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- Telegraph launches finance tool with Wesabe
- UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph is launching a personal finance tool on its website through a partnership with money management start-up Wesabe. The Telegraph Personal Finance Planner allows users to manage their finances in one place where they can see...
- Articles 2008-11-12
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- Clickable Completes Series A Funding Totaling $6 Million
- Innovative Online Advertising Start-up Attracts Investment from Pequot Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Peter Thiel and Jonathan Miller NEW YORK -- Clickable (www.Clickable.com), the first Web service to make creating and managing online advertising simple and effective, today announced the completion of its Series A round of investment, led by...
- Research articles 2007-12-03
- NBC/Outside.in Launch Hyper-Local News Model
- Welcome to the future. Fire up your browser, and go to this part of NBC New York's website. Do you see that window at the left labeled "Local Hot Spots?" Please click on one of the circles. I clicked on Houston Street, and it yielded 120 blog...
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- Filene's fancies comeback; Discounter spiffs up image in Union Sq., with more in store.(News)(Filene's Basement Corp.)
- Byline: elisabeth butler Filene's Basement may be one of Boston's biggest tourist draws, but its parent company is using New York to show off the most upscale version of the venerable discount clothing store. The spiffy new 90,000-square-foot bargain emporium at 4...
- Research articles 2004-11-08
- Zynga Completes $29 Million Financing, Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and IVP
- Bing Gordon, KPCB Partner and EA Founder, Joins Board Company Acquires YoVille - Largest Virtual World Game on Social Networks SAN FRANCISCO -- Zynga, the largest social gaming service, announced today that it has completed a new round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers along...
- Research articles 2008-07-23
- Zynga's Gaming Gamble
- In late September a sizzling San Francisco Web gaming company called Zynga took the cloak off its latest creation: an online game that lets people open virtual restaurants on their Facebook pages. Competitors vie for points by tending to pseudo-stoves and cranking out orders of cheeseburgers and chunky fruit salads...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Business Plan Required? Twitter Attracts Funding by Posting Drivel for Free
- Twitter.com, the site that lets users answer the question "What are you up to?," recently announced that it had received an undisclosed amount of investment from Union Square Ventures. The site has also received funding from other investors such as Marc Andreesen. A internet start-up attracting investors...
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- The New York Times Company Acquires Interest in Indeed, Inc
- NEW YORK -- The New York Times Company announced today an investment in Indeed, Inc. (www.indeed.com), a search engine for jobs that enables job seekers to search millions of job listings from over a thousand Web sites. The Times Company, Union Square Ventures and Allen & Company, LLC are together...
- Research articles 2005-08-08
- Give VCs a Break: Sequoia, Others Providing Good Advice
- Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures noted on his blog that there is suspicion about the motives of Sequoia Capital, Ron Conway, Benchmark Capital, and others [UPDATE: including Foundation Capital] who have been warning investors to cut spending and prepare for a very rough period. But I've got to agree...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Time for Twitter (and Others) to Face Business Reality
- Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures got tired of hearing reporters ask when Twitter would have a real business model. He snapped, “It’s like the stupidest question in the world: How’s Twitter going to make money? It’s like 'How was Google going to make money?'" Although quickly wishing he could...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Media Browser Boxee Gets $4 Million Funding
- Digital media browser software firm Boxee has received $4 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. The open-source browser is a desktop app which scans and brings all kinds of multimedia from a user's computer/laptop into the application,...
- External links 2008-11-18
- Analog Dollars, Digital Pennies, and an Embarrassment of Video Riches
- Fred Wilson of Union Square ventures had an interesting post titled Trading Analog Dollars For Digital Pennies. He quoted Jeff Zucker, NBC Universal CEO, expressing concern "that we do not end up trading analog dollars for digital pennies." Wilson writes that the change is inevitable and based on marginal costs...
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million Second Round; Staffs Up, Preps Premium Model
- If blogs are over, tumblelogs never even got going. But that isn't stopping Tumblr, short-form scrapbook blogging's biggest exponent, from raising a $4.5 million second VC round. Beefing up, the outfit is adding former Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) technology SVP John Borthwick to its board and former CNET director...
- External links 2008-12-11
- Media Roundup: Cuts at NPR, People.com Thriving, and More
- NPR announces cuts -- National Public Radio will cut 64 employees, or seven percent of its work force. Many of those cut will come from cancelled shows Day to Day and News and Notes. NPR also noted that corporate sponsorships are also down, thus increasing the company's projected operating deficit...
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Twitter Transforms Into Sites That Aggregate Around Vertical Tweets
- It's time to face facts that Twitter is, always has been, and always will be about vertical categories. Even as most of us who are on Twitter self-aggregate by choosing who we want to follow at twitter.com, an increasing number of ad-supported sites are popping up that aggregate tweets around...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Fred Wilson on 'The New York Times': Shut Down Business, Sports and Your Printing Press
- My former Adweek colleague Brian Morrissey helpfully did a post earlier this week outlining Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson's Rx for The New York Times: to shut down all non-core competencies, such as coverage of sports and business; and to stop printing the newspaper entirely, partly as a cost-cutting measure...
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Boxee Adds $6 Million Second Round; Aims To Take On Microsoft, Apple In Living Room
- Browser-based streaming media service Boxee has raised $6 million in a second round of funding. General Catalyst Partners led the round—managing director Neil Sequeira is joining the board—with previous backers Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital also participating. Boxee has raised $10 million in funding since its soft launch...
- External links 2009-08-12
- paidContent Quick Hits: 10.16.09
- » A profile of Hulu that looks at whether it can save traditional TV. [Fast Company]» Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson says the idea that VCs “need to own” 20% to 30% of a company they’re funding is “baloney.” [A VC]» Australian Broadcasting Company’s managing director Mark Scott takes...
- External links 2009-10-16
- paidContent Quick Hits 10.28.09
- » Apple’s ad budget is half-a-billion dollars. [Brainstorm Tech]» Young entrepreneurs are just fine, but Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson likes it when the “serial entrepreneurs” can use their experience to guide a project. [A VC]» Will professional voices on the web be overtaken by the “amafessionals” amateur professionals?...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Making Something From Nothing
- I spent some time yesterday at Musee De l'Orangerie with two of my teenage kids. Its an art museum in the Tuleries housing the art collection of Walter and Guillaume and Monet's famous Waterlilies paintings. That's a Modigliani painting of Paul Guillame from the l'Orangerie collection on the right. As...
- News items 2009-08-07
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