Posts Tagged with ‘press-release’

I have already said here on Profy before that unlike many bloggers I do appreciate various requests to review a website that land in my inbox. The reason in my case is quite simple – I don’t really love hunting for information and news and when something is pushed to my eyes, I will appreciate [...]

I missed an embargo lifting this morning. It's happened on occasion when life has overtaken my planned schedule for testing and writing, or we've missed an email due to the enormous amount of spam that often comes into the address for pitches, but I would much rather miss being "one of the first" to review [...]

As I am sure you already know, viral video is all the rage on the internet. It is all about sharing and embedding your favorite video content into other sources such as your social network profile or a blog. Now, bloggers have an all new place to catch the latest videos… but this time, they [...]

If you haven't heard of eBaum's World, a viral online video portal, now you will. HandHeld Entertainment, has purchased the popular web destination for $15 million in cash and another $2.5 million in stock. Current estimates suggest a possible total of $50 million in cash and stock over the next three years. Today's press release [...]

Beginning Friday, August 3 at 8 a.m., LonelyGirl15 will begin showing its season finale on MySpaceTV every hour for 12 hours in a row. The “12 in 12″ final episodes will follow the cast as they try to find their missing friend. Each episode is usually between 1 to 4 minutes long. Expect the second [...]

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 [...]

ThinkFree, perhaps the Web's foremost online office productivity suite launched ThinkFree Docs on Tuesday. ThinkFree Docs allows users to search, share, tag and publish MS Office documents online the way some sites allow image sharing. The free service extends the existing ThinkFree online community of 275,000 users and adds functionality and collaboration. Additional search and filtering capabilities [...]

JobTonic.com, a company we profiled a little over a week ago, is rewarding its first referral with a £375 finder's fee. The site, which launched in 2006, allows users to refer friends, acquaintances, and themselves for open positions, replacing a traditional headhunter or employment service with real-life social networks. In this case, a Mr. B [...]

European Internet start-up Webjam raises $2 million in first-round funding. Webjam, a London startup founded by Yahoo! veterans, has just received their first round funding of about $2 million for further product development. We received the press release from Webjam Ltd. announcing this latest news about the versatile online community. Webjam has been in Beta testing [...]