Category: announcement
Quixey adds Eric Schmidt’s Fund and Archimedes Ventures to investor line up
Yesterday, Bay Area start-up Quixey announced that Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors fund had invested in the company. I’m pleased to say that along with my partners in Archimedes Ventures we have also joined the roster of investors in the company. All the best to Tomer Kagan and his team as they execute. The technology they…
launching seriouslymedia
I decided to start publishing a blog about the challenges and opportunities facing the media business because I think the subject is seriously interesting. I read almost everything and everybody, and there are some great resources (paidcontent.org; techcrunch; ReadWriteWeb; GigaOm; Henry Blodget’s blog; Jeff Jarvis, Don Dodge, various industry research analysts, the media itself,…
edgeio has announced the paid content platform. Distributed Commerce meets Web 2.0
Press release for download Product Description given to Gnomedex Attendees News from the Web on this: Digg – here Techmeme – here and here ReadWrite web – here TechCrunch – here Venturebeat – here Gnomedex – here Jeff Jarvis – here Dan Farber – ZDNet – here Rob Hof at BusinessWeek – here Bub.blicio.us –…
Looks like Vonage may be on the mend.
http://www3.edgeio.com/widget/pl-teaser?itemID=13055161&affID=2596
Its true – TechCrunch and F***edCompany to do press release tonight.
Another deal I have had to keep under wraps….. Techcrunch and F***edCompany are set to release news of a merger tonight at around 9pm Pacific Time. Mike has blogged it early due to rumors circulating on the web. Techmeme has it here.
It is true. Heather Harde is new TechCrunch CEO
Om Malik has the scoop but this is something I have been keeping under my hat for several weeks. Heather Harde, former Fox Interactive Media executive, responsible for Mergers and Acquisitions, is to be the new CEO of TechCrunch. ———————————————————————- UPDATE Mike has now confirmed the news here. ———————————————————————- Heather was a key figure in…
Salim Ismail to head Yahoo Brickhouse
TechCrunch reports that Salim Ismail is to head the Yahoo Brickhouse project. Yahoo’s intention is to create an internal incubator – think Google Labs – and so encourage innovation and productizing akin to forming lots of internal startups. Salim is a great choice for this role. Currently heading up Confabb (to be replaced by David…
OpenCoffee meetup in Palo Alto
My good friend Saul Klein has bullied and cajoled me into hosting an opencoffee meetup in Palo Alto. They will be on Tuesday mornings at 8.30am. We will meet in Deuce France (my favorite coffee and pastries place). It has great coffee and awesome pan au raison or pan au chocolat. The goal is to…
edgeio launches Classified Boards
As promised John Dowd – the product manager for edgeio marketplaces – opened up the beta of the Classified Boards product to the public today.TechCrunch France has already used the platform to launch Crunchboard France. The announcement is here; Dan Farber has covered it here, and Robert Scoble has an exclusive video walkthrough on the…
edgeio pre-launches “listings boards”
I have just posted a full announcement on the edgeio blog that we are about to launch a commerce platform called edgeio marketplaces. You can read about it and join up for the beta at http://marketplaces.edgeio.com. In a nutshell it is attempting to make the process of creating revenue carrying features as simple for a…