Creative Weblogging has grown up quite a bit since its inception. We are now 5 full time employees in Palo Alto, CA and work with more than 70 bloggers in many parts of the world. 55+ sites in...

David Hornick at VentureBlog discovers that suddenly Augusta's Web 2.0 investments have 33 competitors in their sector - on average! "To give you a sense of the interesting challenge venture...

SimplyHired raises $13.5 million from Fox Interactive: "This provides tremendous distribution and visibiity for Simply Hired,'' Godhwani said. He added that the funding will allow the...

Chris recently hinted me to hitflip.de a DVD and media trading platform in Germany. While Peerflix made headlines with financing rounds, hitflip.de tries to build the business from the bottom-up....

My recent switch to Linux also helped me to get out of the 'MS Outlook dungeon' that had encompassed computer usage in the last years for me. I could not find a real good calendar software...

PE WeekWire reports about MeetUp's latest round: "MeetUp Inc., a New York-based provider of Internet software for managing community groups, last month disclosed that it had sold just over...

The Tribeca Film Festival 2006 calls for a short movie competition! Record and show them your own story in 15 seconds and win honor and glory. In order to make your submissions as successful as...

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Jigsaw continues to raise big cash with a Series C bringing in $12 million. " The funding round was led by Austin Ventures and also included previous investors El Dorado Ventures and Norwest...

Jim sends in the latest analysis from btbOnline: "New York-M&A activity in the media and information industry was up sharply in the first quarter, compared with the same period last year,...

I recently sat together for lunch with James Kim, founder an interesting company that just started - Opinmind. Opinmind has developed a cool new natural language processing technology that is able to...

Youtube - the online video hoster does a full blown Round B - raising $8.5 million. "The San Mateo, California-based company had raised its first round of $3.5 million from Sequoia last November...

A reader recently suggested me to take a look at this interesting start-up - United Mobile. Imagine you equip your mobile phone with a magic SIM card that lets you roam and receive calls for free...

I recently received an invitation to do an interview with Meevee's President Michael Raneri. "Michael Raneri oversees all company operations as well as manages relationships with...

Ringtones have become a sizeable business bringing in millions for companies selling them and billions for operators. A good friend of mine Chris Schagen took the helm of German Jamba after it was...