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The official Foursquare account just sent out a tweet letting everyone know that today is already the service’s biggest day ever. This is interesting since it’s actually the day before the SXSW conference kicks off in Austin, Texas.
According to the tweet, Foursquare broke 275,000 check-ins (the previous record, set last Friday) for the day “hours [...]
Fri, March 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Eyeblaster, an online advertising firm, has filed for a $115 million IPO according to a recent SEC filing. This is actually Eyeblaster’s second bid for a $115 million IPO — they filed for one at the same price early in 2008, before the IPO market dried up.
The company makes a variety of products, including [...]
Wed, March 10 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Hamburg, Germany based Qype, a Yelp-like site that’s focused on European markets, has recently had long acquisition looks from both Google and Nokia, we’ve heard from multiple sources. A deal with Nokia in particular was looking extremely likely until recently.
The site was first launched in 2005 and today attracts 9 million monthly worldwide visitors, according [...]
Sat, February 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
We first wrote about Shit My Dad Says, the Twitter account a 20-something-year-old guy set up to tweet out bits of wisdom from his 73-year-old father, back in August. By November, the account had already landed creator Justin Halpern a TV deal. And today, it has now landed him William Shatner to star in it.
The [...]
Sat, February 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
It’s been through several owners, legal battles and even the subject of books, but Sex.com will be sold once again in an auction next month. Bids will start at $1 million.
Ownership over the Sex.com domain was the subject of a decade-long legal battle chronicled in not one, but two books. It was sold [...]
Thu, February 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Yesterday, we got a nice little breakdown of which clients are used most often for the location-based service Foursquare (hint: still the iPhone). Today, the company has some new big news to share via a tweet: they’re now doing over a million check-ins a week.
Not even a month ago, Foursquare noted that they were seeing [...]
Sat, February 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
