Posts Tagged with ‘breaking-news’

After all the talks yesterday about Yahoo’s ridiculous valuation, I have just noticed an incredibly interesting thing: Yahoo stock jumped all of a sudden by 9% to $12.76 as of writing this. It is absolutely understandable that Google Finance users are at a loss and can hardly understand what is the reason for someone to start buying Yahoo at such a rate. The immediate guess is that there are unconfirmed rumors of a new acquisition offer from Microsoft to arrive. [...]

One of my favorite Web 2.0 startups Veoh invited me to a webinar today to unveil what they termed a “Joost Killer”, their latest innovation VeohTV Beta. Dmitry Shapiro, CEO of Veoh has proved to be one of the most innovative and intelligent developers of this year and continues to add one excellent aspect after another to Veoh's service. VeohTV has been designed to provide users with an unparalleled Web TV experience and from Dmitry's demonstration of the new service's capabilities users [...]

We got some great news from Powerset today, that the much awaited “natural search” engine will be operating Powerlabs to get feedback and inform the Internet community. Co-founder Steve Newcomb provided us with the first look inside their Powerlabs program, which will be an ongoing feedback and information portal. Steve sent us a couple of exclusive screenshots revealing the Powerlabs interface and a search result (only the second ever seen outside Powerset’s doors). Powerlabs looks like it will be the [...]

Me.dium has just announced receiving $15 million in series B funding from various venture partners. According to our communique with Me.dium this round of investing was led by Commonwealth Venture Partners. Me.dium's existing investors Spark Capital, Appian Ventures and Brad Feld also took part in what is to be the driving push to open the doors to one of the year's most anticipated betas. This latest round brings Me.dium's total funding to $20 million since their June, 2006 founding.
Me.dium is a [...]