Fiverr is looking to expand its reach in the micro-services space and has just received another $15 million in funding. The round was led by Accel Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners and adds to the $5 million the company received at the start of its operations. Founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Shai Wininger and Micha Kaufman [...]
May 17th, 2012 by Anthony West
Microsoft PowerPoint has long since been the standard for creating presentations that both engage and bore, but people have complained for years that PowerPoint tends to rest on the boring side. Which is why Prezi was created. The zooming presentation software allows for more dynamic presentations; objects and videos can be moved around the screen [...]
May 17th, 2012 by Anthony West
Domain Name Journal weekly comes out with the most notable sales for a given week from the various domain name sites on the Internet. It reports the top sales along with other notable information and numbers. Some of the domain name companies it reports sales from are Go Daddy, Sedo, Afternic, ICM registry and many [...]
May 17th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
If Google had seen the potential success of blending social media with healthcare it might not have discontinued its Google Health product the other day. But c’est la vie as they say, the benefits of the fusion is now falling to companies like ZocDoc. The social media themed healthcare service allows patients to search via [...]
May 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
The mobile payments processing space is looking pretty interesting now that PayPal has entered the fray. Its offering is dubbed ‘PayPal Here’ and was launched back in March of this year to compete with runaway favorite, Square. PayPal Here is no different from Square and lets small businesses handle mobile payments via Android and iOS [...]
May 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
Tweeting has become very ubiquitous in our lives but for some reason Twitter can’t seem to break out of its numbers slump. A couple months back there was talk that Twitter would break 500 million users but that prediction fell flat on its face. We now know that Twitter really has around 140 million active [...]
May 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
Sedo.com is a successful and popular domain name selling company. They sell domain names of various price ranges from a few hundred, or thousand dollars, to big 6 figure domain names. These are sold to various companies, large and small, and the individual alike. These sales also take place internationally. Sedo recently announced its sales [...]
May 16th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
There has never been a more lucrative time for spammers like now and it seems the mobile phone is the new cash cow. According to new figures from a Bloomberg report and spam expert Richi Jennings, text message spam is the fastest growing sector among spammers and increased 45% in 2011 to a staggering 4.5 [...]
May 15th, 2012 by Anthony West
Google just released its latest search engine update recently dubbed ‘Penguin’ and this has left many webmasters holding their heads. Make no mistake about it, SEO is going to become more and more important—not less as some people like to predict. This of course means that SEO oriented companies will be in high demand, hence [...]
May 15th, 2012 by Anthony West
In this day and age, we are being taken over by technology; from not just the internet but having it at our fingertips at all times through the use of laptops, smart phones, iPads, etc. Social media sites are the top sites on the world wide web and people plan their life around these new [...]
May 15th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
One of the most successful social media growth stories in in the last few years has been Pinterest and like other platforms before it, the secret to growth has hinged heavily on well it plays with Facebook. Pinterest is of course a social/virtual pinboard, but it relies heavily on Facebook to get people talking and [...]
May 14th, 2012 by Anthony West
Facebook makes its debut on the NASDAQ in a few weeks and the search giant is busy enticing potential investors with new numbers on its performance. Facebook has filed not one, or two S-1 filings with the SEC but four! The fourth and latest filing reveals that the company now has over 901 million active [...]
May 14th, 2012 by Anthony West
How often do you see an investment company putting in $250,000 and taking out $78,000,000? Your answer might just be “not every day”, and you know what? You would be spot on! But that is precisely what Andreessen Horowitz (HW), the tech VC was able to do with its investment in Instagram. The $1 billion [...]
May 14th, 2012 by Anthony West
The domain name selling companies, Sedo and Afternic, are both very popular and successful domain name selling businesses. They are always being noted for top sales during their weekly sales reports and often sell notable domain names at 5 and 6 figure amounts, though they also offer domain names at more affordable prices to meet [...]
May 14th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
Google is looking to attract customers for its latest advertising product dubbed AdWords for video. As is the tactic these days, Google is offering advertising credits to businesses that sign up and use the service and reports are that a whopping $50 million worth of ad credits are up for grabs. An official releases from [...]
May 13th, 2012 by Anthony West
Facebook spent $1 billion to acquire Instagram and now it has slashed out another $550 million—this time for patents. The social networking giant has inked a deal that will see Microsoft transfer 650 of the 925 patents it [Microsoft] acquired from AOL just last month. The deal seems to have a lot more than just [...]
May 13th, 2012 by Anthony West
Big-dollar revenues are not unheard of in the tech sector, but $5.5 billion in the first quarter is not something you hear about often. This is how much Xerox made in the first quarter of 2012 and it has certainly got people talking. The talk is as much about the $5.5 billion as it is [...]
May 13th, 2012 by Anthony West
Sedo.com is a very popular and successful domain name selling company. Recently they released their sales report for the week ending April 23rd and their total sales amount was around $1.5 million, so no doubt a great sales week for the company. The top domain name sale was GameGlobe.com which sold for $50,000. Below is [...]
May 13th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
