Posts Tagged with ‘investment’

A semantic search engine Quintura has announced today that they have drawn “several million dollars” of funding from Mangrove Capital Partners, a European investor specializing in financing early-stage startups (it was the one to discover and fund Skype, for example).
This is not the first investment in Quintura for Mangrove - it was also the one behind Quintura’s seed funding in November 2006 as well as behind the series A round in June 2007.
The funding arrives as a part of the [...]

We here at Profy have spoken before of Vuze. A video content distribution company built upon the P2P-based platform Azureus, Vuze is akin to the iTunes TV shop in that it provides easy access to professionally-produced material both new and old – albeit with one great distinction: most of the stuff’s free.
Fairly recently, Vuze made a few headlines through the issuance of a petition to the FCC to investigate and halt ISPs’ practices of throttling bandwidth and network access [...]

Where are We Going?
I really am so pleased to be a writer here at Profy.com. After writing 30 post or so about a variety of web 2.0 subjects, I thought I would take the time to summarize my thoughts about web 2.0 in general. So much attention and effort is put into all our reporting here and on other sites. Effort should always be focused in order for progress to be made without undue wasted effort. Perhaps I can [...]

We can definitely say that online video advertising marketplace booms. During the last year the market surged 82.2%. eMarketerpredictsthat in 2007 online video ad spending will grow 89% faster than last year and will reach $775 million. These bright prospects are supported by the key metric releasedby online video solutions provider Klipmart: online video ads are four times more efficient than any other online ads and can even compete with traditional TV advertising.
So new investments into online video marketplace do [...]

It is well-known that sometimes comments to a blog post constitute a necessary addition to the post itself. Sometimes a discussion in the comments is even much more informative than the original post.
We also know that users tend to comment to other posts more than they write in their own blogs. But although the performance of blog platforms is constantly enhanced, that of commenting features remains the same (except for some necessary minor improvements).
But coComment – the startup launched in [...]