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Koofers.com .common Knowledge
Monday, 22 Dec, 2008 – 8:46 | Comments
Koofers.com .common Knowledge

At the very least, this site has a great tagline. For those who don’t know, a “koofer” is a piece of historical data that can be used to help someone in class, exams, or …

Chegg Gets $25 Million For Used Books
Wednesday, 17 Dec, 2008 – 10:04 | Comments
Chegg Gets $25 Million For Used Books

Many of you might have not heard about Chegg.com before.  Chegg, located in Santa Clara, California is a startup that enables its users to rent textbooks for the semester instead of having to buy them.  …

Multiply Gets $5 Million and a Television Partnership
Tuesday, 9 Dec, 2008 – 13:40 | Comments
Multiply Gets $5 Million and a Television Partnership

Multiply.com, the world’s fifth largest social networking site and home of the “family-friendly networking” has partnered with ABS-CBN, Lifetime’s “The Balancing Act,” and received $5 million in funding from ABS-CBN. These partnerships promise several …

Angie’s Just Got Another $7 Million Dollar Listing
Wednesday, 3 Dec, 2008 – 12:09 | Comments
Angie’s Just Got Another $7 Million Dollar Listing

Angie has another round of funding to add to their list.  Angieslist a privately held company out of Indianapolis, just raised $7 million, which comes on top of the $18 million they raised in venture …

Rackspace Buys Two Startups Potential Hope For Own Acquisition
Wednesday, 22 Oct, 2008 – 15:22 | Comments
Rackspace Buys Two Startups Potential Hope For Own Acquisition

Rackspace Hosting the world’s leading hosting services provider, today unveiled its cloud hosting strategy which extends the company’s technology and service leadership to cloud hosting.
In support of its new cloud hosting strategy, the company announced …

Another Acquisition For Automattic This Time PollDaddy
Thursday, 16 Oct, 2008 – 9:31 | Comments
Another Acquisition For Automattic This Time PollDaddy

Matt Mullenweg, of Automattic announced today that they have acquired Silgo, Ireland based PollDaddy.  Automattic as many of you know owns WordPress.  PollDaddy distributes embeddable polls and survey widgets on sites like Wordpress, and is …

AdEngage Acquired By Technorati
Wednesday, 15 Oct, 2008 – 13:51 | Comments
AdEngage Acquired By Technorati

Today, in an all stock transaction, AdEngage was aquired by Technorati.  AdEngage, which is a Los Angeles based advertising company, has only 12 employees.  Technorati, which is based in San Francisco makes the purchase following …

JS-Kit Gets 3.6 Million In a Series B Round
Tuesday, 14 Oct, 2008 – 12:37 | Comments
JS-Kit Gets 3.6 Million In a Series B Round

JS-Kit, an application company and blog enhancer has raised $3.6 Million in a Series B round of funding.  The funding was led by Altos Ventures.  Prior to this round, JS-Kit raised $1.2 Million in August …