| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.02.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 2/20/16 | Amazon bought Emvantage; Fandango picked up Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster; Google acquired Pie
Amazon acquired Indian payments company Emvantage. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
The Emvantage team will be coming to work at Ama... |
| 20.05.2013 | Pinterest adds more info into pins, puts them on mobile | Users to get more info on products, recipes and movie pins, partners include Netflix, eBay and Etsy
Pinterest, like all social networks needs to to make itself attractive to advertisers and brands. Earlier this year, the site added a new so... |
| 04.09.2012 | With An Eye Toward Video Discovery, Flixster Relaunches To Help Users Navigate The World Of Movies Online | So here’s the good news: There are more movies available online than ever before. And the bad news: There are also more movie services than ever. What that means for consumers is a hugely fragmented experience, where they never know where o... |
| 04.09.2012 | Flixster spruces up its web app with better discovery, UltraViolet store & more | 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!
Movie-focused service Flixster is releasing a new... |
| 08.04.2012 | Hooking Users In 3 Steps | Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal is the founder of two acquired tech startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. Nir blogs at NirAndFar.com.
The truly great consumer technology companies of the past 25 years have all had on... |
| 04.08.2011 | Flixster Collections aggregates your entire video library into a single app | Digital video’s popularity means many consumers have a fragmented library of TV shows and movies on several platforms — making it much more difficult to manage than the several shelves of DVDs they might have had in the past.
The new Flixst... |
| 04.08.2011 | Flixster Collections aggregates your entire video library into a single app | 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!
Digital video’s popularity means many consumers h... |
| 04.05.2011 | Warner Bros. beats out Yahoo to buy Rotten Tomatoes owner Flixster | Social movie site Flixster’s long acquisition saga has now come to an end. Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Group announced this morning that it has acquired the site, a deal that also includes the popular movie ratings aggregator Rotten ... |
| 04.05.2011 | Warner Bros. Acquires Social Movie Site Flixster (And Rotten Tomatoes) | Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has acquired social movie discovery site Flixster. The acquisition also includes Rotten Tomatoes, a movie review site Flixster acquired from News Corp. last year. Under the terms of the deal, Flixster w... |
| 16.03.2011 | Rotten Tomatoes owner Flixster in acquisition talks with Yahoo, others | Social movie site Flixster, which purchased the popular movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes early last year, is in acquisition talks with Yahoo and other potential buyers, sources tell All Things Digital.
The sources say the acquisition... |
| 25.01.2011 | Facebook CTO Bret Taylor: "Mobile Devices Are Inherently Social" | Here at Inside Mobile Apps conference, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor talked about how mobile will be Facebook’s primary focus in 2011, mainly because “mobile devices are inherently social,” he said. Currently Facebook has 1/3 of its almost 600M ... |
| 03.01.2011 | App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry | There has already been plenty of data out there suggesting that Apple had a monster holiday season. We’ll know for sure in a few weeks when they announced their earnings. For now though, we have to go by what third-party developers are seei... |
| 07.10.2010 | Flixster CEO's Age-And-Taste-Inappropriate Love Of Vanessa Hudgens | A tipster today emailed to point out that Flixster CEO Joe Greenstein gave his own app a five star rating on iTunes, and then went on to trash the competition. Both Movie Night Out and Showtimes got one stars. “It tries to do too much and f... |
| 29.08.2010 | Bubble Blinders: The Untold Story of the Search Business Model | Ali Partovi is an angel investor, startup advisor, and serial entrepreneur. He co-founded iLike, acquired by Myspace in 2009, and previously LinkExchange, acquired by Microsoft for $265mm in 1998. His portfolio has included such successes a... |
| 20.08.2010 | Flixster Hits 20 Million App Downloads. Top Movie App On iPhone, Android, And BlackBerry | It was almost exactly two years ago that Flixster bought one of the original popular movie apps for the iPhone from a college sophomore. Now, two years later, their Flixster iPhone app is the top movie application on the platform. It’s also... |
| 28.06.2010 | Apperang Pays You Cash to Download iPhone Apps… Ka-Ching! | Yep, you read that right. Today W3i is announcing Apperang, a new service that will pay users to download mobile applications.
Apperang builds on the pay-per-acquisition model that we’ve seen succeed with companies like TapJoy. As opposed t... |
| 20.03.2010 | The Movie Tracker joins crowded movie recommendation space | Movie-recommendation startup The Movie Tracker launched recently, adding to a crowded recommendation and social media space that includes TasteKid, The Auteurs, Trusted Opinion, Jinni, Flixster, and of course Netflix, among others. The site... |
| 10.02.2010 | 54% of US Internet users on Facebook, 27% on MySpace | December 2009 data from comScore puts Facebook’s unique US visitor count at nearly 112 million. With a total estimated US Internet population of 205 million, that means that 54% of all Internet users are on Facebook. MySpace captured a stil... |
| 10.02.2010 | 54% of US Internet users on Facebook, 27% on MySpace | 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!
December 2009 data from comScore puts Facebook’s ... |
| 08.02.2010 | Updated: Flixster Issues $12.5 Million In Shares To News Corp For Rotten Tomatoes | Movie ratings site Flixster raised issued $12.5 million in new shares funding, according to an SEC filing. The last time Flixster raised money was a $5 million Series B in April, 2008. The new round brings the company’s total capital raised... |
| 08.02.2010 | Flixster issues $12.5M in stock to News Corp (updated) | Update: Flixster actually didn’t raise any new money, instead the SEC filing below comes from the $12.5 million in shares the company issued to News Corp. for its Rotten Tomatoes purchase. Original story below.
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| 08.02.2010 | Flixster issues $12.5M in stock to News Corp (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!
Update: Flixster actually didn’t raise any new mo... |
| 04.01.2010 | Movie review site Flixster buys rival Rotten Tomatoes from Murdoch | 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!
Movie review-and-view site Flixster has agreed to... |
| 04.01.2010 | Movie review site Flixster buys rival Rotten Tomatoes from Murdoch | Movie review-and-view site Flixster has agreed to purchase popular review site Rotten Tomatoes from IGN, a division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Much like the recent sale of Photobucket, the move is part of News Corp’s plan to jettison pr... |
| 04.01.2010 | News Corp. Unloads Rotten Tomatoes Onto Flixster | News Corp is unloading more of its digital assets. This time it’s the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, which is being acquired by startup Flixster, which has the most popular movie app for the iPhone and other mobile devices. The purchase... |
| 04.01.2010 | Flixster acquires Rotten Tomatoes | Social database for movie reviews merges with a big movie review aggregator Movie lover community site Flixster has purchased film information aggregator, Rotten Tomatoes, from IGN Entertainment, a subsidiary of News Corps., for an undisclo... |
| 03.01.2010 | Top Ten Digital M&A Deals For 2010 | Editor’s note: As the capital markets heat up and the economy continues to rebound, the deal flow is starting to open up again. We’ve already given you our top ten IPO candidates for 2010. In this guest post, Kelly Porter, an M&A expert... |
| 29.12.2009 | Flixster Users Name Top 2009 Movies: Avatar, Star Trek And The Blind Side | Forget the Academy Awards and the professional movie critics. Flixster users reviewed movies 55 million times in 2009, says the company, and they’ve released the top movies based on those ratings. At the top is Avatar with a 92% like rating... |
| 09.11.2009 | Ten Apps All New Android Users Should Check Out | While the tech-loving world continues to debate the merits of the Droid following its launch on Friday, it’s pretty safe to say that the Android platform has seen a pretty hefty influx of users as of late. In the past two weeks alone, we’ve... |
| 27.10.2009 | Flixster crosses 8 million mobile users, celebrates with app updates for Android and BlackBerry | Flixster, a social networking site for movie fans, is doing pretty well for itself in the mobile space. Name any smartphone platform, and there’s a good chance that the Flixster app has spent some time on it’s top download charts. iPhone? Y... |
| 17.07.2009 | Macrovision just changed its name to Rovi to go with its fancy Liquid on-screen Guide | I’ve never used a Tivo, but I hear good things, especially with respect to its on-screen guide. I have subscribed to Time Warner Cable and DirecTV, and I can tell you that their on-screen guides are basic at best, junk at worst. There’s mor... |
| 09.07.2009 | MobileBeat2009 on marketing: Velti CEO Alex Moukas, former iPhone marketer Bob Borchers, and more | Our MobileBeat2009 conference next Thursday in San Francisco will feature speakers from the entire ecosystem: The top carriers, device-makers, mobile operating system companies, venture capital firms, start-ups and content providers.
Last b... |
| 09.07.2009 | MobileBeat2009 on marketing: Velti CEO Alex Moukas, former iPhone marketer Bob Borchers, and more | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Our MobileBeat2009 conference next Thursday in San Francisco will feature speakers from the entire ecosystem: The top carriers, device-... |
| 02.07.2009 | New media companies should emphasize 'media' | Place significant attention on revenue-generating activities
AdAge has a good article today about how AOL has been attacking Web publishing where it notes:
In the heady days of early 2000, the mega-merger of AOL and Time Warner heralded the... |
| 08.05.2009 | Facebook platform developers could see $500M in revenue this year | A growing number of game makers on Facebook are making money from virtual goods — from poker chips to virtual clothes that users can buy or earn while playing gaming applications with their friends on Facebook. The combined ecosystem of the... |
| 23.03.2009 | Meebo’s chat advertising service expands to the web | Social networks like myYearbook and movie fan network Flixster already integrate Meebo’s white-label instant message service, Community IM , so their users can chat across instant message services without having to leave their sites. Those ... |
| 23.03.2009 | Interview: Meebo CEO on iPhone chat app, Push Notifications | reader comments 7 with 7 posters participating
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| 18.02.2009 | The Filter raises more money so it can recommend more content | The Filter is one of many companies that recommends media to users based on their personal tastes. While internet radio services like Pandora filter music, and community-review sites like Flixster help you find movies based on what your fri... |
| 29.01.2009 | Meebo Community IM (Finally) Prepares To Open The Floodgates | Meebo’s Community IM, which effectively offers websites a Facebook Chat-like messaging platform “in a box”, looks like it’s finally ready for the masses. The product was first unveiled last July, and has announced partnerships with over a d... |
| 19.01.2009 | New Year's Resolutions from startup CEOs | From getting simple to realistic to showing the love
I asked my CEOs what their New Years Resolutions were. Here is what they resolved:
Jonathan Kibera of specialty ecommerce company Mercantila was alliterative in his focus on revenue:
Simp... |
| 23.12.2008 | The plight of branded apps and the future of social marketing | [Editor’s note: So it turns out branded apps are a bust — even if you’re Nike or Coca-Cola. Below, Keith Rabois, vice president of strategy and business development at app maker Slide, explains why and gives big-name advertisers some much-n... |
| 17.11.2008 | Jinni Helps You Pick The Perfect Flick | Movies are easier to access than ever, but many of us still struggle with the age old question, “What to watch?” The days of milling around Blockbuster may be gone for many people, but most cable boxes and online movie stores offer little i... |
| 11.11.2008 | Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn?) employee stock sale begins | Christmas may come a little early for Facebook employees who own stock in their company. This summer, we learned the social network was planning a unique method of keeping talented employees happy before a surely-distant initial public offe... |
| 29.10.2008 | Roundup: Yahoo developer platform launches, Wal-Mart sells G1, and more | Here’s the latest action:
So many games, so little time — The typical household video game collection boasts 48 titles, but 11 percent of gamers say they own unopened games. That’s according to a new survey by analyst firm the NPD Group.
De... |
| 28.10.2008 | Flixster Launching Meebo Community IM Tonight | We just received word that tonight at 9pm PT Flixster will roll out its integration of Meebo Community IM, which adds instant messaging-like chat functionality to any website.
Out of 19 total launch partners, a couple more will push their i... |
| 13.10.2008 | Meebo: Web-based IM Is Bigger Than You Think | When people gather, conversations are bound to happen. And while people may be gathering and chatting in Web-based IM interfaces like GTalk, Facebook Chat, and MySpace Chat, that user base is relatively insignificant compared to the untold ... |
| 26.08.2008 | College Sophomore Sells His iPhone App To Flixster | Movie focused social network Flixster acquired a popular iPhone application called Movies.app (iTunes link) last week, and has re-released the application this evening. As far as we know, this is the first acquisition of an iPhone app. The ... |
| 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... |
| 02.06.2008 | The Filter Has Launched | The Filter, a personalized content filtering system which had been hanging around in beta status since sometime in 2006 (our coverage) has finally opened its doors to everyone and officially launched. The service was pioneered by musician P... |
| 02.05.2008 | Watercooler: Yet another social network app company that’s making money | Nobody really knows how much social networks applications are worth, which leads some people to think that they’re not worth much of anything. But try telling that to the companies that are building businesses through applications, and they... |
| 04.02.2008 | IAC's Diller Summons Flixster To New York Just To Kill The Deal | The much anticipated IAC/Flixster acquisition isn’t going to happen, we’ve heard. The two parties got very close to a deal. Then, says a source, IAC summoned Flixster to a meeting in New York where they were told it wasn’t going to happen.
... |
| 12.01.2008 | IAC "Very Close" To Acquiring Flixster | In late October we reported on well placed rumors that IAC was in talks to acquire movie-centered social network Flixster. Those discussions reportedly stalled, likely over IAC’s preferred deal structure (partial buyout with an option for t... |
| 01.11.2007 | Confirmed: MySpace joins Google’s OpenSocial movement | updated
MySpace, the large social networking company, has joined the anti-Facebook coalition led by Google, we’ve confirmed.
Meanwhile, SixApart, the blogging software company, has confirmed with VentureBeat that it is joining the ever-grow... |
| 28.10.2007 | Flixster For Sale; IAC Interested | Fast growing movie-centered social network Flixster has been making the rounds with potential buyers, we’ve heard from multiple sources. And IAC may have submitted a letter of intent in the last week or so.
The San Francisco based company h... |
| 27.07.2007 | Trusted Opinion provides friends’ recommendations — but watch for spam | If you’re skeptical of Amazon’s customer reviews and find that Netflix’s recommendations are never quite right, you might check out Trusted Opinion.
The Palo-Alto, Calif, company believes that your friends’ recommendations on things such as... |
| 29.03.2007 | Movers and shakers in the valley: Agassi, Chang, Gur and Siegel | Here are the latest moves in the Silicon Valley venture/executive world:
Shai Agassi, heir apparent at SAP, steps down — The 38-year-old Agassi, the Silicon Valley-based president of Software company SAP, was being groomed for the chief exe... |
| 20.03.2007 | Flixster Hits 10 million Registered Users | You don’t see this every day. San Francisco based Flixster’s growth, which shot up late last year, shows no signs of slowing anytime soon.
Joe Greenstein, Flixster’s CEO, told me by email that they now have ten million registered users and ... |
| 07.02.2007 | Flixster: Analysis Of A Movie Social Network On The Rise | Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus
Last week there was a post on TechCrunch entitled Flixster is
growing like weed, which described how a trendy new startup called Flixster has
seen phenomenal growth over the last few mon... |
| 01.02.2007 | Flixster, the social network for movie reviews, reportedly raises VC round | Flixster is a San Francisco Web site that lets you share movie ratings and reviews with friends.
It has reportedly raised a round of financing of $2 million or so from Silicon Valley’s Lightspeed Venture Partners, though we haven’t confirme... |
| 31.01.2007 | Flixster Closes Very Competitive Financing Round | Flixster, a San Francisco based social network where users rate and discuss movies, closed a round of financing today with LightSpeed Ventures. This was a small round of financing – $2 million or possibly less, but there was apparently heav... |
