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AOL To Pour $50 Million Into Patch This Year
Yesterday brought the news that AOL sold Buy.at, the affiliate marketing network it bought in early 2008, to UK network Digital Window. AOL acquired Buy.at for a rumored $125 million two years ago. Today, AOL filed a 10-K report that revealed that AOL only sold Buy.at for $17 million, taking a hit of a whopping $108 million. Another fascinating ...
ExactTarget Buys CoTweet, Sets Up “Social Media Lab” In San Francisco
Email marketing software giant ExactTarget has agreed to acquired CoTweet , a young company that offers a tool that enables multiple people to communicate on Twitter through corporate accounts. CoTweet will continue to operate from San Francisco as a business unit of ExactTarget , essentially taking charge of the company’s social media product development. CoTweet co-founder and CEO Jesse ...
The Filter Signs DailyMotion Deal For Its Discovery Engine
The Filter , which pitches itself literally as a personalized discovery engine for digital entertainment, has signed a deal with Dailymotion , one of the world’s largest video sites. The deal is most significant mainly for The Filter, since its main business model is as a white label personalisation engine for mass audiences. Specifically it will deliver recommendation services ...
Y Combinator To Startups: “We think the iPad is meant to be a Windows killer”
Last August, we wrote about Y Combinator’s latest idea: RFS , or, Requests for Startups. Basically, this allows the incubator to lead entrepreneurs in a certain direction based on trends they think will be hot. Y Combinator then selects the best ideas based around these guidelines to fund. The latest RFS (number 6) , throws down a gauntlet, of ...
Google claims that Microsoft is encouraging third party anti-trust lawsuits
Microsoft certainly knows a thing or two about anti-trust suits , and if the kids at Google are to be believed the company is waging something of a proxy war on them by injecting itself in lawsuits and complaints brought up by third parties. As Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich told The Wall Street Journal , "our competitors are scouring ...
Microsoft sending mixed signals on Windows Phone 7 Series upgrades, HTC HD2 still in limbo
The fate of the mighty HTC HD2 seems to be getting murkier by the minute: Microsoft UK VP Alex Reeve said last week that an upgrade to Windows Phone 7 Series might be left up to hardware partners , but now Natasha Kwan, General Manager for Microsoft's Asia Pacific Mobile Communications Business says the 1GHz handset "doesn't qualify because ...
TAG Heuer and Tesla Motors team up to show off products you can’t afford
The Tesla Roadster runs on batteries, and so too do (many) TAG Heuer watches. It's out of this obvious correlation that the TAG Heuer Tesla Roadster was born, a one-off special edition skinned in some unfortunate graphics then blessed with an extra slot in the center console for a similarly spendy Meridiist phone. There's also room in there for ...
Announcing: TechCrunch Disrupt, May 24-26 in New York
New York, the city that never sleeps, may finally meet its match. TechCrunch is coming, and we’re bringing three days of non-stop conference and startup-competition energy, May 24-26. We call it TechCrunch Disrupt because we want to debate what’s really changing in media and technology right now, what’s causing disruption and what we need to do about it to ...
In Wake Of Fabulis Debacle, Citibank Makes Changes To Internet Business Policy
Last week, Citibank found itself in the eye of an Internet storm after it was revealed that the bank had blocked the business account of Web startup fabulis over (non-existing) ‘objectionable content’ on the company’s blog . The topic was all the more sensitive because fabulis operates a social network / lifestyle website targeting gay men. A Citi representative ...
Guest Post: UK Startup Rules Aren’t Perfect, But Watch This Space
Alex van Someren is a “Dealmaker” with the Global Entrepreneur Programme at the department of UK Trade and Investment. A serial entrepreneur specialising in IT software and hardware product development businesses, he’s had two exits through IPOs and is now Entrepreneur in Residence at Judge Business School. Below, he answers our recent guest post which attacked the way UK ...
