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28 Jul 2010 Comments:
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Last year, we covered the launch of Home-Account, a mortgage search and counseling service. Though launched in the implosion of the housing market, the site raised funding from an impressive group of investors, including Charles River Ventures, Marc Benioff, Ron Conway, Mark Pincus, and Jeff Clavier. One of the seed investors in the round was personal finance site Bills.com, which put close to a million dollars in Home-Account. Today, Home-Account is announcing that it has been acquired by Bills.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Date:
27 Jul 2010 Comments:
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Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo Japan, a joint venture between the
company and Softbank, has signed a deal to switch from using Microsoft’s (NASD:MSFT) search
results to Google’s (NASD:GOOG), All Things D reported. Under the terms, Yahoo Japan will use
Google’s search results, in addition to Google’s search ad technology platform. Read the rest of this entry »
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27 Jul 2010 Comments:
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Los Angeles - A new study from the Center for Digital Future
at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism found that 49% of
respondents have used free micro-blog sites like Twitter — but 0% of those
polled said they would pay to use Twitter. "Such an extreme finding that
produced a zero response underscores the difficulty of getting Internet users
to pay for anything that they already receive for free," said Jeffrey
Cole, the center’s director. Read the rest of this entry »
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26 Jul 2010 Comments:
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MadBid, a fast growing “pay-to-bid” auction site has secured 4 million in a Series A funding from Atomico Ventures. Launched in 2008, MadBid is one of a number of pay-to-bid auction sites which have appeared in the last couple of years, with Swoopo among them. CEO Juha Koski says the Atomico investment will be spent on technology and expanding in Europe. Mattias Ljungman of Atomico has joined the board.
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