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| 28.07.2021 | Shopify : Announces Second-Quarter 2021 Financial Results Achieves First $1 Billion Revenue Quarter on Record GMV Helping Independent Brands Compete as Commerce Goes Digital (Form 6-K) | Shopify Announces Second-Quarter 2021 Financial Results
Achieves First $1 Billion Revenue Quarter on Record GMV
Helping Independent Brands Compete as Commerce Goes Digital
Shopify reports in U.S. dollars and in accordance with U.S. GAAP
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| 21.06.2021 | Can the military academies compete with Stanford and Harvard in venture? Two veterans are raising $50M to find out | Soldier-entrepreneurs are unfortunately still a rare breed in Silicon Valley, despite the region’s origins in Cold War defense spending. While the courage and perseverance required to fight in an overseas battlefield (or the office bureaucr... |
| 02.12.2019 | Dublin-based UtilityAR announces seed round of €600K to compete in growing AR sector | UtilityAR, an enterprise software company offering Augmented Reality (AR) integration solutions to businesses, has announced a seed round of €600K as the company positions itself to compete in the rapidly growing AR industry currently worth... |
| 14.11.2016 | Wanda Group to invest $15 billion to compete with Disney in China | Six months after promising to outperform Disney in China, the Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group said it will spend nearly $15 billion on a rival theme park and more than a dozen malls in the heart of the world’s most populous country.... |
| 27.04.2016 | Students from San Diego, Tijuana Compete for $100K in Seed Money | Student entrepreneurs from the University of San Diego and universities in Tijuana will compete for $100,000 cash at a “Shark Tank-like” competition Thursday.
The event, called the 2016 VT Entrepreneur Competition, will feature pitches from... |
| 23.12.2015 | Google+ is too much ghost town for me | As the New Year approaches, and I contemplate 2016, my online social space surely will change; my like-affair with Google+ draws close to an end. Nearly six weeks ago, the service "reimagined", as a "fully redesigned Google+ ... |
| 23.08.2015 | 6 Best Tools to Boost E-Commerce Conversions | Rocking the e-commerce world is hardly a unique goal, but with the competitive nature of the industry weighing us down, it is difficult for a newbie or a smaller business to make waves among bigger names. With the rise of large competitors ... |
| 20.08.2015 | The maverick’s guide for internet businesses looking to bypass Pay on Delivery | Share this article:
Thanks to Jumia and Konga, we can now buy something online and expect it will be delivered free of charge. The best part about Pay on Delivery is that we don’t even have to worry about paying for the good if we don’t lik... |
| 06.04.2015 | Shopping Cart Abandonment Still A Major Issue For Businesses | Shopping cart abandonment has plagued ecommerce businesses for years, and you might think that things would have gotten better as more people have grown accustomed to shopping online, technologies have improved, and a vast array of solution... |
| 20.11.2014 | Is Amazon Part Of Your Search Strategy? | If you sell something online, and you’re not showing up in Amazon search results, you might be missing out on a major opportunity. This is especially true as we enter the holiday season.
Do you have search visibility on Amazon? Is this a pr... |
| 29.08.2014 | Everything You Need for a Winning Crowdfunding Campaign (Infographic) | August 29, 2014 3 min read
Successful crowdfunding is a bit of an art. You have to win over the hearts of people enough that they are willing to open their wallets. There is no one-size-fits-all method.
What platform should you use? While i... |
| 20.11.2013 | Taboola leads market for paid content discovery and will make $100M this year | 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!
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| 20.11.2013 | Taboola leads market for paid content discovery and will make $100M this year | Taboola is raking in the moola. (Aren’t bad rhymes the best?)
The startup, which powers a content recommendation platform, revealed that it crossed $100 million in annual run rate, which means that if it keeps making money at its current ra... |
| 31.01.2013 | Noodz, Crafts and Cats: A Tour of BuzzFeed’s Search Referrals | Yesterday, Betabeat asked Compete for traffic data on BuzzFeed—the richly-funded purveyor of image-heavy listicles, breeding ground for future New Yorker scribes and everything in between—and when the spreadsheet arrived, it came wrapped in... |
| 12.12.2012 | Cash: Rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated | This guest post was written by Danny Shader, CEO and founder of PayNearMe.
Lee Ault, CEO of the first check guarantee service, TeleCredit (which subsequently morphed into FiS Global), once described the moment his business exploded in the e... |
| 21.11.2012 | Yes, MySpace Is Launching A Spotify Competitor. It Has No Choice | MySpace is planning to get into the music subscription business – because let’s face it, it’s got to do something.
The move into music subscriptions has been rumored for quite some time, but Monday Business Insider published a leaked slide ... |
| 15.11.2012 | As Recipe Sharing On Pinterest Explodes, Foodily Revamps To Focus On Social | Foodily, a startup that began as a recipe search site before arriving on iPhone in late 2011, is today rolling out a major revamp of its user interface that puts even more emphasis on social interactions. The company is calling the combinat... |
| 22.10.2012 | Web tracking firm settles charges it collected passwords, financial data | reader comments 31 with 19 posters participating
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| 03.10.2012 | Tara Hunt and Buyosphere: Sometimes the startup magic just doesn’t happen | 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!
What happens when the startup you’ve invested you... |
| 03.10.2012 | Tara Hunt and Buyosphere: Sometimes the startup magic just doesn’t happen | What happens when the startup you’ve invested your metaphorical blood, your sweat, and your all-too-real tears into just isn’t taking off?
Last week Tara Hunt, the chief executive of Buyosphere, announced on LinkedIn that she was taking a J... |
| 30.07.2012 | Bing Improves Its Facebook Integration With Friend Tagging | Microsoft’s Bing search engine launched its social sidebar last month and the company has been adding features and support for additional social networks ever since. The core of Bing’s social efforts, however, is its Facebook integration an... |
| 10.07.2012 | Pinterestification! Sociable Labs Signs Up Wine.com, 19 Others For Its Pinterest-Like EverShare Offering | The Pinterest effect on e-commerce sites continues: online wine retailer Wine.com, a company with $67 million in annual revenue, is adding a social shopping component to its website which not only looks like Pinterest, but is also powered b... |
| 23.06.2012 | Ahead of Google I/O, Android is the tortoise winning the race | The annual Google developer convention I/O will take place next week. Like Apple's WWDC and Microsoft's TechEd, it is the big summer event where the world is given a look at each of the respective companies' plans for the coming year.
Googl... |
| 20.06.2012 | Phoenix Based Companies Compete to Win $250,000 Small Business Grant | PRESS RELEASE: Phoenix Based Companies Compete to Win $250,000 Small Business Grant
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| 15.06.2012 | Hitwise: Google US Search Share Down 5% In The Last Year; Bing, Yahoo Gained | Google is still by far the most dominant search engine in the U.S., but in the last year it actually lost some momentum while Yahoo and especially Microsoft’s Bing both saw increases, according to figures out today from Experian Hitwise, an... |
| 20.04.2012 | Video Social Network Runfaces Takes On Sean Parker’s Airtime | In 2009 a Russian teenager named Andrey Ternovskiy created random video chat website ChatRoulette, which at its peak in March 2010 attracted 1.8 million unique monthly visitors, but suffered from offensive content. The phenomenon inspired S... |
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| 12.03.2012 | Twitter Acquires Posterous, Tumblr’s Valley-Based Competitor | Twitter announced today that it has acquired Posterous, the B-List blogging platform and temporary homepage for DJ sensation Paul Phusion. Once heralded as one of the “Hottest Silicon Valley Companies,” Posterous failed to successfully diff... |
| 29.12.2011 | Facebook Started Saturating The US Market In 2011 | Most third party web measurement firms have provided a steady drumbeat of positive growth news for Facebook over the years, as the company has gained tens of millions of users in the US and around the world. But now the social network appea... |
| 22.11.2011 | Chow Down All You Like: Black Friday From the Comfort of Your Couch | PayPal predicts that the real spike in holiday shopping won’t happen on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, but rather on Thanksgiving Day right after dinner. And this shopping will all be online, from the couch. PayPal says that shoppers will pa... |
| 29.09.2011 | Compete: Social Networks Grow Audience As Netflix, Daily Deal Sites Lose Traffic | Compete.com, a Kantar Media company, today released its ranking of the top 250 websites for August 2011 (click here for the top 50).
We can’t repeat this often enough, but take these stats with a grain of salt when it comes to accuracy.
We’... |
| 17.03.2011 | Microsoft cleans up in both U.S. search and video traffic | Online market research company comScore released its Video Metrix online video content ranking for the month of February. The rating tallies up the total online video audience for the U.S., determines how much it consumes per capita, and ra... |
| 09.02.2011 | Compete Is In A Total Nosedive, According To Compete | When it comes to public-facing web analytics, basically, they all suck. We in the press are sometimes forced to use tools like Alexa and Compete for comparison’s sake, but using either for absolute numbers is extremely flawed and basically ... |
| 30.11.2010 | FitnessKeeper scoops up $1.1M to build out fitness app | Startup FitnessKeeper, the parent company of the RunKeeper smartphone app, has raised $1.11 million and will use the money to build out its nine-person operation and dive into the highly competitive world of now-fashionable mobile fitness a... |
| 27.10.2010 | Compete’s Top 50 Sites: Bing Grows 108% | Web-traffic analysis site Compete has come out with a ranking of the top 50 sites for September that gives a quick look at the ever-changing online landscape.
While there may be arguments about the accuracy of any given traffic analysis, if... |
| 19.10.2010 | LivingSocial acquires Urban Escapes to take lead in daily deal war | Online daily deal site LivingSocial announced today that it has acquired social adventure company Urban Escapes in a bid to give members more bang for their buck as they search for activities that fit their lifestyles without breaking the b... |
| 15.09.2010 | Want to Buy Facebook? 20 Bucks And It’s Yours | A Swedish couple has built a platform for virtually trading 21 of the hottest companies on the Web, including Google, Twitter, Foursquare, Amazon and and Groupon.
Gigapie launched today, with Facebook priced at 200 credits, or $20. Flickr i... |
| 26.07.2010 | How to Create a Web Content Strategy For Your Company | These days, it’s no longer enough to have an inviting storefront and amazing products on your shelves, whether physical or digital. Fueled by social media, with which even the search engines scrambling to keep up, the Web is now happening i... |
| 21.07.2010 | 10 most trafficked Web sites in Philadelphia (maybe) | July marks the middle of the calendar year, quarterly reports and time to evaluate progress on yearly goals.
At the beginning of 2010, we looked at 10 competitors and their relative web traffic. With six months done, we wanted to make the f... |
| 16.07.2010 | Reddit Calls Out “Experts” for “Misunderestimating” Its Traffic | A week ago, social news and bookmark site Reddit sent out a call for help to its users. While some questioned who would just give money to a website for an undefined service in return, more than 6,000 people paid to join Reddit Gold.
Now, t... |
| 06.07.2010 | Sorry, Steve Jobs, search is happening on smartphones | Today, Compete put to shame Apple CEO Steve Jobs' ridiculous April assertion that "search is not happening on phones." According to the analyst firm, search is indeed happening on mobile phones, and, as I'll explain, it's one majo... |
| 30.06.2010 | Woot + Amazon = Real-Time Social Shopping | Shopping giant Amazon bought online auction phenomenon Woot today, and given the relative sizes of the companies, it can only be a move made with long-term Amazon strategy in mind. Earlier this afternoon we wrote about the deal as a victory... |
| 25.02.2010 | How Does Compete Get Its Web Traffic Data? At Least One Way Sounds Very Sketchy. | A month ago, Jason Calacanis went on a rant about why everyone should boycott comScore. He felt they were using sketchy tactics to bully people into their pay-to-play model for measuring web analytics. He also noted that their free competit... |
| 24.02.2010 | Social Media Metrics: Why Am I Counting Tweets Again? | Earlier today, conversation tracking site UberVu launched Compare. The service allows you type your name and a competitor’s name into search boxes to produce information on your competing brand conversations on Twitter, Blogger, Friendfeed,... |
| 24.02.2010 | Simple website builder Weebly goes international | Weebly, the most popular among a batch of startups offering easy-to-use website building tools, is settings its sights overseas with the launch of its first foreign-language services.
The San Francisco company already offered country-specif... |
| 23.02.2010 | Ten Philadelphia competitors and their January Web traffic | Perhaps one of the most influential realities of the Web is metrics. The details of traffic and audience online have so rapidly become expansive that they have likely not yet been entirely harnessed.
Arguments still rage around the accuracy... |
| 28.12.2009 | IGN comes out on top among biggest game news sites | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Video game sales are hurting because of the recession, but gamers are still consuming an awful lot of news about video games.
Traffic a... |
| 28.12.2009 | IGN comes out on top among biggest game news sites | Video game sales are hurting because of the recession, but gamers are still consuming an awful lot of news about video games.
Traffic at the top 50 gaming sites grew to 20.2 million unique visitors, up 23 percent year over year in November,... |
| 28.11.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: World’s Most Influential Websites, Thanksgiving Apps, New AOL Branding, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze a list of the most influential websites in the world, look back on the past decade of e-commerce, suggest a list of products that Twi... |
| 08.10.2009 | Twitter Stretches Its Wings: International Versions Take Flight | Twitter has announced it will soon grow from its current offering of English and Japanese only to include versions in French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
However, as their translation team now comprises just five staffers, Twitter is aski... |
| 19.09.2009 | Seattle, Six Finalists Compete For $100,000 Investment Fund | Six companies out of twenty-eight presenters have been chosen to compete for a total of $100,000 in guaranteed investment funds at the ZINO Society’s ZINO Zillionaire Investment Forum (ZZIF).
Two funds of $50,000 will be awarded next month,... |
| 29.08.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Augmented Reality Apps, Top U.S. Websites, Tweeting Teens, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we explain why augmented reality is ramping up (and look at three new iPhone examples), analyze the top websites in the U.S., check out new Twit... |
| 31.07.2009 | Open data is the future of web discovery | Twitter cofounders have talked about the importance of discovery in interviews and at conferences over the last several months. This week a new design for Twitter.com went live featuring top tweets and a search box to find more of what you ... |
| 31.07.2009 | Open data is the future of web discovery | 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!
Twitter cofounders have talked about the importan... |
| 15.07.2009 | Bing Gains Some Search Share (From Yahoo) | All the fuss about Microsoft finally posing a credible challenge to Google with Bing, its new search engine, misses the real primary target of Microsoft’s search efforts: Yahoo. Microsoft knows it can’t unseat Google anytime soon, but it do... |
| 14.07.2009 | Google won't be affected by Bing | Survey conducted by J.P. Morgan shows Microsoft's new search engine not making a big impact on users
Bing had nearly 50 million unique visitors in the month of June alone, according to stats from Compete.com.
But is Microsoft’s new search e... |
| 11.07.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Tim Berners-Lee Interview, Google Chrome OS, Social Network Stats, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we feature an in-depth interview with the inventor of the Web Tim Berners-Lee. We also cover and analyze the surprise announcement of a Chrome OS ... |
| 09.06.2009 | Compete: Facebook US Traffic Nearing Google, Yahoo | Web analytics firm Compete has released its data for the month of May, and as Justin Smith over at InsideFacebook has already pointed out, US traffic to Facebook.com has increased by nearly 8% to 82.9 million unique visitors last month, wit... |
| 22.05.2009 | One reason why StockTwits is growing: Those Twitter ads | Twitter‘s management seems to have mixed feelings about advertising. But here’s anecdotal evidence that those text ads it has been running lately are worth something.
StockTwits, a site for sharing stock-related tweets, saw a sharp uptick i... |
| 24.04.2009 | Most G1 Owners Love Apps — But Not All | Some numbers we published yesterday showed that while iPhone owners (not surprisingly) love to download apps, owners of other smartphones do not. As we noted, the numbers seemed a bit incomplete since the Android platform wasn’t represented... |
| 23.04.2009 | Zero Remains A Popular App Download Number Among Non-iPhone Owners | Apps on the iPhone are huge. We know that. As if we needed more proof, Apple moved its billionth app earlier this afternoon. But some recent data from Compete suggests that smartphone owners who don’t have an iPhone, apparently don’t love a... |
| 20.04.2009 | Pushed By Celebrities, Twitter Is Poised To Double Its Monthly Traffic Once Again | I know, you’re sick of Twitter data. But more keeps rolling in showcasing just how massive last week was for Twitter . The Kutcher/CNN race to a million on top of Oprah showcasing the service on Friday, likely was the biggest week ever for ... |
| 15.04.2009 | The Future of Social Media Monitoring | Ten years ago the ClueTrain manifesto said that “markets are conversations” but today a more pertinent statement could be that conversations are becoming markets – or that there’s a market for monitoring conversations. A whole class of tech... |
| 13.04.2009 | A Billion iPhone Apps, Mostly To Talk About The Weather? | As Apple’s App Store continues its countdown to 1 billion apps downloaded, Compete has released the results of a rather humorous study of iPhone users. Apparently, for all the bells and whistles the combination of the iPhone and the App Sto... |
| 13.04.2009 | Survey: Everyone’s using their iPhone to check Facebook and the weather | Despite all the excitement over flashy applications like mobile games and location-based social networks, iPhone owners are actually more interested in checking the weather, according to a survey from Compete. At the same time, when it come... |
| 11.04.2009 | Details of HTC Android phones emerge through new style of marketing | Two days ago T-Mobile sent an email to Engadget to invite them to an press event on April 21st. Billed as a “private launch event,” it has tech blogs wondering what the news will be: Will the company be announcing a new Android device? Or m... |
| 07.04.2009 | Twitter, Facebook traffic up | Article content
Social networking sites Twitter and Facebook chalked up healthy gains in March, according to statistics compiled by Compete, a Web analytics company that measures U.S. Internet traffic.
Twitter recorded a monthly hike in uni... |
| 03.04.2009 | Chat startup Chatterous gets widgets, more users | Chatterous, the startup that tries to simplify communication by letting you participate in chats through whatever medium you choose, has announced some new ways to interact with its service, including an embeddable chat widget and a group a... |
| 20.03.2009 | Can Digg Keep Up With Facebook? | Looking at a regular graph of traffic data from Digg and Facebook, it would be easy to assume that Digg is lagging far behind Facebook’s staggering growth. However, Compete just produced a very different graph that compares traffic at Digg ... |
| 17.03.2009 | Study: EBay Needs to Return to Its Roots | Over the last year, eBay has been trying to slowly move users away from its auctions and more towards purchases of fixed-priced items. Last week, however, eBay announced that it plans to return to its roots and that the company wants to put... |
| 16.03.2009 | Personal finance site Mint hits 1M users | Updated
Mint, a site that allows users to track their bank, credit card, and investment accounts through a single free service, just announced that it signed up its 1 millionth user on Sunday.
The news is just the latest sign of the Mountai... |
| 14.03.2009 | Facebook Connect for iPhone: Great, or Yet Another Privacy Threat? | Facebook today announced Facebook Connect, its proprietary technology which allows the sharing of data between Facebook and third party applications, can now be integrated into iPhone and iPod Touch applications. This new feature will work ... |
| 06.03.2009 | Roundup: VC departure complications, Facebook ToS issues not stopping growth, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Pierre Lamond’s departure from Sequoia: It’s complicated — The famed venture capitalist left top investing firm Sequoia Capital earlier this week to join fellow investor Vinod Khosla — but his defection doesn’t app... |
| 05.03.2009 | Get Satisfaction Leads Among Idea Aggregators | Finding new ways to reach, engage with, and learn from customers is a cornerstone of Enterprise 2.0. The idea and suggestion management space is one slice of that effort, and in this series we’ll review the major players in this space and l... |
| 03.03.2009 | StatCounter Launches Global Stats Tool: Tracks OS, Browser, and Search Engine Market Share | StatCounter, one of the larger free online stats services, just released a new online research tool that monitors the market share of search engines, browsers, and operating systems. StatCounter Global Stats‘ focus is different from other s... |
| 19.02.2009 | The Top 21 Twitter Applications (According to Compete) | We’ve accumulated a list of the twenty most popular Twitter applications, based on monthly unique visitor data from Compete.
Twitpic, an app that lets users share photos on Twitter, took the top spot with 1,236,828 unique visitors in Januar... |
| 14.02.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Overtakes MySpace, OpenID Success, Kindle 2, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look at the latest social networking statistics showing that Facebook has overtaken MySpace, review a product that’s had great success using Op... |
| 25.01.2009 | The Unforeseen Consequences of the Social Web | The social Web has given users great power: the ability to create and share content with people around the world – easily and quickly. The problem of course, is that power is often not compatible with effective and clear thinking. The thoug... |
| 14.01.2009 | Wesabe wants to help users cut back spending | The news is full of stories about consumers cutting back on spending — but if you’re anything like me, you’re rehashing your budget in the most disorganized and piecemeal way possible. Wesabe, a website that lets you manage and seek advice ... |
| 15.12.2008 | Jason Calacanis’ “Project A” is surprisingly compelling Mahalo Answers | Today, Jason Calacanis launches Mahalo Answers — the latest project from Mahalo, his “human powered search engine”. Mahalo Answers is a possibly clever cross between Yahoo’s free-wheeling Q&A bonanza at Yahoo Answers, and Google’s highl... |
| 10.12.2008 | Photo Books and the Power of Oprah | Photo books are clearly one of the hot gifts this year, and web analytics firm Compete took a closer look at the state of this market today. According to Compete, traffic to all of the major photo printing sites like Kodak Gallery, Shutterf... |
| 14.11.2008 | Compete: Google Docs & Spreadsheets Keeps Growing, But User Engagment is Flat | It’s been a little bit more than two years now since Google merged Google Spreadsheets with Writely, and while there has been a lot of talk about online office suites, the latest data from Compete indicates that Google Docs & Spreadshee... |
| 14.11.2008 | Will Office 14 eat Google Docs’ lunch? Not necessarily | Google Docs & Spreadsheets, the search giant’s suite of online office software, became available to the general public a little more than two years ago. As a belated birthday present, analytics company Compete just released some data to... |
| 17.10.2008 | Consumers Want to Use Mobile Banking, But Few Actually Do | According to the latest data from Compete, consumers are slowly warming up to the idea of mobile banking, but this growth is slowed by the fact that most users, even though they already use online tools to interact with their bank, never us... |
| 24.09.2008 | Platforms and developers, part three: What platforms like Facebook can do to expand the developer ecosystem | [Editor’s note: Facebook and Apple have each built formative platforms for third-party developers over the last year. They’ve created new opportunities for outside companies to make money — but now rivals are also offering platforms to woo ... |
| 08.09.2008 | AOL May Try to Bring RSS and Lifestreaming Mainstream | RSS and centralized integration of activity data from multiple social networks are the kinds of technologies that only early adopters are interested in, right? AOL has the exact opposite kind of audience, does it not? Those assumptions appe... |
| 03.09.2008 | The Facebook redesign is slowly being accepted as it slowly rolls out | Will Facebook users like the site’s new redesign? The company made a big bet by re-orienting users to feeds of information. The new version is already available as an opt-in option, and it’s slated to fully replace the old version later thi... |
| 20.08.2008 | TripAdvisor Invests In Vacation-Home Review Site FlipKey | TripAdvisor is in an expansive mood. In July, it acquired two small startups, VirtualTourist (user-gen travel guides) and OneTime (booking price comparison). And today it announced a majority investment in FlipKey, a guest review site for v... |
| 10.07.2008 | Real estate search company Trulia raises $15M more | Trulia, the real estate search startup backed by high-profile venture firms Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, has raised $15 million in additional funding, bringing its total financing to $33 million.
To be honest, a lot of real estate si... |
| 21.06.2008 | Checking Out Google Trends For Websites | I need to start this post with an important disclosure. I was on the Board of ComScore for nine years from the summer of 1999 until earlier this month. And I am still a shareholder in ComScore through the Flatiron partnerships. In no way is... |
| 20.06.2008 | Google Faces Off With Compete, Alexa, Comscore, Quantcast (And Soon Firefox) | Google has just introduced Google Trends For Websites, a new tool that lets users take a peek at the traffic data from sites around the web. The new feature pits Google against a number of well-established players in the traffic data space,... |
| 19.05.2008 | Is Twitter about to hit the big time? | Twitter – a social network that allows users to post short messages to their online friends by SMS or instant messenger – could be about to hit the web 2.0 mainstream, new usage data suggests.
According to web analytics firm Compete, Twitte... |
| 14.05.2008 | Print 2.0 Experiment Brijit Goes Belly Up | In a tragic and surprising turn of events, Brijit, one of the most interesting startups on the web, has announced that the company has run out of money and will cease operations until more funding is found. Brijit offered 100 word summaries... |
| 13.05.2008 | Mozilla Stealth Data Project Could Be Just What The Internet Needs | One of the most frustrating tasks about my job is finding reliable traffic and other usage data about websites.
But today, Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP Engineering Mike Schroepfer said they may fix that problem in the future, via the massi... |
| 08.05.2008 | Quantcast Launches Demographic Search | Website traffic monitoring service Quantcast has launched a new search function that lets logged-in users search for sites that have particular audience demographics. Interested in finding websites that get a lot of traffic from young, chil... |
| 24.04.2008 | ReviewGist.com Collates and Snips Product Reviews | Sites like ReviewGist are great for consumers but not so great for gadget bloggers. By collecting a number of reviews and adding on meta-date like price and features, they automatically create collections of data what are actually quite use... |
| 24.04.2008 | ReviewGist.com Collates and Snips Reviews | Sites like ReviewGist are great for consumers but not so great for gadget bloggers. By collecting a number of reviews and adding on meta-date like price and features, they automatically create collections of data what are actually quite use... |
| 16.04.2008 | Alexa Updates Its Web Rankings – Still Not Good Enough | Amazon-owned Alexa has announced a major update to its 10 year old web ranking system. Previously, Alexa’s rankings were based solely on data collected from the downloadable Alexa Toolbar, but now the company is aggregating data from multip... |
| 11.04.2008 | Stats: Obama Still Winning On the Web | We all know by now that if you could vote on the Internet, Barack Obama would already be president. His Website has always attracted more traffic than those of other candidates. Unaffiliated video-endorsement site YouBama popped up spontane... |
| 15.03.2008 | Songkick Launches "Alexa For Bands" | London based Songkick, a Y Combinator startup that launched in October 2007, aims to help music artists pack fans into concerts. They’ve been developing a number of new products that are slated for launch soon. But one that they quietly lau... |