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| Dec 18, 2012 | Funding Daily: Singapore Sling | 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!
Asia dominated the world stage of tech funding ne... |
| Dec 18, 2012 | Funding Daily: Singapore Sling | Asia dominated the world stage of tech funding news today. A Singapore-based firm that focuses its investments on Southeast Asian companies revealed the first three members of its portfolio, a health and wellness startup raised money to ent... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | Funding Daily: Hakuna Matata | 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!
I am going to see The Lion King tonight, and in m... |
| Nov 6, 2012 | Russian Search Giant Yandex Rolls Into Europe, U.S. With Digital Mapping Expansion; Richer Geo-Location Services In Pipeline | Hot on the heels of launching its own Internet browser and an Android app store to build out its business and keep Google at bay in its home territory, Russian search engine Yandex has quietly extended the reach of its digital mapping servi... |
| Oct 23, 2012 | Funding Daily: Go Giants! | 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 San Francisco Giants won the pennant last nig... |
| Oct 23, 2012 | Onetwotrip takes off into Russian startup space | 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!
Russian travel site Onetwotrip is stowing away an... |
| Sep 23, 2012 | Rich, smart, and — apparently — sexy: Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh is GQ Russia’s man of the 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!
Serial entrepreneur. Two successful exits. A degr... |
| Sep 23, 2012 | Rich, smart, and — apparently — sexy: Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh is GQ Russia’s man of the year | Serial entrepreneur. Two successful exits. A degree in applied mathematics. Chief executive of the Russia’s top search engine. Leader of an $8 billion company with more than double Google’s share of searches. And … dead sexy.
Well, at least... |
| Sep 3, 2012 | Rocket Internet’s ‘Blitzkrieg’: JP Morgan Invests In Russian Fashion Site Lamoda; $40-80M Reported | Less than a month after JP Morgan put investments into two Rocket Internet -backed fashion sites modelled on Zappos — an undisclosed investment in Zalando and $45 million in Brazil’s Dafiti, the bank is taking an equity stake in a third Roc... |
| Jul 20, 2012 | Kayak Is Headed To Russia | Kayak is expanding into Russia, it seems. Thanks to handy news source LinkedIn (yes, really), one Mr. Andrew Verbitsky changed his profile to read “Managing Director Russia & CIS at KAYAK,” and has apparently held that position since Ma... |
| Jul 19, 2012 | Travel deals site Kayak entering Russia just prior to IPO? | [ updated July 20 with a confirmation from a competitor – see bottom for more details ]
Ahh, LinkedIn we love you.
People can never seem to wait with their profile updates until the public announcement is out. At least, that seems to be the... |
| Jul 19, 2012 | Travel deals site Kayak entering Russia just prior to IPO? | 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!
[ updated July 20 with a confirmation from a comp... |
| May 16, 2012 | Funding daily: go shopping for vintage clothes and Russian furniture | We’ve got a lot of stories this Wednesday for you. Click each link below to learn more about the day’s funding news.
If you’re hankering for more funding news throughout the day, you can subscribe to our Deals Channel RSS feed by either cli... |
| May 16, 2012 | Funding daily: go shopping for vintage clothes and Russian furniture | 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!
We’ve got a lot of stories this Wednesday for you... |
| May 14, 2012 | The Top 10 Russian internet entrepreneurs you need to know about | 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!
Russia is now the largest internet market in Euro... |
| May 14, 2012 | The Top 10 Russian internet entrepreneurs you need to know about | Russia is now the largest internet market in Europe, with more than 55 million online users. Russian internet market leaders, Yandex and London-listed Mail.ru Group, both reported a year-over-year revenue growth of 50 percent for the first ... |
| Apr 26, 2012 | Yandex Q1 Earnings: Revenues Up 51% To $200.3M, Net Income Up 53% To $43M | Yandex, Russia’s biggest search company, has posted Q1 earnings, with revenues up 51% to $200.3 million, and net income up 53% to $43 million.
The results beat analyst expectations: on average analysts expected revenues of $194.64 million, ... |
| Apr 2, 2012 | Funding daily: kid friendly games, Facebook credits, and crowd investing | 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... |
| Apr 2, 2012 | Funding daily: kid friendly games, Facebook credits, and crowd investing | 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 new “Fundi... |
| Feb 24, 2012 | Evertale, A Social Network For The Less Proactive, Gets Seed Funding From Mangrove | If you like the idea of charting your life in a diary, and possibly sharing that detail with others, but lack the motivation to do all that logging yourself, then this might just be the social network for you.
Evertale, a service that autom... |
| Feb 15, 2012 | After raising $100 million, Russia’s Amazon (OZON) acquires Russia’s Zappos (Sapato) | OZON, often dubbed the ‘Amazon of Russia’, has acquired 100% of Sapato.ru, often dubbed the ‘Zappos of Russia’. I hope I don’t really need to remind you that Amazon acquired Zappos back in 2009.
The acquisition of the online shoe and access... |
| Aug 1, 2011 | Steve Burrill is raising a $500 million fund. Is it for his Minnesota project? | Burrill has relationships with funds set up by foreign governments. Minnesota green chemistry firm Segetis, for example, got an investment from the Malaysian Life Sciences Fund, co-managed by Burrill & Company.
More than two years ago w... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Mangrove Capital Invests $4M in Global Online Apparel | Mangrove Capital Partners, a Luxembourg-based venture capital firm which has backed Skype and Nimbuzz, has invested $4 million for a minority stake in Global Online Apparel, a holding company of Indian shoe e-tailer BeStylish.com, as well a... |
| Apr 28, 2011 | Russian Search Giant Yandex Seeks To Raise Up To $1 Billion In IPO | Yandex, one of the leading Internet companies in Russia, this morning announced that it has filed a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed initial public offering, as expected. The number of shares to be offered and the price ra... |
| Apr 26, 2011 | Google Chairman Takes An Interest In Backing Russian Startups | TomorrowVentures, the investment firm founded by Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt has partnered with Digital October, a Moscow, Russia-based tech startup incubator.
According to local reports (via Quintura blog), Schmidt’s invest... |
| Mar 30, 2011 | DST Sets Up New Fund, Joins Huge Rounds For Spotify And China's 360buy: Reports | According to Russian business newspaper Vedomosti (via Quintura), star investor Digital Sky Technologies has set up a new fund dubbed DST Global – 2. The fund has already made investments in Groupon (January 2011) and is close to investing ... |
| Mar 30, 2011 | Yuri Milner creates new fund, bets on Spotify | The fund, DST Global 2, has already invested in Groupon and is also banking on China's 360Buy
Looks like Yuri Milner wondered recently what would be better than DST Global. DST Global 2! The investment firm known for making big, risky bets ... |
| Feb 3, 2011 | Exclusive: Social Music Startup Rdio Raises $17.5 Million, Adds Rob Cavallo To Board | Rdio, the social music startup founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, isn’t exactly waiting around for Spotify to make its way to the United States (or Google Music for that matter).
TechCrunch has learned that the comp... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | Euro Angels invest in Russian travel shopping club | European business angel investors Javier Pérez-Tenessa (founder of online travel agency eDreams), Michael van Swaaij (former CEO of Skype) and other angels have invested in travel shopping club HipClub.ru, reports Russian blog Quintura.
Lik... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Private equity firm General Atlantic takes $200M stake in security software vendor Kaspersky Lab | Private equity firm General Atlantic has purchased a 20 percent stake in Kaspersky Lab for $200 million. The deal shows that security technology companies are hot and it shows how much value Kaspersky has created in its 13 years as an antiv... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Private equity firm General Atlantic takes $200M stake in security software vendor Kaspersky Lab | 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!
Private equity firm General Atlantic has purchase... |
| Dec 29, 2010 | In Russia, Linux-based GLONASS GPS "iPhone" Follows You | http://www1.ntv.ru/swf/vps1.swf?xmllink=http://www.ntv.ru/vi215229/
Oh, those Russians. Sistema, a mobile operator over in Putin Country, just released the first GLONASS/GPS phone in the country. GLONASS is Russia’s GPS solution that doesn’... |
| Oct 25, 2010 | Facebook, Groupon And Zynga Investor Mail.ru (aka, DST) Shoots For $5.7B Valuation In IPO | Mail.ru Group, formerly known as Digital Sky Technologies and notable investor in Internet sensations Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, among others, has filed for a $876 million IPO on the London Stock Exchange that would value the investment f... |
| Aug 24, 2010 | DST buys Russian social network Odnoklassniki.ru | The Internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies (DST) has acquired Odnoklassniki.ru, having previously owned an 80 percent interest in the Russian social network.
The deal, reported to be valued between $14m and $28m, according to lo... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | Tiger Global acquires 50% of Russian online mall Wikimart for $5m | Private equity firm Tiger Global Management has acquired a 50% stake in Russian online mall Wikimart, reports local newspaper Vedomosti (via blog Quintura). The deal actually took place in May, according to the report but only came to light... |
| Jul 26, 2010 | Tiger Global invests in Russian travel portal Anywayanyday | Tiger Global Management, a New York private equity firm, has apparently invested approximately $10 million for a 40% stake of Russian online travel portal, Anywayanyday. This is according to an article in Russian newspaper, Vesomoti, and th... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | Mangrove backs Russian beauty coupon site Beaucoup.ru | VC firm Mangrove Capital Partners has invested in Beaucoup.ru, a group purchasing site for all things health and beauty. The word comes from Yakov on the Quintura blog (Mangrove has also backed Quintura).
According to Yakov, the deal size i... |
| May 31, 2010 | US Fund To Invest $250 Million In Skolkovo, The "Russian Silicon Valley" | Siguler Guff & Company, a US-based private equity firm with over $8.5 billion of assets under management, is investing $250 million in a high-tech hub outside Moscow that is often referred to as Russia’s ‘answer to Silicon Valley’, acco... |
| Apr 28, 2010 | AOL Sells ICQ for $187.5 Million | Once upon a time, ICQ was synonymous with instant messaging. While ICQ doesn’t have this kind of clout anymore, it is still very popular in Russia and other countries that use the Cyrillic alphabet. AOL bought ICQ in 1998 for $287 million, ... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | Social games company Nival Network raises $7m from DST, 1C and Sergey Orlovskiy | [Russia] The Moscow-based social games company Nival Network, part of the Nival Group, has raised $7 million in new funding from DST, 1C Company and Nival Group founder & CEO Sergey Orlovskiy, according to a report (russian) in the Vedo... |
| Feb 8, 2010 | Central European asset roll-up as Naspers looks to buy Forticom | It looks like some major consolidation is about to go down in the Central European Internet market, and in particular Poland.
According to local newspaper reports, the largest Internet group in the region, Naspers/MIH Group, is conducting d... |
| Feb 1, 2010 | Russia's leading search engine Yandex sees decline in USD revenue | [Russia] Yandex, the leading search engine and contextual advertising company in Russia, has reported a decline in USD revenue for the first time in the company’s history. Although it’s not quite as it seems.
In 2009 revenue was actually up... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Stealth social game developer Drimmi raises funding from Mangrove, ABRT | [Russia] Currently still in stealth mode, Moscow-based Drimmi aims to become the number one social game developer and publisher in the Russian Federation. And Mangrove Capital Partners and ABRT Venture Fund are betting money on them succeed... |
| Jan 18, 2010 | Russian online shopping club KupiVIP.ru scores $20 million in funding | Private online shopping clubs are springing up like mushrooms all around the world in light of the successes companies like Vente Privée has been seeing, and venture capital firms are increasingly starting to invest in companies who are bri... |
| Dec 17, 2009 | Russian Investment Group DST Ups Its Facebook Stake To 5%+, Wants More | Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian investment group founded by Yuri Milner and Gregory Finger, has increased its stake in social networking leader Facebook to more than 5% of the American company, Russia’s leading business newspaper Komm... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Co-founder of Mangrove Capital buys 75% stake in Renault F1 Team, saves it | YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley is not the only familiar name in tech with a financial interest in Formula One.
Yakov over at Quintura lets us know that Genii Capital, a Luxembourg-based investment firm run by Eric Lux (CEO) and Gerard Lopez... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | Confirmed: Google To Power Search, Ads On Mail.ru Starting January 2010 | Earlier this month, we reported that Google would be replacing Russian search leader Yandex as the default search engine and ad server on Mail.ru, the most popular online destination in the country with more than 50 million unique monthly u... |
| Dec 13, 2009 | Google, DST Make Play For AOL's ICQ | A number of companies are pursuing AOL’s ICQ instant messaging product, we’re hearing. Russian press is saying DST (a recent Facebook investor) is talking about buying the service. Our sources say they’re a relatively new bidder to the proc... |
| Dec 4, 2009 | Google to replace Yandex as default search engine on Mail.ru in 2010 | It’s all over the news in Russia this morning: Mail.ru, the leading Internet portal in the country, will reportedly be replacing Russian search king Yandex as its default search provider and hand over the keys to Google again.
While nothing... |
| Dec 1, 2009 | Facebook Investor DST Expands Mail.ru With Astrum Online Merger | Digital Sky Technologies (aka DST), the Russian Internet holding company that holds stakes in several major Russian-language social networking and communication players and notably also recently invested in Facebook, is melting two of its l... |
| Nov 26, 2009 | Mystery Buyer Coughs Up $1.5 Million For Russia.com | The domain name russia.com has been purchased by an undisclosed buyer for $1.5 million through marketplace Sedo, reports Yakov Sadchikov over on the Quintura blog.
Currently an online guide for travelers who would like to visit the country,... |
| Nov 24, 2009 | Russian games house raises $5 million for social strategy game | [Russia] Russian online game developer Nival Network has closed a $5 million round from an undisclosed investor but will use the funds to develop Prime World, its online strategy game with social networking features aimed at the Russia and ... |
| Nov 24, 2009 | Russian Social Strategy Game Raises $5 Million | We all know social games are hot right now, and that’s as true in Russia – a large and growing market – as anywhere else. Now Russian online game developer Nival Network has closed a $5 million round from an undisclosed investor but will us... |
| Nov 21, 2009 | Naspers Could Be The Next Owner Of ICQ (And Why That Would Make Sense) | Last week, it was reported that AOL – amid restructuring efforts in the lead-up to the imminent Time Warner spin-off and IPO – was putting its instant messaging service unit ICQ on the block and had hired bankers Allen & Co. and Morgan ... |
| Oct 18, 2009 | Blog Search Engine Technorati Raised Additional $2M | San Francisco-based Technorati, the famous blog search engine, raised additional $2m in venture capital funding.
According to reports, existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mobius Venture Capital participated in the round along with o... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | TA Associates Shells Out $200 Million For Minority Stake In AVG Technologies | Private equity firm TA Associates has acquired a 25 percent stake in security software company AVG Technologies for $200 million. According to reports, the ownership was purchased from AVG’s shareholders and investors, including Intel Capit... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Russia's Rambler feels the crunch as ad revenues fall | It looks like even Russia isn’t immune to the downturn. Rambler Media, the Russian company that runs the massive Rambler portal has reported a large drop in display and contextual advertising revenues in six months ended June 30 which it pu... |
| May 26, 2009 | Zuckerberg and Milner, on Facebook’s latest funding — and social networking revenue | Why did Facebook just decide to raise money from Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies — aside from generally wanting a “cushion” of $200 million before it goes public? As Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and DST chief ex... |
| May 25, 2009 | Russian Investment Firm Poking Facebook For Board Seat | When the WSJ broke the story about Russian tech investment group Digital Sky Technologies looking to buy a stake in Facebook for $200 million – a deal that would value the private company at $10 billion in preferred stock – there was still ... |
| Mar 26, 2009 | Russia's KupiVIP raises another $8m as Europe pounces on buyers clubs | Buyers clubs along the lines of Vente Privee (which started in France) and Brand For Friends in Germany are spreading like wildfire across Europe and no wonder. They are business models tailor-made for the recession, offering big discounts ... |
| Jan 13, 2009 | Comment on the Russian President's new video blog. Just don't mention gas… | Perhaps taking a cue from the Downing Street YouTube Channel, where punters are leaving questions for the UK Prime Minister, Russia’s President has opened a video dialogue with citzens on his blog, reports Russian startup Quintura. The vide... |
| Jan 8, 2009 | Evernote's $4.5 Million New Year's Eve Round | Evernote, which is up for a Crunchie award, rang in the New Year with an extra $4.5 million of cash from Russian investment firm Troika Dialog. A mid-December report had put the investment at $5 million, but the company did not actually clo... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | Visual search engine Superfish nets $5.3M | Superfish, a stealthy startup that will eventually let users search by sight, reeled in $5.3 million in second-round financing. The Palo Alto, Calif. company has been in research mode for a couple of years and plans to launch the service in... |
| Dec 30, 2008 | Roundup: Cisco’s digital stereo, Twitter gets authority search, and more | Cisco offers digital stereo — The shift to digital entertainment is a big change from the company’s roots in routers and Internet pipes.
The Internet does another round of arguing about Twitter — Loic Le Meur, founder of video site Seesmic,... |
| Dec 23, 2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| Dec 19, 2008 | Top 10 Alternative Search Engines of 2008 | Editor’s Note: This list was contributed by Charles Knight, editor of AltSearchEngines, a former RWW network blog.
In terms of user experience, the gap between the major search engines and their alternatives continues to widen — a lot. Goog... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Cloudlet Plugin Brings Tag-Based Search To Google; Yahoo | Simple and useful, exactly the way I like ’em: Cloudlet effectively brings tag-based search to Google and Yahoo in the form of an add-on for the Firefox browser (except for the latest 3.1 beta). That’s about all it does, and it does it well... |
| Nov 23, 2008 | Russian investment firm ONEXIM to acquire Forbes? | Update: Elevation’s Roger McNamee has just responded, saying the reports are untrue: “Forbes absolutely denies this rumor, and has no knowledge of the source. Forbes Russia is also not for sale to the ONEXIM group.”
Several news reports in ... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | GazProm Media Completes $15 Million Acquisition RuTube, The YouTube Of Russia | Russia’s media conglomerate, Gazprom Media, is now the proud owner of video-sharing site RuTube. This deal has been in the works since at least June, 2007 and is believed to be in the $15 million range.
RuTube is the YouTube of Russia. Or, ... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | Look Out Google Site Search, Lijit Says It’s Right On Your Heels | Innovative search startup Lijit has done study of search widgets on pages around the web and says its widget is very close to becoming as popular as Google’s own “site search”. We think Lijit is quite interesting and we’re not surprised to ... |
| Sep 24, 2008 | Roundup: Economic rescue package debated, Buffett invests $5 billion in Goldman, third Google founder surfaces | Congress objects to $700 billion bailout with no help for homeowners: Election-year politics are seaping into the White House’s bailout plan as Congress clashes with the administration over its desire to provide stronger relief for homeowne... |
| Sep 23, 2008 | $2 Billion Valuation Reported for Russian Blog and Email Portal | Fifteen percent ownership of Russian email, news and blog portal Mail.ru was purchased this summer for $300 million, according to new reports today from Russian journalists citing sources close to the deal. That puts the full value of the c... |
| Sep 5, 2008 | Quintura scores another round of funding for visual search engine | Visual search startup Quintura has raised a new round of funding to continue building out its engine, which is used on several media sites, including Maxim, the Russian version of Cosmo and ReadWriteWeb. As with its last round of funding, Q... |
| Aug 6, 2008 | Roundup: Brocade protects Sonsini after payment, Russian ads boom, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Silicon Valley high-powered law firm Wilson Sonsini pays $9.5M to brocade to protect itself from civil claims, and Brocade leaves the Wilson Sonsini out of law suit — In a striking development in the valley’s ongoi... |
| Jul 18, 2008 | Google Buys Russian Contextual Ads Service for $140m | BREAKING NOW: Google is buying Russian contextual advertising company ZAO Begun for $140 million from UK-registered Rambler Media (many Russian firms now base themselves in the UK). Rambler owns 50.1 percent of Begun, so to secure the deal ... |
| Jun 30, 2008 | Yahoo Gets Dumped By Maxim | The indignity of it all. On top of everything else that Yahoo is dealing with right now (testy shareholders, departing executives, reorganized employees), it also just got dumped by Maxim.
The magazine’s site, Maxim.com, now uses Quintura t... |
| Jun 6, 2008 | Google Spending $250k/month On Outdoor Ads In Russia | Will bus stop and subway advertising to the tune of an estimated $250,000 per month help Google gain search market share against Russia’s home grown leader Yandex? The company is launching “”Moscow 2.0,” which includes over 5,000 outdoor ad... |
| May 20, 2008 | The Biggest Tech IPO of 2008 Is Coming Out of Russia: Search Engine Yandex to Raise Up To $2 Billion | The Google of Russia is Yandex, and it is preparing for an IPO on Nasdaq in the fall with the hopes of raising $1.5 billion to $2 billion, reports Reuters. That would give the company a $5 billion valuation. Yandex was founded 15 years ago ... |
| Mar 21, 2008 | SpinVox raises whopping $100M+ for voicemail to text conversion | SpinVox, a London company that converts your voicemail into text, has raised more than $100 million to expand quickly by signing deals with large telecom carriers around the world — an apparent land-grab.
The amount of cash is significant, ... |
| Mar 13, 2008 | The Best Tools for Visualization | Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communi... |
| Mar 3, 2008 | Search gets personal | Search gets personal
Quintura, a visual-based search engine for browsing and discovery-type search, has launched its search engine for individual Web sites and blogs.
The company says Quintura for site search delivers the same navigation pr... |
| Feb 28, 2008 | Quintura Releases Site-Specific Search Cloud Widget | Quintura, a site where you can search the internet with the assistance of a keyword cloud, is releasing a widget that brings the same search cloud to individual websites.
Site owners can install the widget (shown below) and the search resul... |
| Feb 24, 2008 | Thanks Sponsors; Packages Available March-April | Thank you to our sponsors, for supporting ReadWriteWeb’s mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Technology trends and products. We currently have a couple of sponsor slots available for March-April on ReadWriteWeb, so if you would like... |
| Feb 21, 2008 | Zd`rravstvuite: Google May Be Buying Ukrainian Portal Bigmir)net For $100 Million | Another day, another Google acquisition rumor, and this one comes from within the borders of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. According to local press reports, Google may have acquired Ukrainian Portal Bigmir)net for $100 mil... |
| Feb 21, 2008 | EU startups getting name-checked | A bunch of European startups are getting name-checked right now, whether it be selected for demo fights or ‘programmes’ – so I though it worth just listing these so we can all check them out.
First off the Plugg Start-Ups Rally 2008 has eva... |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Roundup: Google to float cellphone towers in air? Google to buy Ukraine portal? | Here’s the latest action:
1. Google sending balloons up to act as cellphone towers?
2. Google to sell ads on third-party sites’ Web videos
3. Google acquiring Ukranian portal for $100M?
4. Google gives patients control of online medical rec... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | Sun continues open source rampage, buys PC virtualization company Innotek | Sun Microsystems has acquired Innotek, a Stuttgart, Germany provider of open source desktop virtualization software called VirtualBox, for an undisclosed amount.
VirtualBox is part of a hot group of companies allowing for much more efficien... |
| Feb 6, 2008 | FlowPlay raises $3.7M for avatar game for teenagers | FlowPlay, a Seattle company developing a virtual world for teenagers and young adults around casual gaming, has raised $3.7 million in a first round of funding led by Intel Capital and Ambient Sound Investments.
John Cook, of Seattle PI has... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Thanks Sponsors & Readers | We interrupt this broadcast to thank our sponsors for supporting ReadWriteWeb. We have a great line-up of sponsors, all supporting RWW’s mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Technology trends and products.
Of course we’re also thankf... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | Find Something That Is "X" And Has "Y" With Circos | Keyword search gets you pretty far when looking for pure information, but doesn’t help much on more qualitative searches like trying to find the hippest restaurant in SOHO. Searches like the latter rely on the opinions of people, not webmas... |
| Jan 28, 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. ... |
| Jan 25, 2008 | Quintura Launches Site Search – Private Beta Offer for RWW Readers | Russian search engine Quintura (one of our sponsors) has released a private beta of a custom search service for blogs or websites. It’s similar to the Eurekster swicki we use on ReadWriteWeb. The defining feature of Quintura’s service is a ... |
| Jan 24, 2008 | Roundup: FM hires bank, Tesla, Akamai’s growth and more | 1. Tesla to begin production of the Roadster on March 17
2. Blog ad network FM turns down $100M offer?
3. CDN Akamai sees record traffic from social networks
4. Newspaper traffic up; old media on the rise?
5. Creating popular social network... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | Russia’s Finam invests $30M into fast-growing social network Badoo | The Russian financial group Finam has invested about $30 million for a 10 percent stake int London-based social network Badoo to help it grow in Russia.
The investment come at a time when social networks are growing quickly in Russia. While... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | UK's Badoo pulls $30m for Russian launch, ahead of a home push | Russian investor Finam has put $30m into UK-based social network Badoo for a 10% stake. The money is to build the service in Russia, where social networking market has reached around 10 million users in January.
Badoo’s social networking si... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | Russians Invest $30 Million in Social Networking Site Badoo | International social networking site Badoo, just got a $300 million valuation from new Russian investors. TechCrunch UK has the details:
Russian investor Finam has put $30m into UK-based social network Badoo for a 10% stake. The money is to... |
| Oct 29, 2007 | In brief | • Trabber (a contraction of travel + grabber, apparently) is a new search engine that searches across the main online flight providers, compares all the flight offers and shows the final prices of the flights. It’s pitching itself at travel... |
| Sep 20, 2007 | IT roundup: OnForce, Freelance, PlanHQ and Salesforce | Earlier this week, Forrester released two reports about social software, and how it is getting adopted within companies
Blogs, wikis, social networks, sharing — it’s all giving IT departments a major migraine.
Here’s a summary of the findin... |
| Jun 18, 2007 | Quintura Gets Series A From Mangrove Capital Partners | Visual-based search engine Quintura has taken Series A funding of “several million dollars” from Mangrove Capital Partners, an original seed investor in the company.
The capital will be used to scale the Quintura affiliate model for site se... |