Chen are a...

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Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning AVOS Systems, among them “YouTube founders’ startup Avos is laying off many staff (updated)” (Feb 4, 2014) and “YouTube founders’ startup Avos is laying off many staff (updated)” (Feb 4, 2014).

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Yes, AVOS Systems is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 11, 2014.