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| 07.08.2024 | WHITE MOUNTAINS REPORTS SECOND QUARTER RESULTS | HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. (NYSE: WTM) reported book value per share of $1,722 and adjusted book value per share of $1,777 as of June 30, 2024. Book value per share and adjusted boo... |
| 16.12.2014 | FullContact For Gmail Is The Latest Email Plug-In To Take On LinkedIn’s Rapportive | Rapportive users have not been happy about the email plug-in’s performance and changes following its acquisition by LinkedIn. Instead of rich contact info and tools for following and friending email contacts on a variety of social networks,... |
| 16.08.2014 | Yes, Rapportive Is All #$%@ed Up Right Now | It was bad enough that LinkedIn bought the incredibly useful Gmail widget maker Rapportive, which offers a lightweight CRM tool that shows your contacts’ social accounts and recent updates, then proceeded to rip out the functionality that m... |
| 26.10.2013 | Chinese Internet Giant Tencent Goes From Snapchat “Role Model” To Potential Investor | Snapchat is looking to raise up to $200 million at a valuation of $3 billion to $4 billion and one of the potential investors that founder Evan Spiegel has talked to the most is Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings, reports WSJ.
Spiegel ... |
| 13.09.2013 | Ark Launches Rapportive-Meets-Mailbox Email App In Pivot To Marketing Intelligence | Need to do some homework on who you’re emailing? You could search their name on Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn, but on mobile that’s a lot of taps, and it’s hard to know if you’ve got the right John Smith. So Ark has just launched a mobile e... |
| 13.09.2013 | Ark (YC W12) Launches Rapportive-Meets-Mailbox Email App In Pivot To Marketing Intelligence | Need to do some homework on who you’re emailing? You could search their name on Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn, but on mobile that’s a lot of taps, and it’s hard to know if you’ve got the right John Smith. So Ark has just launched a mobile e... |
| 06.09.2013 | A User’s Guide To Disrupt SF 2013 | Disrupt SF kicks off on Monday, September 9th. TechCrunch has put together an incredible array of offerings from our partners to make your Conference experience even better. As always, Disrupt SF will be a busy and boisterous event so use t... |
| 17.12.2012 | Funding Daily: Hannukah is over | 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!
This past Saturday was the last night of Hanukkah... |
| 17.12.2012 | Funding Daily: Hannukah is over | This past Saturday was the last night of Hanukkah. Alas, this week, no more golden glow of the menorah or gifts after a long day of covering funding news for me. I shall settle for posting one, final picture of a menorah.
For more funding n... |
| 25.05.2012 | Ark Raises $4.2M in Seed Funding | Ark, a San Francisco, CA-based personal search company, recently raised $4.2m in seed funding.
Backers included Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, Greylock, Intel Capital, SV Angel, Atlas Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Expansion, Ve... |
| 23.05.2012 | Google Voice creator’s startup UberConference wins Disrupt | Six companies battled it out for dominance at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield today, but only one came out in top. That company was UberConference, a promising conference call startup from the creator of Google Voice.
Craig Walker,... |
| 22.05.2012 | Ark: More Evidence That Facebook Is Interested In Search? | Ark, a new people search service, launched at TechCrunch Disrupt. It claims to let users search over a billion people bsaed on over 30 filters (such as location, high school, college, employment, interests, etc.). It indexes over a billion ... |
| 21.05.2012 | After Walking Away From Acquisition Talks With Facebook, Ark Opens Its People Search Engine | Following a jam-packed beta test and a jaw-dropping $4.2 million seed round, Ark people search is open for sign ups…at least for the next three days. Ark lets you sift through profiles on Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other services to hel... |
| 25.04.2012 | People search engine Ark grabs a $4.2M seed round | 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!
Less than a month after the company took the stag... |
| 25.04.2012 | Funding daily: Your iPhone may never die in a toilet again | At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in our “Funding d... |
| 25.04.2012 | Funding daily: Your iPhone may never die in a toilet again | 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!
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding n... |
| 25.04.2012 | Ark People-Search Engine Raises $4.2 Million | Liz Gannes over at All Things D is reporting that “people-search” engine Ark has just raised $4.2 million during its recent seed round. Ark is a website that promises to help searchers find old acquaintances and new friends based on search ... |
| 25.04.2012 | Ark People Search Raised $4.2 Million Seed Round Instead of a Series A to “Keep Complete Control” | “The series A is essentially dying. If I can get an amazing valuation at a seed round, not give up a board seat, and keep complete control of the company, why not?” This is Ark co-founder Patrick Riley’s reasoning for why instead of raising... |
| 27.03.2012 | YC Demo Day Session 5: Hackpad, FamilyLeaf, Ark, Chute, Minefold, Exec, 99dresses, Matterport | After a marathon day of really solid startup pitches, it’s officially a wrap for Y Combinator’s Winter 2012 demo day held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. We’ve been here since the beginning, with coverage of all the ... |
| 27.03.2012 | Ark’s cute penguin knows who you are, and is letting people search for you | There a new search engine in town to freak out about: Ark, a “people” search engine that scrapes social networks to compile its own profile of you.
Ark found that over 30 percent of searches were for individuals. The startup asked the quest... |
| 27.03.2012 | Y Combinator shows off 39 companies at Demo Day | Y Combinator’s semi-annual Demo Day is taking place today, and 66 companies are pitching their products at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Twenty seven of the presenting companies are still in stealth mode.
Twice a... |
| 27.03.2012 | Y Combinator shows off 39 companies at Demo Day | 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!
Y Combinator’s semi-annual Demo Day is taking pla... |
| 26.03.2012 | Ark (YC W12) launches people search done right | Google and Facebook can’t help you find which of your friends are single, or live in New York and like Radiohead, but Ark can. Today Y Combinator-backed Ark.com sails into private beta in hopes of becoming the best place on the web to do pe... |
| 25.03.2012 | Find Everyone You Can’t Google Or Facebook With YC’s Ark People Search | Google and Facebook can’t help you find which of your friends are single, or live in New York and like Radiohead, but Ark can. Today Y Combinator-backed Ark.com sails into private beta in hopes of becoming the best place on the web to do pe... |
