eBay has acquired a small company called VUVOX to help further develop rich media capabilities in the eBay marketplace. The integration of VUVOX into eBay is aimed at creating an enhanced customer experience using the personal media tools and applying them to listings and pages on ebay.com.
Sarita Jones, 02 July 2008
Nokia continues on its social media related acquisition trail, with the purchase of Zurich and Berlin-based social networking service Plazes. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Sarita Jones, 31 July 2008
A new generation of social networking sites, led by FriendFeed, is trying to challenge the model of social networking companies such as MySpace and Facebook. The new service started by the creators of Google Maps and Gmail, claims that it is at the heart of an anarchic counter movement of...
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Michelle Wong, 19 September 2008
DocStoc, an LA-based start-up that makes sharing and embedding documents simple, has raised $3.25 million in Series B funding from Rustic Canyon Partners. DocStoc is aiming to be a user generated business community where users can find and share professional documents. The goal is to enable...
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Michelle Wong, 01 May 2008
Ning, the social networks player has quietly raised another $60m from private institutions, led by Allen & Company, to fund its expansion plans. The investment values Ning at around $500m. Ning aims to compete with the large social sites such as MySpace and Facebook by appealing to users who...
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Reiko Uchida, 24 April 2008