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| Mar 14, 2014 | Google Closes Wildfire To New Customers, Continues DoubleClick Integration | Google acquired Wildfire back in 2012 to bring its social media marketing services to its own customers. Last summer, Google started integrating Wildfire into the DoubleClick platform.
Now, Google is going to “limit” its investments in the ... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Google’s Wildfire Social Marketing Platform Cuts Standalone Plans To Upsell To Its Full Suite | When Google wanted to get into the game of selling social ads across all platforms, it decided to acquire Wildfire, a company that had the market on lockdown. Since the acquisition last July, little has changed as far as what Wildfire offer... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | Dave McClure predicts startups will ‘f***ing fail’ 24 hours before demo day | 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!
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.– A day before 500 Startups’... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | Dave McClure predicts startups will ‘f***ing fail’ 24 hours before demo day | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.– A day before 500 Startups’ demo day, Dave McClure is spouting doom, gloom, and profanity.
“Most things fail,” the influential and opinionated angel investor said on stage.
“The primary reason most startups fail is lac... |
| Jan 21, 2013 | Killing it in enterprise via the Dropbox strategy, Offerpop adds new ‘big data’ product | Offerpop is taking a page from Dropbox. Or Salesforce.com. Or if you want to go old-school, the personal computer itself.
The social media marketing platform that competes with the likes of Wildfire, Sprinklr, and Involver grew 440 percent ... |
| Jan 21, 2013 | Killing it in enterprise via the Dropbox strategy, Offerpop adds new ‘big data’ product | 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!
Offerpop is taking a page from Dropbox. Or Salesf... |
| Aug 31, 2012 | Who are the 2012 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs? | FORTUNE — One of this year’s Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs multitasks in Hollywood. She’s a movie star.
Another 2012 MPW Entrepreneur just sold her company to Google for a reported $350 million.
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| Aug 8, 2012 | The most successful Swiss entrepreneur in Silicon Valley | Alain Chuard grew up in Berne and left Switzerland in the age of 20. For some years he lived in New Zealand where he started his first company together with Victoria Ransom: Access Travel, Ltd., a leading brand in instructional adventure tr... |
| Aug 6, 2012 | Google Slaps $100M Golden Handcuffs On Wildfire To Retain Employees After $350M Acquisition | After buying social marketer Wildfire for $350 million, Google wants to ensure it keeps earning money and the employees don’t bail. That’s why Google set up $100 million in earn-outs and retention bonuses, multiple sources confirm. One, an ... |
| Aug 2, 2012 | Zuckerberg’s Sister Was In Israel On Birthright When She Found Out She Is A Google Employee | As previously reported, Google announced this week that it is acquiring social media marketing platform company Wildfire. It didn’t take long for reports to bring up the fact that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s sister is part of the Wildfir... |
| Jul 31, 2012 | Wildfire Only Sells Ads Through Its Partner Adaptly, So Will Google Buy Them Too? | Wildfire, just acquired by Google, isn’t a social ads company. It relies on its partner Adaptly for access to ads APIs for Facebook and other sites. That means Google may buy Adaptly or another ads company any minute now. Otherwise Google w... |
| Jul 31, 2012 | Google Acquires Wildfire, Will Now Sell Facebook And Twitter Marketing Services [Update: $350M Price] | Google has just bought social marketing software developer Wildfire, which lets brands serve marketing and ad campaigns on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and LinkedIn. Wildfire has grown to 400 employees over the last four y... |
| Jul 16, 2012 | Marissa Mayer joining the ranks of other female CEOs | More women creating their own companies, female CEOs at major companies still rare
After Scott Thompson’s public downfall at Yahoo, many assumed it would be interim CEO Ross Levinsohn that would take over full time. Instead Yahoo went in a ... |
| Mar 29, 2012 | Don’t Dread Today’s Mandatory Switch To Timeline, Studies Show It’s Good For 95% Of Facebook Pages | On March 1st Facebook let the world feast its eyes on Timeline for Pages, and today after a month of voluntary migration it will force all Pages to switch to the redesign. But don’t worry, it doesn’t significantly impact the rate of new Pag... |
| Mar 21, 2012 | Wildfire Is Huge: First Stats In Years Reveal Social Marketer’s 300 Employees, 13K Customers | Through the hard-fought battle to represent the world’s brands, social marketing platform Wildfire has stayed quiet. But today, it revealed to TechCrunch that it has 13,000 paying customers, more than any company in the space, and has grown... |
| Oct 3, 2011 | Wildfire Launches Analytics Suite That Integrates With Facebook’s New Page Insights | Social media marketing software maker Wildfire is announcing its integration with the new Facebook Insights data, the update to Facebook’s analytics system for Pages, also announced today. Wildfire had helped advise Facebook on the developm... |
| Aug 3, 2011 | YC-Funded PageLever Offers Deeper Insight Into Facebook Analytics | Facebook may have droves of publishers, brands, celebrities, and other major entities using Facebook Pages, but its internal analytics product — Insights — still leaves a lot to be desired. Now Y Combinator-funded startup PageLever wants to... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Wildfire Gets A Major Upgrade, Launches Facebook Page Builder, Analytics, And More | Back in January 2010, a small FBfund company called Wildfire was making a name for itself by helping brands and businesses launch viral campaigns — sweepstakes, contests, and the like — on Twitter and Facebook. It had around eight employees... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Oracle Gets More Social and Takes on Adobe with FatWire Acquisition | Oracle announced today that it will acquire FatWire. Financial details were not disclosed. FatWire bills itself as customer experience management company and provides tools for content management, community forums, analytics, digital asset ... |
| Dec 17, 2010 | Wildfire Launches A 'Compete.com' For Twitter And Facebook Accounts | For many years, the tech industry has gauged the success of websites by tracking usage stats like the number of unique visitors and page views the site receives each month. Wildfire, a service that helps companies run contests and social me... |
| Sep 27, 2010 | Geeks and Entrepreneurs Gather in New York for BizTechDay | The Times Center in New York City was packed on Friday with some of the brightest minds in both business and technology for the first-ever east coast edition of BizTechDay, a one-day conference for entrepreneurs now in its third year.
The e... |
| Sep 15, 2010 | New Logistics: Web-Based Tools for International Marketing | While the logistics of moving goods and information around the globe is rapidly changing, marketing to international audiences, for the most part, is little different from marketing domestically. Abe Burmeister, co-founder of apparel compan... |
| Aug 13, 2010 | TC Disrupt Finalist Appbistro Raises $550K For Its Facebook App Marketplace | Appbistro, a marketplace for Facebook tabs that businesses, bands, and brands can use to add functionality to their Facebook pages, has just scored some angel funding. The company has raised a $550,000 convertible note led by Sand Hill Ange... |
| Aug 12, 2010 | Damntheradio launches Facebook promotions tool for artists and brands | 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!
Newly launched startup Damntheradio hopes to give... |
| Aug 12, 2010 | Damntheradio launches Facebook promotions tool for artists and brands | Newly launched startup Damntheradio hopes to give brands on Facebook an easy to use promotions tool for their Facebook Pages, the promotional presence most companies use to connect with the social network’s 500 million users.
The company ha... |
| Aug 12, 2010 | Damntheradio Launches, Ups The Ante On Facebook Branding | Damntheradio, an appropriately named social media CMS for bands and brands, launches today in private beta.
Part of the i/o ventures incubator, Damntheradio allows companies to strengthen relationships with their fans through Facebook and T... |
| Jul 13, 2010 | Brand Marketing Firm Involver Launches ‘AMP’ Social Media Dashboard | Involver, a company that helps both brands and smaller businesses manage their presence on Facebook, Twitter, and other online portals, has launched a new dashboard they’re calling AMP. The dashboard allows brands to aggregate all of their ... |
| Jul 12, 2010 | Mobile investing: Angels and big VC firms converge on capital-efficient deals | As mobile applications and startups become less pricey to fund, big investment firms are overlapping more and more with Silicon Valley angel investors as their funds and deal sizes shrink.
Today’s “Smart Strategies for Mobile Investing” ses... |
| Jul 12, 2010 | Mobile investing: Angels and big VC firms converge on capital-efficient deals | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As mobile applications and startups become less pricey to fund, big investment firms are overlapping more and more with Silicon Valley ... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | Offerpop launches community marketing apps for Twitter and Facebook | 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!
Offerpop, a software development company for soci... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | Offerpop launches community marketing apps for Twitter and Facebook | Offerpop, a software development company for social media applications, has launched a new marketing app that lets retailers and brands bolster their Twitter and Facebook profiles for maximum impact. Only the Twitter application is currentl... |
| Jun 19, 2010 | Appbistro Lands Wildfire For Its Facebook App Market | Last month at TechCrunch Disrupt, we saw the launch of Appbistro, a marketplace for Facebook tab applications that help companies and brands flesh out their Facebook Pages. Developers like it because it gives them an easy way to charge for ... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | Wildfire Raises $4 Million For Social Media Marketing Platform | Wildfire, a platform for building viral marketing campaigns, has received $4 million in Series A funding led by Summit Partners with additional investors, including Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut and Gary Vaynerchuk, participating in the round.... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | Wildfire Interactive Receives Funding | Wildfire Interactive, Inc., a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of social media marketing software, has received a minority investment.
The round was led by growth equity investor Summit Partners, with participation from a group of angel investo... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Facebook Helps Brands Get A Clue With Preferred Developer Consultant Program | Facebook has been making a strong push lately to embrace brands and celebrities through its Facebook Fan Pages, applications, and through Facebook Connect. Unfortunately, many brands have absolutely no idea how to engage their audience thro... |
| Nov 2, 2009 | Wildfire Launches A Legitimate, Easy To Use Sweepstakes Platform For Twitter | If you’ve been on Twitter for a while, there’s a good chance you’ve come across a tweet that asked you to retweet something (usually a link to a spammy-looking site) for the chance to enter a contest. Of course, these are typically bogus, l... |
| Sep 1, 2009 | fbFund's Wildfire builds contests on Facebook for brands | 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!
Remember marketing sweepstakes? You’d fill out a ... |
| Sep 1, 2009 | fbFund's Wildfire builds contests on Facebook for brands | Remember marketing sweepstakes? You’d fill out a card with your personal details for a chance at a Caribbean vacation or a free steam cleaning.
They’re moving online into Facebook Pages and Twitter in a way that could have farther reach and... |
| Sep 1, 2009 | Live From fbFund REV's Demo Day | I’m here at the demo day for fbFund REV, Facebook’s new incubator program that’s jointly put on by Accel Partners and Founders Fund. We’ve embedded a live stream of the event below, and I’ll be updating with notes on each company that prese... |
| May 6, 2009 | Ning Apps Bring A New Dimension Of Flexibility And Power To The Social Network Platform | Ning‘s social network-building platform is getting a huge boost today, with the private beta launch of Ning Apps, a new suite of applications and features that Network Creators will be able to deploy across their networks with only a few cl... |
| Mar 6, 2009 | Facebook fbFund Winner Wildfire Launches Promotion App (Beta Invites) | Facebook fbFund winner Wildfire is launching the private beta of its web application, The Wildfire Promotion Builder, which allows companies to create their own branded interactive promotions, including contests, coupons, sweepstakes and gi... |
| Dec 9, 2008 | Facebook's fbFund Names Winners of $225,000 Grants | Facebook has just named the five winners of $225,000 cash grants from the second round of its fbFund, a joint venture between Facebook, Accel, and Founders Fund meant to cultivate and reward excellent applications on Facebook Platform. The ... |
