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EBay to friend Facebook in new partnership

by Hannah Young, October 12, 2011 | Comments

Two online moguls to announce deepening of relationship at San Francisco conference

EBay and Facebook are set to announce Wedneday a deeper relationship at the eBay’s X.commerce conference in San Francisco. The new partnership will be between eBay’s new X.commerce division and Facebook’s developer unit, Facebook Platform, according Reuter’s. The X.commerce conference is the official launch of eBay’s X.commerece division, which targets developers to build commerce solutions. The conference, which ...

Feedback on Facebook's official iPad app

by Hannah Young, October 11, 2011 | Comments

Facebook debuts its iPad app after months of leaks and rumors

Now that Facebook's iPad app has been out for 24 hours, what's the feedback? On iTunes, where the app is available to download free, there have only three user reviews. All relate to the app crashing in iOS5 or not displaying properly. On the Web, the general concensus seems to be the app is as expected, which isn’t surprising given ...

VC fundraising tanks 24% in Q3

by Hannah Young, October 10, 2011 | Comments

Early-stage fund-raising sees steepest decline

VC fundraising hasn’t recovered since it was cut in half following the 2008 recession, and early-stage start-ups looking for backing may have to get creative because of it. New statistics from Dow Jones LP Source show that 32 U.S. venture funds raised $2.2 billion during the third quarter, a 24 percent drop from the same period last year when 40 ...

Samsung and Google postpone Nexus Galaxy debut

by Hannah Young, October 7, 2011 | Comments

"Just not the right time" said the two companies

Photo credit to gizmocrave.com If you were holding out a week on ordering the iPhone 4S in order to check out the debut of Samsung’s Nexus Galaxy featuring Android’s latest OS, Ice Cream Sandwich, your wait just got longer. Samsung and Google were supposed to unveil the highly anticipated, and heavily leaked, Nexus Galaxy at a CTIA event next Tuesday ...

Zuckerburg remembers Jobs in Facebook post

by Hannah Young, October 6, 2011 | Comments

Steve Jobs was a mentor to young innovators and leaders

There is a black cloud over Silicon Valley Thursday, with the news of the loss of late Apple founder Steve Jobs to pancreatic cancer. Countless blog posts, tweets, and Facebook updates express the mourning felt by the loss of the visionary. Mark Zukerburg joined in the online memorials, posting a message to his Facebook page remembering Jobs. “Steve, thank you ...

EzCater raises $630K in seed round

by Hannah Young, October 5, 2011 | Comments

Online catering order service will use seed funding to expand client base

Online catering middleman ezCater announced Wednesday it had raised a $630K seed round. Somewhat of a Frankenstein’s monster of Airbnb, GrubHub, and Yelp, ezCater provides reviews, ratings, and menus to help connect customers to local caterers. The round had no definitive leader but investors included Jill Preotle, Director and early investor at ZipCar and TaskRabbit; Spinnaker Trust; Mike Masterson, co-founder ...

Lijit sold to Federated Media Publishing

by Hannah Young, October 4, 2011 | Comments

Amount of deal undisclosed but CEO said revenue will be $12 million for 2011

Federated Media Publishing, founded by the evenly-tanned and impeccably-dressed John Battelle (who makes recurring appearances in Vator News reporters' dreams), announced Tuesday that it has acquired advertising solutions and analytics company Lijit Networks. The price of the deal was undisclosed but CEO Todd Vernon said in an interview today with Vator News that the deal “was a significant transaction for Colorado in the ...

Overseas IPOs hot trend for start-ups in Q3

by Hannah Young, October 3, 2011 | Comments

Start-ups looked overseas to fulfill IPO goals while acquisition rates doubled

Should Groupon, LivingSocial, or any of the venture-backed companies currently planning an IPO go public overseas instead of the U.S.? If they did, they wouldn’t be alone. Half of the venture-backed companies that completed an IPO last quarter went public overseas, according to the report, according to a just-released report by the Dow Jones VentureSource. The report shows that of ...

ClearSlide lands $11 million from Greylock Partners

by Hannah Young, September 28, 2011 | Comments

Greylock joins Felicis in backing a provider of cloud-based sales communications

ClearSlide, which helps sales teams manage their communications on a cloud platform, announced Wednesday that it's raised $11 million in a Series A funding round led by Greylock Partners. Existing investor Felicis Ventures also participated in the round. There are noteably fewer platforms that help ease the logistics of communicating with clients, even though customer relationship management services such as ...

Facebook iPad app to launch... finally?

by Hannah Young, September 28, 2011 | Comments

Facebook to announce iPad app at Apple's Oct. 4 iPhone 5 launch

Since f8, Facebook has been front and center in the media and across the Web. What Facebook hasn't done, however, is to announce the launch of an iPad Facebook app. It appears the wait may be less than a week away, according to Mashable’s Ben Parr. Parr reported Tuesday that Facebook will launch the iPad app at Apple’s iPhone 5 ...

Chomp: Taking a bite out of Google's AdWords?

by Hannah Young, September 27, 2011 | Comments

	Chomp Search Ads is the AdWords for apps Move over Google -- at least in app advertising. App search engine Chomp launched Tuesday a private beta advertising program that allows developers to bid on keywords or phrases and will deliver the ads to users who search for those keywords or phrases in an app store. Chomp is already somewhat of a pioneer in the app search industry, with ...
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Groupon's rollercoaster ride leading up to its IPO

by Hannah Young, September 25, 2011 | Comments

It's never a dull day for the daily deal giant

One of the year’s most highly-anticipated IPOs has become one of the more questionable. And, it's not because of the sluggish economy. Late this week, Groupon submitted a restatement to its initial filing to go public that said it would change what it counts as revenue from gross to net—effectively cutting reported revenue in half. Coupled with this came the ...

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