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Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini announced today that the startup founded five years ago has finally made it to profitability. The site has seen a lot of changes since then. It began as one of the original Web 2.0 personalized homepages, became a distributed widget platform, changed CEOs (when founder Tariq Krim stepped down [...]
Thu, April 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Trying to control, or even manage, your online reputation is becoming increasingly difficult. And much like the fight by big labels against the illegal sharing of music, it will soon become pointless to even try. It’s time we all just give up on the small fights and become more accepting of the indiscretions of our [...]
Sun, March 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Yahoo is showing a little Apple love today, launching not one but two free search apps in Apple’s app store today. Yahoo’s basic Search app tries to bring an enhanced version of Yahoo Search to the iPhone with plenty of bells and whistles, while Yahoo’s Sketch-a-Search iPhone app is aimed towards discovering local restaurants
Yahoo’s Search [...]
Tue, March 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Mobile analytics startup Motally is bringing in a seasoned analytics executive, John Forese, as the startup’s new CEO. Forese was previously Nielsen Mobile’s Senior Vice President of Product Management. Additionally former Google Vice President of Product Development, Doug Garland, has joined Motally’s board of directors.
Prior to his tenure at Nielsen Mobile, Forese was a senior [...]
Thu, March 18 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
The promise of social recommendation sites has been alluring for years. What’s not to like? Friends share neat products and services with each other, and online retailers sell more stuff in the process. But despite this appeal, there still aren’t any recommendation services that have hit critical mass. Today, a young startup called [...]
Wed, February 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Analytics can be valuable if you are able to actually turn this data into content that you can understand and draw actionable insights from them. Generally this is done through analytics reporting systems, which will make sense of data and produce reports. Today, Motally, which provides user-action tracking services for the mobile web and apps, [...]
Fri, February 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
