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| Dec 5, 2024 | UK legaltech Lawhive secures $40M Series A for US market entry | UK-based legaltech startup Lawhive has raised $40 million in Series A funding to accelerate its US expansion, using AI to make legal services more accessible and affordable.
Founded in 2019 by co-founders Pierre Proner (CEO), Jaime Van Oers... |
| Dec 5, 2024 | Lawhive Raises $40M in Series A Funding | Lawhive, a London, UK-based legaltech startup, raised $40M in Series A funding.
The round was led by GV (Google Ventures) and TQ Ventures, with participation from Balderton Capital, Jigsaw, Episode 1 and Premier League footballers Harry Mag... |
| Dec 14, 2012 | Judge nixes Orthofix, DoJ deal for 2nd time | A federal judge spiked a settlement deal between Orthofix (NSDQ:OFIX) and the U.S. Justice Dept. for the 2nd, time, saying the agreement isn’t in the public’s best interest.
Judge William Young of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts 1... |
| Oct 30, 2012 | Rainmaker Group Raises $33.8M For Data Services That Optimizes Profits By Forecasting Supply And Demand | The Rainmaker Group, a company founded in 1998, has accepted its first investment — $33.8 million from Norwest Venture Partners that the Atlanta-based company will use to extend its profit and price optimization technology to different mark... |
| Oct 23, 2012 | InfoArmy wants YOU to create business intelligence reports | 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!
The army tells recruits to “be all that you can b... |
| Oct 23, 2012 | InfoArmy wants YOU to create business intelligence reports | The army tells recruits to “be all that you can be.” While in the military context, this statement relates to physical prowess and leadership skills, InfoArmy applies the same principal to business intelligence.
InfoArmy is a marketplace wh... |
| Sep 30, 2012 | Data Markets: The Emerging Data Economy | Editor’s note: Gil Elbaz is an entrepreneur and pioneer of natural language technology. In 1998, he co-founded Applied Semantics, which developed contextual advertising products, including ASI’s AdSense. In 2003, Google acquired ASI, and af... |
| Sep 20, 2011 | Nimble aims to be WordPress of social SaaS | reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating
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| Apr 26, 2011 | Apple Wins a Surprising iMac & TV Display Testing System Patent + Others for Final Cut Pro, the Apple Store & More
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Apple has been granted a very interesting patent relating to an LCD quality Testing System devised by one of their Senior Scientists Gabriel Marcu. The testing system was devised to ramp of the qua... |
| May 13, 2010 | The lazy CEO’s 10-step guide to crowdsourcing every business task | Lukas Biewald (pictured left) is cofounder and chief executive of CrowdFlower, a startup that helps businesses crowdsource small tasks. Vaughn Hester (pictured below) is an account manager/analyst at CrowdFlower.
Whether you are starting a ... |
| Apr 21, 2010 | Salesforce.com to acquire hard-sell business directory Jigsaw for $142M | Salesforce.com, whose no-download business software is used by companies to organize their operations, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Jigsaw, a “data as a service” company that offers access to its crowdsou... |
| Apr 21, 2010 | Salesforce.com to acquire hard-sell business directory Jigsaw for $142M | 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!
Salesforce.com, whose no-download business softwa... |
| Apr 21, 2010 | Salesforce Buys Business Directory Jigsaw For $142 Million In Cash Plus Earn-Out | Salesforce.com has just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Jigsaw, which provides crowd-sourced data services in the cloud, for approximately $142 million in cash, plus a performance-based earn out of up to... |
| Feb 17, 2010 | Is Humanism the Future of Sales and Conversion? | There’s a reason why vanity URLs, personalized profile pages and recommendation systems are so popular. To a customer or site visitor, there’s nothing more interesting than themselves. As the CEO of web tracking and sales conversion site Ge... |
| Feb 6, 2010 | Does Monster's Acquisition Of Yahoo! HotJobs Matter If The Internet Is The Job Board? | (Editor’s note: Centralized Web job boards are in decline. Dan Finnigan, CEO of Jobvite, explains why in this guest post. Previously, he was Senior VP at Yahoo and GM of HotJobs, and before that a Director on CareerBuilder’s Board as CEO of... |
| Dec 27, 2009 | Privacy Theater: Why Social Networks Only Pretend To Protect You | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Rohit Khare, the co-founder of Angstro. Building his latest project, social address book Knx.to, gives him a deep familiarity with the privacy policies of all the major social networks.... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | Top 10 gifts for entrepreneurs | 10 productivity tools to stuff the stocking of your special Type-A overachiever What do you get the person who wants it all, and has no time for fun? Entrepreneurs are by nature hard to please, but these productivity tools just might just d... |
| Oct 14, 2009 | WhitePages Now Lets You Control Your Own Listings | When was the last time you actually looked in the phone book to find someone’s number? For anyone under 40, the Web has already replaced the phone book with people search. But the listings are not always complete or up to date. One of the l... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | Jigsaw finds profitability by delivering sales contact data as a service | 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!
Jigsaw, a company whose 900,000 users have built ... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | Jigsaw finds profitability by delivering sales contact data as a service | Jigsaw, a company whose 900,000 users have built a database of 14 million business contacts, says it has found a winning business model — by offering access to and services around that database, the company claims to have hit profitability ... |
| Jul 10, 2009 | What’s next: Facial recognition from mobile phones? | When social networks spread like wildfire through college campuses, it arguably wasn’t messaging friends, announcing events, or trading goods that drove the most use. It was browsing and (mostly) innocuous stalking. Humans are intensely soc... |
| May 4, 2009 | Startup 101: Naming your startup | [Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of practical advice for entrepreneurs — things you’re probably aware of but are likely to forget in the rush of launching a business.] Today whether you are opening up a new retail store in San ... |
| Apr 28, 2009 | Jigsaw launches Data Fusion to clean up sales contact lists | Jigsaw today is launching its cloud-based Data Fusion software for acquiring and managing sales prospect records so that companies can use them to reel in clients more easily.
The San Mateo, Calif.-based Jigsaw said that Data Fusion can aut... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | TheOfficialBoard Launches With Wiki Org Charts For 20,000 Companies | We’re all getting used to the idea that our personal information information is now public to the extent that we share it on social networks and elsewhere on the Web. Corporate data about people’s roles and functions within different organi... |
| Sep 29, 2008 | Gritty Entrepreneurs: Jigsaw, a Profitable Web 2.0 Venture | To kick off our new Gritty Entrepreneurs interview series, at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York we sat down with Jim Fowler, the Founder and CEO of Jigsaw, a business information and networking service that we noted in our recent review was a co... |
| Sep 9, 2008 | SkyData Integrates Everything, Puts It On Your Smartphone | At first glance, it seems like SkyData is trying to do too much. This mobile app mashes up data from your email contacts, your social network contacts, your business contacts, as well as business data from CRM applications like Salesforce.c... |
| Jul 22, 2008 | Socialprise - Social media and enterprise | Tracking down leads from a one-stop source
Jigsaw is great for finding contact information of people you don't know. ZoomInfo is great for finding information about companies. LinkedIn is a great source to know who knows whom. Facebook... |
| Jul 15, 2008 | Jigsaw: Alternative or Complement to LinkedIn? | I am a regular user of LinkedIn, using it both for biz dev and recruiting. I am a fan of the service, but still a bit of a skeptic on the business model. I decided to look at alternatives and the one that gave some use was Jigsaw. According... |
| May 16, 2008 | Dirt-digging websites on the rise | Websites to help users find out if friends, family and co-workers have any secrets in the closet are proliferating in the US, WSJ.com reports.
And the material they can uncover goes way beyond the results you can get by tapping a name into ... |
| Apr 9, 2008 | Where to Find Open Data on the Web | Today, a story on Techmeme caught our eye. It was entitled “We Need a Wikipedia for data,” and the article, written by X-Googler Bret Taylor, discussed the difficulty of finding open data sets on the internet, something which could spur inn... |
| Nov 8, 2007 | Salesconx sells your contacts, but gently | Finding potential business clients is easy on the internet. From Jigsaw (our coverage) to ZoomInfo (our coverage), new services provide a wealth of contact information you can use to reach into the bowels of companies, from the CEO of a For... |
| Apr 5, 2007 | The Web 2.0 pyramids: Agloco, eMax and KushCash | Each Internet boom creates its batch of pyramid-like schemes. They cater to the lust for easy returns dominant in euphoric times.
That’s not to say they’re fraudulent. Most of these schemes are plausible on their face, and that’s their allu... |
| Dec 4, 2006 | VentureBeat’s high-end jobs | If your New Year’s resolution will be to make more money, it’s not too late to apply to some of the fresh $100,000+ jobs at the VentureBeat JobBoard.
We’re getting feedback that JobBoard is working better than other boards (see comment). He... |
| Apr 10, 2006 | Jigsaw Raises $12 Million, Still Evil | Jigsaw, a company that I have begged our elected representatives to do something to stop, continues to see skyrocketing growth and managed to convince Austin Ventures to lead a $12 Million series B round of financing. Previous investors El ... |
| Apr 10, 2006 | JBoss sells, Jigsaw raises cash, Mogoo wants to, and BuzzShout cuts through hype | Miscellaneous news of Silicon Valley:
JBoss tough guy Fleury sells out after all — Last week, we wrote about Marc Fleury, the abrasive chief executive of JBoss, the open source application server company turning down a reported $500 million... |
| Mar 23, 2006 | Jigsaw is a Really, Really Bad Idea | Well, just as soon as one company stopped being evil, another one has stepped in to take its place. Jigsaw is a marketplace for contact information, and it is very efficient. It boasts detailed personal contact information for 2.5 million p... |
| Jan 3, 2005 | Topix deepens search in Silicon Valley with LinkSV | More on our earlier note about Topix…
Topix.net, the Palo Alto Web service that provides local news, has launched a new service designed for the Silicon Valley start-up community.
It’s just the latest offering from this intriguing company o... |
| Dec 5, 2004 | Jigsaw: Give us your business cards, earn extra cash | This is a slightly edited version of a story to be carried in tomorrow’s Merc
It sounds like a 1999 dot-com spin: If you’re lucky, you’ll enter a few business cards on the site of San Mateo start-up www.jigsaw.com, and get some cash back.
J... |