RSS Etc.

Demand Media Buying Pluck, For About $67 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 04 Mar 2008 12:35 PM PST

As we had reported first in January, online publishing tools company Pluck was close to being bought out and now the company is making it official later today: it is…

Email Marketer Blue Sky Factory Buys Blogarithm - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 19 Dec 2007 12:03 PM PST

Blue Sky Factory, a provider of email marketing solutions, has acquired Blogarithm, a service that sends email alerts whenever a selected blog or website has been updated. Blogarithm claims to…

RSS Feed Provider Newsgator Secures $12 Million Fifth Round Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 13 Dec 2007 11:45 AM PST

Newsgator, the RSS feed aggregator, has raised $12 million in a fifth round funding, PEHub reports. The round was led by Vista Ventures, with previous investors Mobius Venture Capital and…

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Twitter’s Summer Funding: $4.8 Million of a $5.4 Million Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 10 Dec 2007 01:18 PM PST

Twitter’s funding round from this summer, which we reported on sans amount, netted the company $4.8 million, according to a regulatory filing obtained by PE Hub. The round, which came…

Skinkers Gets $16 Million To Accelerate LiveStation P2P TV Launch - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 29 Oct 2007 08:53 AM PST

From paidContent:UK: Skinkers, the UK-based company which makes branded desktop news readers for syndicated content and has a P2P TV offering, has received $16 million in second-round funding from Acacia…

Personalized News Service DailyMe Raises First Round From PE Firm Palladium Equity - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 25 Oct 2007 08:58 AM PST

DailyMe, a personalized news aggregator based in Hollywood, FL, has received funding from private equity firm Palladium Equity Partners. Also participating were individual investors Miles Gilburne and Jose Luis Suares,…

Benchmark-Incubated Social Networking Service FriendFeed Launches - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 01 Oct 2007 01:54 PM PST

The New York Times has a profile of FriendFeed, a new startup made up of high level ex-Google (NSDQ: GOOG)rs, which offers something akin to a Facebook news feed spanning…

It’s Official: Google Acquires FeedBurner - 11 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 01 Jun 2007 12:38 PM PST

Another open secret becomes official ... Google has acquired RSS distributor FeedBurner and its FeedBurner Ad Network, filling a significant gap in its own advertising offerings. No terms are being…

Feedburner-Google Deal In Final Stages, Possible $100 Million Value: Reports - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 23 May 2007 03:12 PM PST

Lots of chatter over the past few days about a possible acquisition of Feedburner by Google, starting with a “rumor” from Sam Sethi at Vecosys based on a “very trusted…

NBCU Acquires RSS Email Start-Up Rmail - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 26 Apr 2007 12:28 AM PST

This just in ... a smallish but interesting acquisition by NBCU, the new owner of Rmail. Randy Charles Morin, founder of the RSS email start-up, announced the sale late night…

New Adobe Media Player Would Enable Offline Ad-Supported Video - 4 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 15 Apr 2007 07:32 PM PST

Adobe launches its bid for desktop video real estate in Las Vegas Monday at NAB: Adobe Media Player, a free standalone player designed to work online and offline with heavy…

Yahoo Builds ‘Brickhouse’ To Encourage Start-Ups From Within - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 09 Feb 2007 08:06 AM PST

Yahoo is trying to get back in touch with its “inner start-up,” BusinessWeek says, by targeting business development from within. The name for this effort is Brickhouse, a new unit…

UK Desktop & RSS Apps Firm Skinkers Gets $4 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 29 Jan 2007 02:25 PM PST

Skinkers, the UK-based providers of branded RSS/desktop applications, has raised about $4 million more in funding. The new round was led by in majority (about $3.4 million) by previous investors…

NYT Adds Easy Sharing To Free Pages; Digg, Facebook, Newsvine - 5 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 11 Dec 2006 05:54 PM PST

From the overeaction to what is just a nifty tool addition, you’d have thought Moses popped down from Sinai and offered to share new commandments. As is the case at…

Yahoo-Newspapers: More Details: Search, Local Listings Included; Co-Branded Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 20 Nov 2006 06:28 AM PST

Some more details about thre Yahoo-newspaper deal we’ve been writing about for the last couple of days. In addition to HotJobs, the other features iof the agreement with a seven-newspaper…

More on Reuters’ Funding of Pluck - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 13 Nov 2006 09:41 PM PST

We mentioned briefly yesterday about Reuters funding of RSS tech and syndication firm Pluck..turns out, according to FT, that Reuters was the one who contributed the whole $7 million funding...it…

Pluck Raises $7 Million in Funding From Reuters, Others - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Nov 2006 02:55 PM PST

This is Reuters’ first digital media investment in a while that I know of: Pluck, an RSS vendor and publisher services company (which recently closed down its public RSS reader…

Content Widgets Syndication Firm Clearspring Gets $2 Million Funding - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 06 Nov 2006 10:19 PM PST

Clearspring Technologies, an Arlington, VA-based provider of content widget tools and syndication services, has received about $2 million in venture investment from Novak Biddle Venture Partners and a limited group…

FIM Labs Launches SpringWidgets, First API; Focus On Content - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 05 Nov 2006 07:00 PM PST

Fox Interactive Media joins the widget age with the launch of SpringWidgets from FIM Labs. The emphasis is on dynamic content: a gaming-focused RSS reader from IGN.com, a personalized scoreboard…

RSS-Based Biz Info Firm KnowNow Gets $13 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 05 Nov 2006 12:46 PM PST

KnowNow, a Sunyvale, CA-based online information and alerting firm, has received $13 million in venture funding. The round was led by RSS Investors, the investment fund focused on RSS technologies.…

News Start-up Daylife Raises First Round; NYTCO Leads Investors - 3 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 01 Nov 2006 01:15 AM PST

You’re reading it here first ... After a year of mostly veiled references and speculation fueled by the involvement of Jeff Jarvis as an adviser and Craig Newmark as an…

Web 2.0 Deadpool: Odeo Podcast Service Bought Back; Pluck RSS Reader Closing - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 29 Oct 2006 01:06 PM PST

No, this is no f****dcompany style decimation, but some things are becoming clear: hype is still hype, whether Web 1.0 or Web 2.0 style. Only this time you can write…

More Facebook Changes On Way; Will Be Wide Open—Soon - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 11 Sep 2006 03:11 PM PST

The next major strategic move for Facebook—throwing the gates open wide—is being postponed at least a week while the staff and community recover from the feed fracas ... That’s right:…

Facebook Responds To Protests Over New Features With Possible Solution - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 07 Sep 2006 09:11 PM PST

After two days of intense negative reaction by many subscribers, Facebook told the WSJ it will allow users more control over what kind of information will be shared via its…

Six Apart Acquires Rojo Networks, Acq-Hires Co-Founder; Will Spin Off Newsreader - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 06 Sep 2006 11:11 AM PST

Blogging software and services company Six Apart has acquired RSS newsreader Rojo Networks; no terms disclosed. At the same time, in a switch from the acq-hires we’ve seen lately that…