Posts tagged 50 Million
Is Google about to gobble up Yelp?
Dec 18th
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Google is in the advanced stages of a bid to acquire Yelp for more than half a billion dollars, according to a report in TechCrunch. The acquisition of the popular review site would advance Google’s position in the local search marketplace considerably, given Yelp’s devoted following in metropolitan areas across the U.S. and deep [...]
RockYou shakes up management ranks as it goes after brands
Dec 11th
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RockYou is shaking up its management team after it received a bunch of funding to go after brand partners in an effort to grow its app business and ad network on Facebook.
In the restructuring, Lisa Marino will move from vice president of sales to chief revenue officer for the San Francisco company. Meanwhile, [...]
Is concept-based advertising the future of Internet ads?
Dec 10th
The way Internet ads work right now is fairly basic: Publishers create pages with a certain word or phrase in it, and advertisers buy ads next to those particular keywords. If you search for â??guitar,â? or write a blog about guitars, you’re going to see a lot of ads for guitars.
But, wondered NetSeer chief executive John [...]
Aardvark considers a $30 million-plus offer from Google
Dec 7th
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The leaders behind a prominent Silicon Valley social search startup may be contemplating returning to the mothership.
TechCrunch is reporting that Aardvark, a company founded by ex-Googlers including CEO Max Ventilla, is weighing a $30 million-plus offer for an acquisition.
The site just opened to the public in October and raised about $6 million from [...]
