| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.05.2018 | Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales says ICOs offer almost nothing of value to the world | Jimmy Wales, the internet entrepreneur who is famous for cofounding the not-for-profit Wikipedia and the for-profit Wikia, has been quite outspoken over the years on the topic of blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
As early as 2014, Wales twee... |
| 16.05.2018 | Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales says ICOs offer almost nothing of value to the world | 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!
Jimmy Wales, the internet entrepreneur who is fam... |
| 31.10.2017 | How Social Media Can Help Teach Good Writing | For all the hype Millennials get, nearly every K-12 student today is part of its successor generation—Gen Z—a group more plugged in and social than ever before. The internet is awash in surveys touting the inseparable connection between kid... |
| 25.01.2016 | Wikia is blurring the line between reader and journalist | It launched Fandom, a pop culture website that will allow its readers to publish their own content
When you think of Wikia, or Wikipedia, the first thing you probably think of is the lack of editorial oversight. Those sites are famously ope... |
| 28.08.2014 | Wikia Lands $15M in Series D |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Wikia, the social universe of fandom, today announces it has secured Series D Funding.
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Wikia, th... |
| 28.08.2014 | Wikia Secures $15M in Series D Funding | Wikia, a San Francisco, CA-based social platform for fans, secured $15m in Series D funding.
The round was led by Digital Garage, with participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Amazo... |
| 27.08.2014 | Wikia's $15M shows the power of fandom — and it's finding even more in Asia | Wikia, a web hosting company of community-based websites for fans of movies, bands, games, and other subjects, has brought on $15 million in fresh funding.
Wikia plans to use the influx of cash to make itself more popular around the world, ... |
| 27.08.2014 | Funding Daily: VCs gave a lot of money to a ‘server-storage mashup’ | Today’s funding deals: Nutanix reels in $140M
Nutanix, a startup with data-center hardware that marries servers and storage, has picked up a hefty supply of new capital to work with. The new $140 million round Nutanix announced comes just s... |
| 27.08.2014 | Funding Daily: VCs gave a lot of money to a ‘server-storage mashup’ | 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!
Today’s funding deals: Nutanix reels in $140M
Nut... |
| 27.08.2014 | User-Generated Content Portal Wikia Raises Another $15M To Crack Into Asia | Wikia, the user-generated publishing site started by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is today announcing a $15 million round of funding to crack into Japan and other Asian markets. As with Wikia’s previous rounds, this Series D comes from a ... |
| 27.08.2014 | Wikia's $15M shows the power of fandom — and it's finding even more in Asia | 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!
Wikia, a web hosting company of community-based w... |
| 04.03.2014 | UK publishing giant TSL snaps up ed-tech startup Wikispaces (exclusive) | 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 publishing giant TSL Education has acquir... |
| 04.03.2014 | UK publishing giant TSL snaps up ed-tech startup Wikispaces (exclusive) | Digital publishing giant TSL Education has acquired scrappy upstart Wikispaces to maintain its hold over educators.
TSL bills itself as the “largest network for teachers in the world.” The UK-based firm claims to provide 60 million educator... |
| 05.06.2013 | Fastly Raises $10M For Content Delivery Network Built For Mobile, Real-Time World | Fastly has raised $10 million in a Series B round for its SSD-powered content delivery network (CDN) used by the likes of Disqus, Twitter and GitHub. The round was led by August Capital.
Fastly, founded by Artur Bergman, the former CTO of W... |
| 01.12.2012 | Wikia Snares $10M Series C |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Leading collaborative media company and home to many of the Web's largest social communities, announced today that it has closed over $10 million in an oversubscribed round of Series C funding led by Institutional Ventu... |
| 01.12.2012 | Touting a ‘post-editorial world,’ Wikia raises cash from Amazon and others | Wikia, which operates a platform that powers more than 200,000 community-powered Web sites, has raised more than $10 million from Amazon.com, Bessemer Ventures Partners and Institutional Venture Partners.
Formed by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales a... |
| 30.11.2012 | Wikia Raises Over $10M in Series C Funding | Wikia, a San Francisco, CA-based collaborative media company which is home to several online large social communities, has closed over $10m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, with participation from ex... |
| 30.11.2012 | With 1B Pageviews Under Its Belt, UGC Giant Wikia Raises $10.8M From IVP, Bessemer & Amazon | User generated content company Wikia is breaking the news of its raise of over $10.8 million in Series C funding today, in a press release soon to be sent out to tech media. The financing was led by Institutional Venture Partners with a fol... |
| 30.11.2012 | Wikia Raises Over $10 Million in Series C Financing Led by Institutional Venture Partners | - |
| 29.11.2012 | Wiki Wiki what? Wikia raises $11M to help people create, collaborate, and be original | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wikia is raising $11 million to support its massive network of pop culture wikis, where people can collaboratively publish video game, ... |
| 29.11.2012 | Wiki Wiki what? Wikia raises $11M to help people create, collaborate, and be original | Wikia is raising $11 million to support its massive network of pop culture wikis, where people can collaboratively publish video game, entertainment, and lifestyle content and form communities around shared interests.
Wikia’s mission is thr... |
| 29.11.2012 | Funding Daily: Barnyard Fun | CloudBeat 2012 wrapped up this evening after two days of intense and inspiring discussion. It seems cloud technology has a positive impact on businesses, as well as farming. During the conference, Kabbage grew, entrepreneurs discussed milki... |
| 04.04.2012 | Wikia Rolls Out Big Redesign To Bring Accessibility, Discovery To 20M Pages Of UGC | You may not be familiar with Wikia, but the collaborative media company has been quietly growing into a giant, recently passing IGN, for example, as the largest network of gaming sites on the planet. Led by both its gaming and entertainment... |
| 12.03.2012 | Wikia, Jimmy Wales’ for-profit company, passes IGN to become the largest network of gaming sites on the web | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
What happens when you combine the Wiki model of open, collaborative editing with just a pinch of old-school oversight? In the case of W... |
| 12.03.2012 | Wikia, Jimmy Wales’ for-profit company, passes IGN to become the largest network of gaming sites on the web | What happens when you combine the Wiki model of open, collaborative editing with just a pinch of old-school oversight? In the case of Wikia, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales for-profit company, you get the largest network of gaming sites in th... |
| 22.02.2011 | The Wiki Strikes Again: German Official Drops “Dr” After Wiki Investigation | The revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia have been dubbed by some to be “Wiki Revolutions” because “just as people can self-organize to contribute to Wikipedia…they can participate in social change and coalesce into revolutionary movements as n... |
| 09.02.2011 | How 3 Companies Are Using NoSQL Database Riak | Today Basho, the sponsor company of the NoSQL database Riak, announced another $7.5 million round of funding from Georgetown Partners and Trifork. We’ve never covered Riak here, so we thought today would be a good day to take a look at how ... |
| 21.06.2010 | Opscode Nabs $11M From Battery Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson for Software Automation | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based automation software developer Opscode said today it has raised $11 million in a Series B financing led by Battery Ventures. This latest round of funding includes... |
| 17.03.2010 | Answers from Wikia lets anyone make Q/A site | New Wikia site lets experts in a field create a niche question and answers community
Wikia, a free Web hosting service for wikis, is launching a new niche site called Answers from Wikia, which gives anyone the tools to launch their own ques... |
| 16.03.2010 | Free wiki hosting company Wikia to let you create your own question and answer sites | Wikia, a site which allows anyone to create their own free wiki page, has announced a new service, Answers from Wikia, that will enable anyone to create their own question and answer sites as well.
Wikia previously relaunched its Wikianswer... |
| 16.03.2010 | Free wiki hosting company Wikia to let you create your own question and answer sites | 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!
Wikia, a site which allows anyone to create their... |
| 07.02.2010 | Wikia Says It's Profitable, Goes On Hiring Spree | Wikia, a for-profit group of user generated wiki sites that was founded by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales in 2004, is now a profitable company. CEO Gil Penchina says the company’s revenues grew 4x in 2009 while they kept costs in check. Late last ... |
| 27.10.2009 | Wikia, site for user-generated topic pages, sees “explosion of growth” | Wikia, a site that its founders liken to a Web version of a library — offering user-generated “books” of content about specific issues — is seeing explosive growth after some recent software changes.
Jimmy Wales, founder of the popular site... |
| 21.10.2009 | HP lets you print old books or Wikia pages as your own custom publications | The democratization of book and magazine publishing is well underway. Every person can pretty much operate their own virtual press, thanks to innovations in web-based self-publishing.
Hewlett-Packard and Wikia are delving further into this ... |
| 13.10.2009 | Wikia expands into lyrics | Wikia, the home of fan-based wikis, has acquired the LyricWiki database of licensed song lyrics. LyricWiki users, in return, are now able to use Wikia’s custom tools including the Question and Answer section.
Part of the deal is that Wikia ... |
| 08.09.2009 | Wikia CEO claims profitability, 3x growth | Gil Penchina, chief exec of wiki community hosting company Wikia, says the firm has quietly achieved the main goal that differentiates it from non-profit Wikipedia: It’s making money. In a press release scheduled to go out later today, Wiki... |
| 08.09.2009 | Wikia Finds A Small Following And Some Profits | Are normal people finally starting to warm to wikis as publishing tools? Wikia, which hosts 50,000 enthusiast sites on the same wiki software as Wikipedia, is claiming profitability of sorts on strong growth. Over the past six months, Wikia... |
| 31.03.2009 | Jimmy Wales Deadpools Wikia Search | It is going to take more than just an open search platform to take on Google. Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced today that he is shutting down Wikia Search, the company’s experiment in creating better search results through crowdsourci... |
| 21.10.2008 | Wikia cuts staff by 10 percent | Wikia, a company that provides wiki and search services and was started by Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales, has let go about 10 percent of its employees. The layoffs came as part of a restructuring that will refocus the San Francisco compan... |
| 20.10.2008 | Confirmed: Wikia Cuts 10% Of Workforce | Update: Wikia has confirmed that about 10 percent of its workers have been laid off, but points out that it is still trying to hire for open positions.
At the beginning of this year, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales officially launched his ... |
| 05.06.2008 | Wikia search engine now lets users add their own results | The Wikia search engine, controversial brainchild of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, this week added groundbreaking social networking-oriented features that give Web users the ability to make adjustments to the search results others see.
... |
| 13.05.2008 | Wetpaint Emerging As A Leading Social Publishing Platform | Seattle based wiki startup Wetpaint has always been ahead of the pack in terms of design and usability. Now, a couple of years after launch, they’re starting to see real usage traction as well.
The product isn’t just about wikis – they also... |
| 03.04.2008 | NextWeb – Wikia is a user-controlled work in progress | NextWeb blog: Gil Penchina, CEO Wikia gave a talk about about “Giving insane levels of control to your customers”. What has he learned? Most people really are good, there are a few bad apples who spam your site, but the passionate outweigh ... |
| 28.02.2008 | Wikia Open Sources Social Networking – Focused Networking Now Open to All | Wikia, the independent commercial wiki site founded by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, is releasing components of its very nice social networking toolset under the GNU General Public License 2.0.
The ability to set up an Open So... |
| 28.02.2008 | Niche social networks welcome: Wikia open-sources social tools | Community wiki-building site Wikia, has announced that it’s allowing its social networking platform to become open source. This will allow anyone to easily create a social community complete with profiles, avatars, friending, etc… within th... |
| 06.01.2008 | Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google? | [Update: See our subsequent post here, which includes a deeper look, after Search Wikia gets slammed by other initial reviews]
Search Wikia, a new search engine site, has launched publicly after two weeks of private testing.
The search engi... |
| 04.01.2008 | Wikia to launch new social search engine, more on Monday | Search Wikia, the highly anticipated search engine by Wikia, the for-profit company of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, will launch publicly on Monday. It is currently in private testing mode, and we’ll write more upon launch.
The huge suc... |
| 23.12.2007 | Wikia Will Search. But When? | We’ve waited more than a year for Wikia to launch their human powered search engine. The project was first announced in December last year by Wikipedia/Wikia founder Jimmy Wales. The promise was to return better results than Google and othe... |
| 16.11.2007 | Get Ready For Wikia Search; First Screen Shots Shown In South Africa | It was eleven months ago that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales first mentioned his vision for a people-powered search engine that would eventually launch under his for profit startup, Wikia.
Not much has happened since then, other than a lot o... |
| 07.11.2007 | Wetpaint Combines Discussion Forums With Wikis | Seattle-based Wetpaint, which launched in June 2006, is a hosted wiki site that focuses on great looking sites and making the user interface as easy as possible. A number of wikis have popped up around popular pop culture stuff, as well as ... |
| 01.10.2007 | Wikinvest launches wiki for investing, raises cash | Wikinvest, a site that allows investors to collaborate by editing pages about stocks and other opportunities, has raised $2.5 million in a first round of capital.
The San Francisco company launched two months ago. The investment was made by... |
| 11.09.2007 | Wikia Gaming Launches With 250,000 Articles | I love Wikia – CEO Gil Penchina, a former eBay executive, says he works harder than anyone in Silicon Valley at building his startup. I routinely point out to him that his startup doesn’t actually do anything – their wiki software is based ... |
| 10.08.2007 | Roundup: Veoh sues, MySpace’s tiny profit, Nirvanix, Wikipedia’s color-coding, more | Here’s the latest action:
Veoh Networks files preemptive suit against Universal Music Group — Veoh, the San Diego video start-up we’ve written about, said it filed the suit to assert its rights as a copyright-compliant company after UMG thr... |
| 31.07.2007 | Roundup: Murdoch closer on WSJ, Scoop Bar, Wikia-Grub, Hitachi and more | Here’s the latest action:
Murdoch appears to have enough Bancroft family support for purchase –The jury is still officially out, but the NYT is saying it looks like Dow Jones and its jewel, the Wall Street Journal, will indeed to go to Murd... |
| 22.06.2007 | Wikia: Lightning Could Strike Twice For Wikipedia Founders | I talked with Wikia CEO Gil
Penchina yesterday about the most recent re-design of the Wikia site. I wanted to know
their goals and what progress the company has made towards that vision. The site’’s
rebuild takes advantage of recent technol... |
| 28.04.2007 | Wikipedia: Special Treatment for Wikia and some other Wikis | There was a lot of controversy recently when Wikipedia announced that all outbound links from the online encyclopedia would include the nofollow tag. The nofollow tag on a link is said to prevent link spamming since some search engines (Goo... |
| 12.04.2007 | The World Of Wikis | WetPaint, a popular hosted Wiki solution, announced this week that they are to provide person-to-person and private messaging between users of their Wiki network. This means that Wetpaint Wiki users can now send single or multi-person priva... |
| 23.03.2007 | Hakia Takes On Google With Semantic Technologies | This
week I spoke to Hakia founder and CEO Dr. Riza C. Berkan and COO Melek
Pulatkonak. Hakia is one of the more promising Alt Search Engines
around, with a focus on natural
language processing methods to try and deliver ‘meaningful’ search... |
| 21.02.2007 | PBWiki Raises $2m | PBwiki closed $2 million in funding this morning from Mohr Davidow Ventures. Founder and CEO David Weekly confirmed that previous investors Ron Conway and Chris Yeh also put in an additional $100k.
PBwiki advertises itself as the easiest wa... |
| 22.01.2007 | The significant response to wiki search idea | Wikia.com, the Silicon Valley company that is building an electronic library on hundreds of thousands of topics, has received a significant interest in its open search engine idea.
Wikia heard from 700 engineers volunteering help to build t... |
| 19.01.2007 | Wiki Vendors Wrangle Over Wiki.com Domain | Lately I’ve received some odd emails from wiki vendors Wikia and MindTouch about the domain wiki.com. A brief history: wiki.com (the domain name) was bought last year by entrepreneur John Gotts for a staggering $2.86
Million. After purchasi... |
| 04.01.2007 | Wikia’s coffers, Browster dies, closed Dash, Techdirt’s $, and RepoMan Redux | Roundup of the latest Silicon Valley action:
Browster, dies — The web 2.0 carnage is beginning to pile up. This week’s casualty is San Francisco’s Browster, the company that wanted to save you time by popping up a little image of a page whe... |
| 03.01.2007 | Wikia is Growing – Is Anyone Paying Attention? | I was going through CEO Gil Penchina’s Wikia presentation slides at the Le Web conference in Paris last month and noticed something that made me realize they could be a huge site some day. According to the company, Wikia is producing 2.5 mi... |
| 26.12.2006 | Wikia to launch social search engine — amid a sea of others | Wikia, the San Mateo start-up founded by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, is working on a search engine that will use the same strategy as Wikipedia’s user-reliant encyclopedia.
The project is secretive, but has a preliminary launch date of the fir... |
| 23.12.2006 | Wikia To Launch Search Engine: Exclusive Screenshot | Update 12/25/06: Jimmy Wales says this isn’t a Wikiasari screen shot. So what is it?
The Times reported earlier today that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is planning to launch a new search engine next year, to be called Wikiasari.
He’s clear... |
| 11.12.2006 | Wikia Announces Free Wiki Hosting | Wikia founder Jimmy Wales believes in “free content for all.” That is why the company launched OpenServing today, a service that is giving away complete Web hosting support to any wiki developer – for free!
OpenServing allows anyone to setu... |
| 06.12.2006 | Amazon takes major stake in Wikia | Wikia, a San Mateo company that allows groups to share information about their interests with wiki technology, has raised a second round of funding — all of it coming from Amazon.com.
It is not clear how much traction Wikia company has gain... |
| 06.12.2006 | Wikia Gets An Undisclosed Amount Of Funding From Amazon | Wikia, a for-profit sister site of Wikipedia, received a second round of funding today, all of it coming from Amazon. No word yet on how much Amazon has forked over.
Just this week, Wikia announced that they would purchase ArmchairGM, an on... |
| 04.12.2006 | Wikia To Buy ArmchairGM for $2 million | Wikia will announce the acquisition of ArmchairGM sometime this week, according to a source close to the transaction. The company was bought for $2 million in cash and Wikia stock.
We briefly mentioned ArmchairGM in a post about a competito... |
| 05.10.2006 | Wikia's Facebook-like College Wikis | Wikia has quietly launched semi-private college/university wikis. And they’ve taken a page out of Facebook’s game plan by requiring users to have an approved university email address in order to edit the wiki. The wiki itself, however, is v... |
| 06.08.2006 | Are Wikis the Best Format For Travel Guides? | Wikia, a for-profit offshoot of Wikipedia, will announce the launch of a free, editable “worldwide guide of places to go and things to do” on Monday, called World Wikia. The content is very light for now, although for an example of how this... |
| 18.06.2006 | Wetpaint Launches: Wikis Evolve | Seattle based Wetpaint has been in private beta since March. On Sunday night they launched to the world, allowing anyone to create a free wiki on any topic.
A good example wiki is this one around the XBOX 360. Like pbwiki, Wikia and JotSpot... |
| 09.06.2006 | Wikia & Northern Light: The sucking sounds continue in Silicon Valley and China | Updated
(credit: BusinessWeek)
Silicon Valley and China continue to be the magnets for talent.
Though if you are Chinese-born, China is becoming the sexier draw.
News that China venture capital firm Northern Light Partners raised $88 millio... |
| 05.06.2006 | Gil Penchina Leaves eBay To Run Wikia | Gil Penchina, previously eBay’s Vice President and GM of International, is now the CEO of new startup Wikia.
Wikia is the for profit sister site of Wikipedia. Where Wikipedia focuses on verifiable facts, Wikia is all about opinions – travel... |
| 30.03.2006 | Thurs morn catchup in Silicon Valley: Ellison’s double dip, Google’s genetic search & more | (photo credit: Ethan Hill)
Breaking through the ol’ boys network — Here’s a noteworthy story about two female Stanford graduates, and how they succeeded in building a national concierge business called Circles. It is a little long, but has ... |
| 27.03.2006 | Wikia Raises $4 Million | Wikia, formerly called Wikicities, announced a $4 million Series A round today. The financing was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Omidyar Network, and had participation from angel investors Dan Gillmor, Reid Hoffman, Joichi Ito, and Mi... |
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