| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.09.2024 | Rescue a Rescue: Agria Launches Campaign to Rehome Animals in Need From 11 UK Rescue Centres | Rescue a Rescue: Agria Launches Campaign to Rehome Animals in Need From 11 UK Rescue Centres
Wed, Sep 25, 2024 09:00 CET Report this content
Pet insurance provider, Agria, is donating £1,000 each to 11 animal rescue and rehabilitation centr... |
| 14.02.2017 | Investing in GoodBusiness | Ted Rheingold Contributor
Ted Rheingold is a profit-from-purpose entrepreneur. He was the founding COO of Tala and founder of the social networks Dogster and Catster.
Since 2001, impact VC firms have raised $13 billion to invest in companie... |
| 08.07.2016 | 10 Pet Startups That Care About Your Furry Friends | There are few things in life more important than your pet. Whether it's a cute dog, a cuddly cat, or a scaly reptile, you can't get through your day without knowing your little furball is safe, sound, and full. Fortunately, there are hundre... |
| 12.11.2013 | Quantify Your Canine: A Romp With The Whistle Tracker | ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.
It’s funny to think how much of my fitness routine revolves around my dog, Ramona the Love Terrier. Until this 11-lb. bundle of love and en... |
| 22.10.2012 | Editor’s Note: Welcome To The New ReadWrite | Welcome to the new ReadWrite. Today we are relaunching this legendary tech site with a new name, a new design and a new approach. I’m thrilled to be joining ReadWrite as the site’s new editor-in-chief, and to be teaming up with Fredric Paul... |
| 15.03.2012 | Dogster Gets A SAY Media Makeover | SAY Media launched a redesigned version yesterday of Dogster, its community for dog owners, as well as sister site Catster. Via email, the team gave me more details about their vision and where they go from here.
SAY was created after video... |
| 14.12.2011 | ReadWriteWeb acquired by SAY Media, Dan Frommer joins up as editor-at-large (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!
SAY Media has acquired technology blog ReadWriteW... |
| 08.07.2011 | Amazon and Pfizer Fuel Ever-Growing Frenzy in the Market for Pet Supplies | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As much as I hate clichés, I can’t resist using them to describe what’s been going on lately in the pet-products business. So here goes: It’s raining cats and dogs online, as ... |
| 31.05.2011 | With xoJane Launch, Say Media Embarks on Transformation into a “Passion-Based Media Company” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When VideoEgg bought its San Francisco neighbor Six Apart last fall and renamed the combined company Say Media, the reaction from many media watchers was, “Say what?” It wasn’... |
| 19.04.2011 | SAY Media Acquires Dogster (And Has More Acquisitions In The Works) | Just six months after its creation, SAY Media is already going to the dogs: it’s acquired Dogster, a web community for dog-owners that draws around 2 million unique visitors a month. It’s a move that sounds confusing at first, but also brin... |
| 09.03.2011 | Pawsley Aims to Become the Facebook, And Groupon, For Dogs | Dog lovers, this one’s for you. According to the Humane Society, there are 77.5 million owned dogs in the United States, and nearly 40 percent of households own at least one dog. And all of them are TechCrunch readers. Obviously, this is a ... |
| 10.10.2010 | TC Teardown: 13 Ways To Get To $10 Million In Revenues (Part I) | After last month’s TechCrunch Disrupt, and to provide a business companion to the popular “Lean Startup” customer development methodology, this TC Teardown focuses not on how one specific company makes money but rather seeks to provide a br... |
| 11.06.2010 | Dogster And Catster Go To The Groomer, Come Out With Freshly Curated Fur | When it comes to social sites on the Internet, Dogster and Catster have to be doing something right — they’ve been profitable for the past three years. But that doesn’t mean they should just sit back and not tweak the sites at all to offer ... |
| 10.12.2009 | Early social network Friendster sold to Malaysian payment systems vendor | Kuala Lumpur-based MOL, a payment systems seller known much better in Asia than in America, announced today its acquisition of Friendster, an early-adopter social network founded in 2002 in Mountain View. The Financial Times guesstimates th... |
| 29.09.2009 | Dogster and ICanHazCheezburger Join Ad Forces | Dogster has never been a Web 2.0 darling. At first glance a social network for pets isn’t the most innovative idea, and its audience is limited to the kinds of wackos who make name tags for their dogs at conferences or create elaborate fict... |
| 11.06.2009 | Skype Co-founders Invest In European Pet Community Network | Estonia-based United Dogs and Cats, which operates two pet-specific community websites dubbed UnitedDogs.com and UnitedCats.com, has raised €480,000 in VC funding. The money comes from individual investor Raivo Hein, the state-owned Estonia... |
| 01.04.2009 | April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I. | Wow. April Fools Is In full swing.
The Guardian goes all Twitter, ditching the printed version and the website. “Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.”
Amazon launches a brand new cloud computing service called Floating Amazo... |
| 23.02.2009 | It’s all about utility: Social media apps grow up (for advertisers, too) | [Editor’s note: Social media applications on networks like Facebook and MySpace — and more recently the iPhone — are starting to pull in real revenue. And we’re seeing some developers add new types of functionality to their offerings in ord... |
| 11.02.2009 | Online pet supply catalog FetchDog vies for dog enthusiast dollars | Happily coinciding with the Westminster Dog Show (the Super Bowl of the dog world), FetchDog, an online portal for dog owners to shop and socialize, just raised $4 million to expand the scope of its web presence and services. Right now, use... |
| 29.01.2009 | Roundup: Dean’s game conference, Google’s ISP measuring, and more | Here’s the latest action:
VentureBeat game guru Dean Takahashi’s announces his new games conference — GamesBeat 09, taking place in March, will bring together a wide range of industry leaders to look at how games are evolving and becoming m... |
| 08.01.2009 | Dogster still has its bite despite the downturn | Dogster, the social network for dogs and their owners, just converted $425,000 in bridge funds into additional first-round financing, reports VentureWire. After a profitable 2008, raising a second round isn’t as pressing, the company says —... |
| 30.07.2008 | Is social media a business? | There is value to be unlocked once the 'right' ad unit standards emerge
I am a fan and subscriber to the paper version of Technology Review, but was disappointed in their cover story in the current edition, where Bryant Urstadt looks at the... |
| 05.06.2008 | Social Gaming Pwns The Industry | This guest post is written by Jeremy Liew, a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he focuses on investments in gaming, internet and consumer enabling technology companies. Jeremy is co-producing the Social Gaming Summit ne... |
| 04.06.2008 | Wikia Search brings user-generated results to search game | reader comments with 0 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Jimmy Wales' user-powered Wikia Search is at last ready for mass consumption. The for-profit search engine that anyone can edit... |
| 20.04.2008 | Skype Co-Founding Engineers Invest In Pet Social Network | Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), the investment company established by the four co-founding engineers of Skype has invested $235,000 USD in United Dogs and Cats Ltd, an Estonian startup that offers localized social networking sites for love... |
| 28.01.2008 | Roundup of action: Opus Select, Boobik, Branson’s space warming & more | 1. Yandex, Russian search engine, grows quickly
2. Opus launches hedge fund in New York
3. Matrix goes to China
4. Dogster takes $400,000 in financing
5. Semantic search engine Powerset raises $2M
6. Pubmatic, draw ads from all networks
7. ... |
| 18.10.2007 | Pet site rivalry begins: United Dogs vs. Dogster | United Dogs & Cats, a company that manages the social networking websites for pet owners, Uniteddogs.com and Unitedcats.com, has raised an undisclosed round of funding from Ambient Sound Investments.
The Estonian company is the latest E... |
| 26.09.2007 | Koinup Launches Social Networking for Virtual Worlds | Out of Milan, Italy comes Koinup, a new social network for your virtual self. Koinup is aimed at citizens of popular massively multiplayer online worlds and games like Second Life, The Sims, and World of Warcraft. It intends to be a central... |
| 12.08.2007 | Glam to sign $1 billion ad deal — and draws critics | updated
In an era when Web advertising networks are red hot, Glam lays claim to being one of the hottest.
Focused on gathering up female-oriented Web sites, and then selling advertising on their pages, Glam says it is the fastest growing pr... |
| 20.06.2007 | Virtual Goods: the next big business model | This guest post is written by Susan Wu, a Principal with Charles River Ventures, where she focuses on digital media, software, and infrastructure. Susan is coproducing the Virtual Goods Summit this Friday at Stanford University – most of th... |
| 18.04.2007 | Could Vostu become the Facebook of Latin America? | Every day brings us a new social network for a new random niche. Got a dog? Join Dogster. A big family? Here’s Famster. The concept of starting a social network with dreams of dramatic reach has been laughable for a while.
Now we have Vostu... |
| 22.03.2007 | How To Market Your Web App | So after 1 year of fund-raising, planning and development, your shiny new
beta web app is finally ready… and now you think it’s marketing time. You want to reach thousands
of users as quickly as possible. Aha, you think, the cheapest and sh... |
| 03.10.2006 | Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet | Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard
MacManus. Note: there is also a poll at end of this post, which we invite you to participate in.
MySpace is booming in popularity; Facebook is gracing the
headlines again; Bebo is growing
incred... |
| 18.09.2006 | Why I Invested in Dogster | Some readers may have noticed that Dogster, the social network for dogs (along with sister site Catster), closed a $1 million round of financing last week. See TechMeme to catch up on the discussion if you missed it.
I was one of the invest... |
| 13.09.2006 | Dogster raises $1M to expand — Woof! — but it’s not about the dogs | About a year ago, Dogster, the social networking site for dogs, made some eyebrow-raising news: It had turned profitable.
Now Dogster has raised a round of $1 million from a group of accomplished “angel” investors, to help it step on the ga... |
| 11.07.2006 | Dogster Has Competition | Dogster (and sister site Catster), which turned two last January, now has competition in the pet social network space from a newcomer – Massachusetts based PawSpot. The new company was founded by Mark Roberge.
The PawSpot site is still in b... |
| 13.01.2006 | Dogster Turns Two | Dogster, led by founder and CEO Ted Rheingold, turned two years old yesterday. The company is located in San Francisco.
Dogster is a home page site just for dogs. You can see the page for my dog, Laguna, here as an example. A key part of th... |
| - | Необычные социальные сети: для самых умных, самых красивых, для животных и роботов | Необычные социальные сети: для самых умных, самых красивых, для животных и роботов
16 Июля, 2014, 16:00
Ольга Карпенко
4873
1
Оглушительный успех социальных сетей во многом определило тщеславие: кто же устоит перед тем, чтобы похвастаться п... |
