What Company is Offering:
Zipidee is the Internet’s largest digital Prosumer Generated Content (PGC) marketplace for instructional, educational, health and fitness, sports, and special interest content. Zipidee has a rapidly expanding seller network of more than 600 content producers and distributors and over 150,000 repeat customers. The Zipidee marketplace receives over 300,000 visitors per month, browsing through more than 1 million pages of digital goods for sale.
How it Works:
Their platform provides the tools for media owners, from aspiring media moguls to large media companies, to market and sell original digital goods, including video, audio (books and music), eBooks, mobile content, and more, to complement existing sales channels. By giving sellers the freedom to choose how they distribute their digi-goods, from business model to price point, Zipidee allows buyers and sellers to rule and transact in an open marketplace. Zipidee is a privately held San Francisco-based company and is venture-backed by leading investors.
Recent Updates:
Zipidee, the online marketplace for premium instructional content, has acquired TotalVid from Landmark Communications for an undisclosed amount, greatly increasing Zipidee’s catalog of educational and instructional rental and download content.
More at:http://www.zipidee.com/
http://www.totalvid.com/
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
AllBusiness.com has been acquired by Dun & Bradstreet for $55 million
What Company is Offering:
AllBusiness.com is an online media and e-commerce company that operates one of the premier business sites on the Web. AllBusiness.com helps business professionals save time and money by addressing real-world business questions and presenting practical solutions. The site offers resources including how-to articles, business forms, contracts and agreements, expert advice, blogs, business news, business directory listings, product comparisons, business guides, a business association and more.
How it Works:
Business professionals can access AllBusiness.com's content and services through a number of channels, including the AllBusiness.com Web site; RSS feeds and email newsletters; and through its partnerships with leading Web properties. Their content, products and services are featured on a number of sites, including: BusinessWeek, CBSNews, NYTimes, SFGate.com, Washington Post, and Yahoo!. AllBusiness content also appears in the print edition of the San Francisco Chronicle as part of our business advisor program.
About Venture Deal:
AllBusiness.com has been taken on by Dun & Bradstreet for $55 million.The business information company has acquired the online resource for a healthy amount, and has raised its 2008 revenue outlook in order to account for the acquisition. Because no matter which way you slice it, $55 million isn’t a drop in the bucket for too many people or companies. As it currently stands, Dun & Bradstreet has forecast $10 million of incremental revenue for 2008, and the company is looking to 2009 to see an ROI for the purchase of AllBusiness, reports CNN Money.
About D&B :
D&B (NYSE:DNB) is the world’s leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses, enabling companies to Decide with Confidence® for over 165 years. D&B’s global commercial database contains more than 115 million business records. The database is enhanced by D&B’s proprietary DUNSRight® Quality Process, which provides our customers with quality business information. This quality information is the foundation of our global solutions that customers rely on to make critical business decisions.see site at..http://dnb.com/
What's The Purpose Of Venture:
D&B is to provide a more searchable database for business decision makers, going after the intent-driven search model. So with this acquisition, D&B will be integrating AllBusiness’ wealth of information for the purpose of growing its business, offering more tools to business leaders, and making it readily available for research purposes.
More at:http://www.allbusiness.com/
AllBusiness.com is an online media and e-commerce company that operates one of the premier business sites on the Web. AllBusiness.com helps business professionals save time and money by addressing real-world business questions and presenting practical solutions. The site offers resources including how-to articles, business forms, contracts and agreements, expert advice, blogs, business news, business directory listings, product comparisons, business guides, a business association and more.
How it Works:
Business professionals can access AllBusiness.com's content and services through a number of channels, including the AllBusiness.com Web site; RSS feeds and email newsletters; and through its partnerships with leading Web properties. Their content, products and services are featured on a number of sites, including: BusinessWeek, CBSNews, NYTimes, SFGate.com, Washington Post, and Yahoo!. AllBusiness content also appears in the print edition of the San Francisco Chronicle as part of our business advisor program.
About Venture Deal:
AllBusiness.com has been taken on by Dun & Bradstreet for $55 million.The business information company has acquired the online resource for a healthy amount, and has raised its 2008 revenue outlook in order to account for the acquisition. Because no matter which way you slice it, $55 million isn’t a drop in the bucket for too many people or companies. As it currently stands, Dun & Bradstreet has forecast $10 million of incremental revenue for 2008, and the company is looking to 2009 to see an ROI for the purchase of AllBusiness, reports CNN Money.
About D&B :
D&B (NYSE:DNB) is the world’s leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses, enabling companies to Decide with Confidence® for over 165 years. D&B’s global commercial database contains more than 115 million business records. The database is enhanced by D&B’s proprietary DUNSRight® Quality Process, which provides our customers with quality business information. This quality information is the foundation of our global solutions that customers rely on to make critical business decisions.see site at..http://dnb.com/
What's The Purpose Of Venture:
D&B is to provide a more searchable database for business decision makers, going after the intent-driven search model. So with this acquisition, D&B will be integrating AllBusiness’ wealth of information for the purpose of growing its business, offering more tools to business leaders, and making it readily available for research purposes.
More at:http://www.allbusiness.com/
WOT, Web of Trust, is the world’s first online reputation rating community
What Company Is Offering:
WOT, Web of Trust, is the world’s first online reputation rating community. It allows Internet users to assess the trustworthiness of websites. WOT is becoming the collective conscience of the web.
How It Works:
WOT community members exchange knowledge about web sites via a simple user interface. Becoming a member and downloading WOT is free, no registration required. WOT is compatible with Internet Explorer® and Firefox browsers. All members can submit website - ratings but are not obligated to do so. After a year of beta testing the WOT user community has now reputation data on over 16 million sites worldwide, and counting.
How Is It Different:
WOT uses four components to rate reputation - trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy, child safety - and enriches the data it receives from users with information from trusted sources such as listings of phishing sites.
The WOT system processes ratings and produces a reputation rating for each web site. Attempts to manipulate the reputation data are effectively countered using sophisticated algorithms.
Who Is Behind The Company:
Behind the community, there is a team developing the WOT service. Headed by Esa Suurio, Against Intuition Inc. focuses on developing and providing software and services for the WOT community, and promoting the community’s goals. Against Intuition was founded in Finland in 2006 by two visionary postgraduate students, Timo Ala-Kleemola and Sami Tolvanen, who are now engaged in further system development with a group of talented software developers, designers, and database administrators. – It’s no a coincidence that WOT comes from the country that repeatedly has been named one of world’s least corrupt countries.
More at:http://www.mywot.com/
WOT, Web of Trust, is the world’s first online reputation rating community. It allows Internet users to assess the trustworthiness of websites. WOT is becoming the collective conscience of the web.
How It Works:
WOT community members exchange knowledge about web sites via a simple user interface. Becoming a member and downloading WOT is free, no registration required. WOT is compatible with Internet Explorer® and Firefox browsers. All members can submit website - ratings but are not obligated to do so. After a year of beta testing the WOT user community has now reputation data on over 16 million sites worldwide, and counting.
How Is It Different:
WOT uses four components to rate reputation - trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy, child safety - and enriches the data it receives from users with information from trusted sources such as listings of phishing sites.
The WOT system processes ratings and produces a reputation rating for each web site. Attempts to manipulate the reputation data are effectively countered using sophisticated algorithms.
Who Is Behind The Company:
Behind the community, there is a team developing the WOT service. Headed by Esa Suurio, Against Intuition Inc. focuses on developing and providing software and services for the WOT community, and promoting the community’s goals. Against Intuition was founded in Finland in 2006 by two visionary postgraduate students, Timo Ala-Kleemola and Sami Tolvanen, who are now engaged in further system development with a group of talented software developers, designers, and database administrators. – It’s no a coincidence that WOT comes from the country that repeatedly has been named one of world’s least corrupt countries.
More at:http://www.mywot.com/
A pronouncing dictionary with Instant Sound
About Company:
A pronouncing dictionary with Instant Sound. Sounds are fast, clear and completely natural, pre-recorded by native speakers.
Fonetiks was originally conceived in 2000 as a response to new visa restrictions which made it increasingly difficult for some English language learners to come to study English in the USA, Britain and Australia. Fonetiks enabled these language learners to study native speaker pronunciation without leaving their homes, merely by mousing over the text on their computer screens.
The creator is Tim Bowyer, former director of schools in Italy, Indonesia, Australia and Jordan, and a former British Council lecturer, course-writer and polyglot - he speaks six languages.
How It Works:
First, choose the language that you want to study. To study its pronunciation, click on the pages to the right of a flag. We suggest you start with "Single Vowel Sounds". Mouse over each symbol to hear the first example of each sound. Practise it yourself and then try the other examples to the right.
You can use Microsoft Sound Recorder to record your own voice and compare it with the original. To open Sound Recorder, click on "Start" and go to Programs, Accessories, Entertainment, and click on Sound Recorder. You'll need a microphone.
Understanding the symbols: "back" means the tongue is towards the back of the mouth. For example, the tongue is towards the front of the mouth when you say "cat", but towards the back when a British English speaker says "cart". "long" means the sound is roughly double length. "round" means the lips are rounded when the sound is made. For example, you can change "cot" to "caught" in British English by rounding your lips as you say "cot". A symbol in italics means the mouth is more closed than with non-italics. Please note: the symbols are only a guide, not a bible.
You can compare different languages or accents by opening two or more pages at the same time, and arranging them side by side on your computer screen. Now you can mouse over similar words and hear them spoken differently in, for example, American English and British English.
More at:http://www.howjsay.com/
A pronouncing dictionary with Instant Sound. Sounds are fast, clear and completely natural, pre-recorded by native speakers.
Fonetiks was originally conceived in 2000 as a response to new visa restrictions which made it increasingly difficult for some English language learners to come to study English in the USA, Britain and Australia. Fonetiks enabled these language learners to study native speaker pronunciation without leaving their homes, merely by mousing over the text on their computer screens.
The creator is Tim Bowyer, former director of schools in Italy, Indonesia, Australia and Jordan, and a former British Council lecturer, course-writer and polyglot - he speaks six languages.
How It Works:
First, choose the language that you want to study. To study its pronunciation, click on the pages to the right of a flag. We suggest you start with "Single Vowel Sounds". Mouse over each symbol to hear the first example of each sound. Practise it yourself and then try the other examples to the right.
You can use Microsoft Sound Recorder to record your own voice and compare it with the original. To open Sound Recorder, click on "Start" and go to Programs, Accessories, Entertainment, and click on Sound Recorder. You'll need a microphone.
Understanding the symbols: "back" means the tongue is towards the back of the mouth. For example, the tongue is towards the front of the mouth when you say "cat", but towards the back when a British English speaker says "cart". "long" means the sound is roughly double length. "round" means the lips are rounded when the sound is made. For example, you can change "cot" to "caught" in British English by rounding your lips as you say "cot". A symbol in italics means the mouth is more closed than with non-italics. Please note: the symbols are only a guide, not a bible.
You can compare different languages or accents by opening two or more pages at the same time, and arranging them side by side on your computer screen. Now you can mouse over similar words and hear them spoken differently in, for example, American English and British English.
More at:http://www.howjsay.com/
PPCalc is a free online PayPal fee calculator
What Company Is Offering:
PPCalc is a free online PayPal fee calculator. It allows anyone with a PayPal account to quickly and easily determine their PayPal fees before they accept money online. We also allow you to "reverse" calculate your fees to find out what amount a person should send you so that you actually get the amount you want after PayPal fees have been taken out, or what we like to call a Reverse PayPal Calculator.
How It Works:
This website was made because they believe there are many PayPal members worldwide with Premier and/or Business Accounts that would like to know what their fees PayPal fees will be in advance, before they receive money online. Now I know you're probably thinking "...well anyone can do that. PayPal posts their fees openly on their web page. Anyone can just calculate what their fees would be using any handheld calculator." And this is true, they could. And maybe for 1 or 2 items this might not be that bad, but what if you're calculating the fees for 25, 50, or 100 transactions. Do you know how long that would take you just by using a normal handheld calculator? That's one of the reasons why this website was made. Now, all you have to do is type in the amount you're thinking of receiving (say $40), and press ONE button and all your fees are instantly calculated and displayed to you. It will tell you what your PayPal have come out to be (for example, $1.46) and it will also tell you what you will have left over after PayPal fees have been subtracted (for example, $38.54) saving you yet another set of steps you would have to do on a normal calculator. And even if you don't use the normal 2.9% + $0.30 fee rate, that's ok, this calculator can still work for you. All you have to do is select whatever fee rate your account does use (in the Options Box), then enter in the amount you expect to receive and press Calculate. You don't even have to wait for the page to reload, the fee change happens instantly. Not only can you choose your fee rate, but you can also choose your origin and destination countries and this calculator will automatically fill in the correct fee structure for you.
More at:http://www.ppcalc.com/
PPCalc is a free online PayPal fee calculator. It allows anyone with a PayPal account to quickly and easily determine their PayPal fees before they accept money online. We also allow you to "reverse" calculate your fees to find out what amount a person should send you so that you actually get the amount you want after PayPal fees have been taken out, or what we like to call a Reverse PayPal Calculator.
How It Works:
This website was made because they believe there are many PayPal members worldwide with Premier and/or Business Accounts that would like to know what their fees PayPal fees will be in advance, before they receive money online. Now I know you're probably thinking "...well anyone can do that. PayPal posts their fees openly on their web page. Anyone can just calculate what their fees would be using any handheld calculator." And this is true, they could. And maybe for 1 or 2 items this might not be that bad, but what if you're calculating the fees for 25, 50, or 100 transactions. Do you know how long that would take you just by using a normal handheld calculator? That's one of the reasons why this website was made. Now, all you have to do is type in the amount you're thinking of receiving (say $40), and press ONE button and all your fees are instantly calculated and displayed to you. It will tell you what your PayPal have come out to be (for example, $1.46) and it will also tell you what you will have left over after PayPal fees have been subtracted (for example, $38.54) saving you yet another set of steps you would have to do on a normal calculator. And even if you don't use the normal 2.9% + $0.30 fee rate, that's ok, this calculator can still work for you. All you have to do is select whatever fee rate your account does use (in the Options Box), then enter in the amount you expect to receive and press Calculate. You don't even have to wait for the page to reload, the fee change happens instantly. Not only can you choose your fee rate, but you can also choose your origin and destination countries and this calculator will automatically fill in the correct fee structure for you.
More at:http://www.ppcalc.com/
BeCheeky.com has raised Gbp630,000 in seed funding from South West Venture Fund
What Company Is Offering:
BeCheeky.com was founded by husband and wife team James and Sarah Akin-Smith to take advantage of the growing demand for high quality sensual women's lingerie. It currently offers over 1,200 individual lines from brands such as Bracli, Lola Luna, Morgan, Princess Tam Tam and Sensualle, and attracts 130,000 individual visitors per month. In addition, it sources innovative lingerie and swimwear from suppliers around the world. The company has a turnover of nearly 1 million.
What's Market Of That Product:
The U.K. lingerie market has achieved growth of 27% over the last five years and is now worth over ?1.5 billion per annum. Online sales are growing steadily, driven by easy access to broadband and increasing levels of consumer confidence in online security. According to Verdict Research, the leading authority on U.K. and European retail markets, online shopping is growing 13 times faster than traditional retailing, with the market being valued at ?11 billion in 2006 and forecast to reach ?28 billion by 2011.
How Much They Got From VCs:
BeCheeky.com, a UK-based online retailer of hard-to-find and mainstream lingerie, has raised Gbp630,000 in seed funding from South West Venture Fund (managed by YFM Group) and individual angels.
About VCs:
YFM Group ? is the UK's most active investor in the small and medium enterprise marketplace. YFM Group manages in excess of ?300 million of funds with investment sizes ranging from ?50,000 to ?5 million. Principal offices are located in Leeds, Manchester, London and Bristol with over 45 investment professionals being employed across the UK.
The YFM Group managed South West Ventures Fund is a ?25M fund that has been set up to provide venture capital to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) based in the South West of England. Initial investment can be up to ?330,000 with an ability to invest a further ?330,000 after six months. In certain circumstances, alongside other new investors, the Fund can follow on its investments to provide a total of ?2.5 million to one company. To date the fund has invested ?7.1m in 25 companies.
South West Ventures Fund is managed by YFM Venture Finance Limited part of the YFM Group. YFM Venture Finance Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
More at:www.BeCheeky.com
BeCheeky.com was founded by husband and wife team James and Sarah Akin-Smith to take advantage of the growing demand for high quality sensual women's lingerie. It currently offers over 1,200 individual lines from brands such as Bracli, Lola Luna, Morgan, Princess Tam Tam and Sensualle, and attracts 130,000 individual visitors per month. In addition, it sources innovative lingerie and swimwear from suppliers around the world. The company has a turnover of nearly 1 million.
What's Market Of That Product:
The U.K. lingerie market has achieved growth of 27% over the last five years and is now worth over ?1.5 billion per annum. Online sales are growing steadily, driven by easy access to broadband and increasing levels of consumer confidence in online security. According to Verdict Research, the leading authority on U.K. and European retail markets, online shopping is growing 13 times faster than traditional retailing, with the market being valued at ?11 billion in 2006 and forecast to reach ?28 billion by 2011.
How Much They Got From VCs:
BeCheeky.com, a UK-based online retailer of hard-to-find and mainstream lingerie, has raised Gbp630,000 in seed funding from South West Venture Fund (managed by YFM Group) and individual angels.
About VCs:
YFM Group ? is the UK's most active investor in the small and medium enterprise marketplace. YFM Group manages in excess of ?300 million of funds with investment sizes ranging from ?50,000 to ?5 million. Principal offices are located in Leeds, Manchester, London and Bristol with over 45 investment professionals being employed across the UK.
The YFM Group managed South West Ventures Fund is a ?25M fund that has been set up to provide venture capital to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) based in the South West of England. Initial investment can be up to ?330,000 with an ability to invest a further ?330,000 after six months. In certain circumstances, alongside other new investors, the Fund can follow on its investments to provide a total of ?2.5 million to one company. To date the fund has invested ?7.1m in 25 companies.
South West Ventures Fund is managed by YFM Venture Finance Limited part of the YFM Group. YFM Venture Finance Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
More at:www.BeCheeky.com
Pyxis Mobile is the leading provider of innovative wireless software that meets the diverse needs of the financial services , has raised $1.95m
What Company Is Offering:
Pyxis Mobile is the leading provider of innovative wireless software that meets the diverse needs of the financial services industry. Pyxis Mobile mPlatform® solutions are used by mobile financial professionals to extend critical business data from internal enterprise systems to the mobile device of their choice.
Pyxis Mobile is a privately held corporation based in Waltham, Massachusetts. Pyxis Mobile was incorporated in with a focus on providing system integration and solutions for the financial services industry. Today, they are focused on building wireless software products that are solely focused on the investment industry.
Its Products:
1.mWholesalerTM is the leading wireless application for investment wholesalers. mWholesaler provides the tools needed to maximize productivity and sales effectiveness in the field via a wireless device.
2.mPortfolioTM is a wireless financial application for portfolio managers, analysts, traders, and compliance officers. Using the wireless device of your choice, access all the necessary reports and market data to effectively manage portfolios, orders, and compliance violations from any location.
3.mAnalystTM is a wireless financial application for buy-side analysts and research associates. Using the wireless device of your choice, access all the necessary reports and market data to effectively manage your internal research, industry news, and market data from any location.
4.mInstitutionalTM is the leading wireless application enabling institutional and group sales representatives to develop and track deals, close opportunities, maximize productivity, and increase assets under management.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Pyxis Mobile Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based maker of wireless applications for the financial services market, has raised $1.95 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Backers include Ascent Venture Partners and Egan-Managed Capital.
More at:http://www.pyxismobile.com/
Pyxis Mobile is the leading provider of innovative wireless software that meets the diverse needs of the financial services industry. Pyxis Mobile mPlatform® solutions are used by mobile financial professionals to extend critical business data from internal enterprise systems to the mobile device of their choice.
Pyxis Mobile is a privately held corporation based in Waltham, Massachusetts. Pyxis Mobile was incorporated in with a focus on providing system integration and solutions for the financial services industry. Today, they are focused on building wireless software products that are solely focused on the investment industry.
Its Products:
1.mWholesalerTM is the leading wireless application for investment wholesalers. mWholesaler provides the tools needed to maximize productivity and sales effectiveness in the field via a wireless device.
2.mPortfolioTM is a wireless financial application for portfolio managers, analysts, traders, and compliance officers. Using the wireless device of your choice, access all the necessary reports and market data to effectively manage portfolios, orders, and compliance violations from any location.
3.mAnalystTM is a wireless financial application for buy-side analysts and research associates. Using the wireless device of your choice, access all the necessary reports and market data to effectively manage your internal research, industry news, and market data from any location.
4.mInstitutionalTM is the leading wireless application enabling institutional and group sales representatives to develop and track deals, close opportunities, maximize productivity, and increase assets under management.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Pyxis Mobile Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based maker of wireless applications for the financial services market, has raised $1.95 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Backers include Ascent Venture Partners and Egan-Managed Capital.
More at:http://www.pyxismobile.com/
MyStrands develops technologies to better understand people's taste and help them discover things they like and didn't know about, has raised $24 m
What Company Is Offering:
MyStrands develops technologies to better understand people's taste and help them discover things they like and didn't know about. MyStrands has created a social recommender engine that is able to provide real-time recommendations of products and services through computers, mobile phones and other Internet-connected devices.
They believe the future of the web is about personalization. Personalized TV stations, personalized news, personalized advertising, personalized shopping experiences, personalized music, no matter where you are or what you are doing. Social recommendation technologies allow MyStrands to build a number of engaging products for the end user, and to help different industries deliver personalized content, products, services and ads to their consumers. We have a strong focus on the mobile world.User to user recommendations and social recommendations will become the most effective online discovery and promotion vehicle for content, products and services in this era of increased availability of digital content and information about people's preferences.
How It Works:
MyStrands technology is based on human-generated links between items (songs, videos, products, etc) much the way Google uses human-generated links between web-pages. Complex networks of human-generated links between items are the best mechanisms to analyze how our society considers and uses the products it creates and consumes. Although the basic principles used to construct the networks are simple to understand, the sheer amount of data makes the networks themselves huge. These networks, which are the foundation of the MyStrands recommendation engine, provide great flexibility and power.
A critical focus of our recommendation technologies concentrates on organizing observations from people's behaviors and distilling that information in a way that can be leveraged into a useful purpose, representing knowledge of behavior as data and making it possible for electronic devices (computers, mobile phones and other Internet-connected devices) to access that knowledge.
When it comes to delivering personalized recommendations to individuals or groups, MyStrands' recommender engine considers that taste is context-sensitive and evolves over time. MyStrands provides real-time recommendations from the first user interaction without the need to ask the user to rate content or build a profile. Our technology can deliver relevant suggestions to first-time anonymous users as well as providing filtered, personalized results based on individual profiles.
How Much They Got From VCs:
MyStrands, a Corvallis, Ore.?based developer of a personalized discovery platform and social recommender engine, has raised $24 million in Series B-2 funding. Spanish bank BBVA led the round, and was joined by return backer Debaeque. The company has now raised a total of $55 million. www.mystrands.com
More at:http://www.mystrands.com/
MyStrands develops technologies to better understand people's taste and help them discover things they like and didn't know about. MyStrands has created a social recommender engine that is able to provide real-time recommendations of products and services through computers, mobile phones and other Internet-connected devices.
They believe the future of the web is about personalization. Personalized TV stations, personalized news, personalized advertising, personalized shopping experiences, personalized music, no matter where you are or what you are doing. Social recommendation technologies allow MyStrands to build a number of engaging products for the end user, and to help different industries deliver personalized content, products, services and ads to their consumers. We have a strong focus on the mobile world.User to user recommendations and social recommendations will become the most effective online discovery and promotion vehicle for content, products and services in this era of increased availability of digital content and information about people's preferences.
How It Works:
MyStrands technology is based on human-generated links between items (songs, videos, products, etc) much the way Google uses human-generated links between web-pages. Complex networks of human-generated links between items are the best mechanisms to analyze how our society considers and uses the products it creates and consumes. Although the basic principles used to construct the networks are simple to understand, the sheer amount of data makes the networks themselves huge. These networks, which are the foundation of the MyStrands recommendation engine, provide great flexibility and power.
A critical focus of our recommendation technologies concentrates on organizing observations from people's behaviors and distilling that information in a way that can be leveraged into a useful purpose, representing knowledge of behavior as data and making it possible for electronic devices (computers, mobile phones and other Internet-connected devices) to access that knowledge.
When it comes to delivering personalized recommendations to individuals or groups, MyStrands' recommender engine considers that taste is context-sensitive and evolves over time. MyStrands provides real-time recommendations from the first user interaction without the need to ask the user to rate content or build a profile. Our technology can deliver relevant suggestions to first-time anonymous users as well as providing filtered, personalized results based on individual profiles.
How Much They Got From VCs:
MyStrands, a Corvallis, Ore.?based developer of a personalized discovery platform and social recommender engine, has raised $24 million in Series B-2 funding. Spanish bank BBVA led the round, and was joined by return backer Debaeque. The company has now raised a total of $55 million. www.mystrands.com
More at:http://www.mystrands.com/
Apnaloan.com, an online marketplace for personal financeto raise up to $15 million
Apnaloan.com, an online marketplace for personal finance, is in talks with venture capital funds Chrys Capital, Intel Capital and Sequoia to raise up to $15 million, a source close to the deal said. For Sequoia, this would be the second investment in the company, after the first tranche of $2.2 million earlier this year.
Apnaloan plans to use fresh funds in technology innovation and marketing. Now re-christened ALC India from the previous Apnaloan.com India, the company seeks to provide an easier and customised means of raising loans and buying credit cards.
For lenders such as State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and Standard Chartered Bank, it helps cut down transaction costs and widen the reach. The company now plans to deal in insurance products and is in advanced talks with Tata AIG and ICICI PruLife for partnership.
Apnaloan founder and chief executive officer Harsh Roongta said he hopes to launch insurance-related services by the end of January. “We would look to provide services in health, auto, travel and life insurance,” he added.
Via-The Econamic Times
Apnaloan plans to use fresh funds in technology innovation and marketing. Now re-christened ALC India from the previous Apnaloan.com India, the company seeks to provide an easier and customised means of raising loans and buying credit cards.
For lenders such as State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and Standard Chartered Bank, it helps cut down transaction costs and widen the reach. The company now plans to deal in insurance products and is in advanced talks with Tata AIG and ICICI PruLife for partnership.
Apnaloan founder and chief executive officer Harsh Roongta said he hopes to launch insurance-related services by the end of January. “We would look to provide services in health, auto, travel and life insurance,” he added.
Via-The Econamic Times
Knocka TV is the professional internet television network for user generated content
What Company is Offering:
Knocka TV offers a stage for creative content produced by the community, supporting individual producers and small production houses in their original creation.Knocka TV is the professional internet television network for user generated content, creating and enabling a new breed of Wiki TV channels and real time activities. Each channel at Knocka offers content generated by independent user-producers that is packaged professionally and streamed via simultaneous, linear netcast over internet network, giving the Knocka TV viewing experience the “look and feel” of broadcast TV.
How It Works:
Upload your videos and be part of creating Knocka TV.
Knocka TV is a User Generated Professional Television Network (or in short UGPTN). It’s a democratic, interactive, and collaborative social television:
Democratic: By casting your votes, you choose what’s on.
Interactive: Live broadcasting on the internet will allow you to participate and at real-time affect the course of the program. Participate in live interactive shows, go live with your webcam, manipulate the program content in real time together with other viewers and much more.
Collaborative: Everyone can participate in creating Knocka TV, from creating channels and programs to cooperating together in creating content.
Social: While you watch Knocka TV you can chat, video conference and talk to your friends.
More at:http://www.knocka.tv/
Knocka TV offers a stage for creative content produced by the community, supporting individual producers and small production houses in their original creation.Knocka TV is the professional internet television network for user generated content, creating and enabling a new breed of Wiki TV channels and real time activities. Each channel at Knocka offers content generated by independent user-producers that is packaged professionally and streamed via simultaneous, linear netcast over internet network, giving the Knocka TV viewing experience the “look and feel” of broadcast TV.
How It Works:
Upload your videos and be part of creating Knocka TV.
Knocka TV is a User Generated Professional Television Network (or in short UGPTN). It’s a democratic, interactive, and collaborative social television:
Democratic: By casting your votes, you choose what’s on.
Interactive: Live broadcasting on the internet will allow you to participate and at real-time affect the course of the program. Participate in live interactive shows, go live with your webcam, manipulate the program content in real time together with other viewers and much more.
Collaborative: Everyone can participate in creating Knocka TV, from creating channels and programs to cooperating together in creating content.
Social: While you watch Knocka TV you can chat, video conference and talk to your friends.
More at:http://www.knocka.tv/
Driftr is a user-generated content site for travelers, by travelers
What company Is Offering:
Driftr is a user-generated content site for travelers, by travelers. At Driftr, YOU are the travel writer, the photographer, and the reviewer. All of your travel experiences and the information you provide become part of the shared Driftr community.
The result is a great big worldwide social network full of fascinating and useful information. Everything from how to find the best schnitzel in Prague, to a good place to sing karaoke in Ghana…it's all here. And it all begins and ends with you.
How it Works:
Keep track of your travels, share your trip photos, reviews, and blogs with friends and family, as well as research destinations before you book a trip.
More at:http://www.driftr.com/
Driftr is a user-generated content site for travelers, by travelers. At Driftr, YOU are the travel writer, the photographer, and the reviewer. All of your travel experiences and the information you provide become part of the shared Driftr community.
The result is a great big worldwide social network full of fascinating and useful information. Everything from how to find the best schnitzel in Prague, to a good place to sing karaoke in Ghana…it's all here. And it all begins and ends with you.
How it Works:
Keep track of your travels, share your trip photos, reviews, and blogs with friends and family, as well as research destinations before you book a trip.
More at:http://www.driftr.com/
Say Goodbye To Passwords And Use "Vidoop "
What Company Is Offering:
Vidoop Secure is an innovative new login technology that eliminates passwords and is effective against prevalent forms of hacking, without any additional hardware requirement.
Vidoop Secure achieves this with a two-factor system including both a “soft token” (What you have) and the Vidoop image grid, which uses your secret image categories (What you know) to draw your eye to a one-time random access code.
With myVidoop, , your identity is secure.
With unrivaled security, customization, and browser integration features, myVidoop is leading the way into the new world of online identity. myVidoop not only provides web single sign-on using the OpenID protocol but can also manage your identities all across the web, even at sites that don't support single sign-on.
How It Works:
Vidoop Secure is a software-only, multi-factor user login technology based on categorized images. When a user enrolls, he chooses image categories from a bank of possible image content (such as airplanes, cars, or keys). This constitutes the shared secret. Then, upon proof of receipt of an access code transmitted out-of-band by e-mail or phone, the user's computer is activated with a software token.
At the time of login, if the token is found, the Vidoop Dynamic Image Grid, which includes pictures belonging to the user's chosen categories, is displayed. The user selects the images by typing the random letter shown with the image, forming a one-time access code.
The Vidoop Secure system can withhold the image grid after a configurable number of failed logins.
More at:http://www.vidoop.com/
Vidoop Secure is an innovative new login technology that eliminates passwords and is effective against prevalent forms of hacking, without any additional hardware requirement.
Vidoop Secure achieves this with a two-factor system including both a “soft token” (What you have) and the Vidoop image grid, which uses your secret image categories (What you know) to draw your eye to a one-time random access code.
With myVidoop, , your identity is secure.
With unrivaled security, customization, and browser integration features, myVidoop is leading the way into the new world of online identity. myVidoop not only provides web single sign-on using the OpenID protocol but can also manage your identities all across the web, even at sites that don't support single sign-on.
How It Works:
Vidoop Secure is a software-only, multi-factor user login technology based on categorized images. When a user enrolls, he chooses image categories from a bank of possible image content (such as airplanes, cars, or keys). This constitutes the shared secret. Then, upon proof of receipt of an access code transmitted out-of-band by e-mail or phone, the user's computer is activated with a software token.
At the time of login, if the token is found, the Vidoop Dynamic Image Grid, which includes pictures belonging to the user's chosen categories, is displayed. The user selects the images by typing the random letter shown with the image, forming a one-time access code.
The Vidoop Secure system can withhold the image grid after a configurable number of failed logins.
More at:http://www.vidoop.com/
Fluc.com----Monetize Your Mobile
What Company Is Offering:
Fluc allows you to earn money on your mobile from content relevant to you, your location and your friends.
It’s simple, easy and free to join. You can create and build a network of friends, colleagues or associates anywhere around the world. And better yet, publishers can also build networks and advertise their businesses, websites and wapsites to earn additional income from their online and/or offline operations.
How It Works:
Fluc allows you to deliver your message to thousands of relevant mobile users.
You can create & target your content, set your budget and then send your message in seconds. Additionally, their patent-pending technology also allows you to target networks of their publisher businesses & websites specifically to allow you to send brand focused messages to them from anywhere in the world. Fluc allows you to pay as much you want to reach your target audience. They will only deliver your message once to each unique registered mobile user, and your account is only charged when your message is delivered.
They provide daily tracking to allow you to monitor how many ads have been sent, and to what regions.
The average cost of a Fluc message is dependent on their auction based pricing algorithm.
How Is It Different:
Fluc allows you to target people who want to hear your message. It’s relevant exposure and it's highly effective for your brand.
If you sell flowers, you don’t want to advertise to people who are interested in bikes. Fluc allows you to target people that are interested in what you have to sell & lets them know what your brand is about.
More at:https://www.fluc.com/
Fluc allows you to earn money on your mobile from content relevant to you, your location and your friends.
It’s simple, easy and free to join. You can create and build a network of friends, colleagues or associates anywhere around the world. And better yet, publishers can also build networks and advertise their businesses, websites and wapsites to earn additional income from their online and/or offline operations.
How It Works:
Fluc allows you to deliver your message to thousands of relevant mobile users.
You can create & target your content, set your budget and then send your message in seconds. Additionally, their patent-pending technology also allows you to target networks of their publisher businesses & websites specifically to allow you to send brand focused messages to them from anywhere in the world. Fluc allows you to pay as much you want to reach your target audience. They will only deliver your message once to each unique registered mobile user, and your account is only charged when your message is delivered.
They provide daily tracking to allow you to monitor how many ads have been sent, and to what regions.
The average cost of a Fluc message is dependent on their auction based pricing algorithm.
How Is It Different:
Fluc allows you to target people who want to hear your message. It’s relevant exposure and it's highly effective for your brand.
If you sell flowers, you don’t want to advertise to people who are interested in bikes. Fluc allows you to target people that are interested in what you have to sell & lets them know what your brand is about.
More at:https://www.fluc.com/
Nabbr---The Widget Promotion Network---Get Millions Of Gen-Y See Your Content
What Company Is Offering:
They've got the reach to deliver your music videos, movie & video game trailers, TV shows and promotional content. Connected to 25 million Gen-Y users, they play where they do, on the social web. And, the Nabbr network consists of the most highly trafficked social sites today.
A snap to embed, your premium content is smack dab on the personal pages of this (until now) hard-to-reach, free spending market.
How It Works:
Stay Connected to Fans
Once fans embed your widget, you can learn who they are and keep them engaged. With our permission-based marketing platform, you can dynamically message fans, and add new content on the fly. Include teasers, trailers, direct messaging, and short form content to create a dialogue between you and your market.
Set the Web on Fire
Use widget-based interactive contests and promotions to set the web on fire. Our clients have won MTV Viewer's Choice Awards and several Yahoo Who's Next Awards and the buzz we've created has also helped several artists debut at #1 on iTunes Charts.
Get a Competitive Edge
Optimize your marketing with invaluable market intelligence. Know exactly where your campaign is taking off, and who's reacting - all in real-time. Our 'big seed marketing' approach integrates the velocity of viral with the metrics of traditional marketing.
Raise the Roof on Revenues
Unique viewers are the raw materials of monetization, and Nabbr's got millions of them. Boost revenues by driving thousands of consumers to the point of purchase for downloads, merchandise, ring tones, tickets, events, and more.
More at:http://www.nabbr.com/
They've got the reach to deliver your music videos, movie & video game trailers, TV shows and promotional content. Connected to 25 million Gen-Y users, they play where they do, on the social web. And, the Nabbr network consists of the most highly trafficked social sites today.
A snap to embed, your premium content is smack dab on the personal pages of this (until now) hard-to-reach, free spending market.
How It Works:
Stay Connected to Fans
Once fans embed your widget, you can learn who they are and keep them engaged. With our permission-based marketing platform, you can dynamically message fans, and add new content on the fly. Include teasers, trailers, direct messaging, and short form content to create a dialogue between you and your market.
Set the Web on Fire
Use widget-based interactive contests and promotions to set the web on fire. Our clients have won MTV Viewer's Choice Awards and several Yahoo Who's Next Awards and the buzz we've created has also helped several artists debut at #1 on iTunes Charts.
Get a Competitive Edge
Optimize your marketing with invaluable market intelligence. Know exactly where your campaign is taking off, and who's reacting - all in real-time. Our 'big seed marketing' approach integrates the velocity of viral with the metrics of traditional marketing.
Raise the Roof on Revenues
Unique viewers are the raw materials of monetization, and Nabbr's got millions of them. Boost revenues by driving thousands of consumers to the point of purchase for downloads, merchandise, ring tones, tickets, events, and more.
More at:http://www.nabbr.com/
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