October 2, 2007 on 6:56 pm No Comments
Even planning startup Punchbowl has now tasted venture money. The startup today announced the closing of a seed round of funding led by Intel Capital with participation from eCoast Angels. Additional angel investors from Silicon Valley and Boston also participated it the funding. The startup disclose the amount of funds raised. Launched early this year, their product is located MyPunchbowl.com that supposedly has a user-friendly interface as compared to crummy Evite.
October 2, 2007 on 6:49 pm No Comments
Video sharing site Metacafe has a management addon. The startup today announced that David Rice has joined the company as Vice President of Product. Rice most recently served as a vice president of products for Yahoo! International and before that he worked with MSN, AvantGo, and Boston Consulting Group. Metacafe claims to be the largest independent online video site(so does DailyMotion) with 27 million unique monthly viewers . {related}
October 1, 2007 on 7:35 pm No Comments
Big day for Yahoo mobile. Today the company announced partnership with Spanish telecom operator Telefonica that will deliver oneSearch, Yahoo Mail, and Flickr on additional 100M handsets. Get comments here.
October 1, 2007 on 6:14 pm No Comments
After Disney redesigned it’s website and successfully saw an increase in traffic, other sites are following suit. iWon.com, which provides social networking features like building personal profiles, chat, and widgets today relaunched the site with new games(aka casual gaming 2.0), prizes, and more. For a brief history - since 1999, IWON.com has given away over $70 million in cash and prizes to its users, hosting an annual $1 million giveaway.
