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 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 StrongMail Acquires PopularMedia Redwood City-based StrongMail reported Tuesday that it has acquired PopularMedia, a provider of social media marketing products. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. StrongMail said it would become a component of the firm's "social media framework" products. PopularMedia is based in San Francisco, and was venture backed by Sequoia Capital, Steamboat Ventures, and DAG Ventures. posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009(Full story) Paglo Looks To Cloud For IT Log Analysis Menlo Park-based Paglo announced Tuesday that it has rolled out a new, cloud-based service which will help IT administrators to search and index their log data. The firm said the new Log Management service from the firm will automatically capture and store their logs through an on-demand service, and then allow users to search those logs for information. The new service will start at $99 per month. posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009(Full story) Yahoo 360 Shutting Down, Really Yahoo told users of its Yahoo 360 social networking and blogging site today that it is officially closing its doors on July 13th. The site--which has been slated for closure for over a year now--provided a way for users to blog and share their personal profile information with other users. The firm is now encouraging its users to move their information to Yahoo's "Profiles" service. posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009(Full story) Flickr Ties Into Twitter Flickr, Yahoo's popular photo sharing and social networking site, said Tuesday that the firm has integrated the photo site with micro messaging service Twitter, and will allow its users to automatically send links to its photos via Twitter. According to the site, users can plug into Twitter using its existing "add a blog page" functionality. The new functionality allows users to either Tweet content when photos are uploaded via email, or through the "Blog this" functionality on the (More info...) posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009(Full story) Opus Capital Snags iPhone VP As General Partner Menlo Park-based venture capital firm Opus Capital reports today that it has snagged Bob Borchers, the former Senior Director of Worldwide Product Marketing for Apple's iPhone, as a general partner. Opus said that Borchers will focus on investments in mobile applications and services, as well as related hardware and software deals. Borchers was a part of the original iPhone team, and has also served at FusionOne, Nokia, and Nike. posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009(Full story) Yahoo Names Branding Head Sunnyvale-based Yahoo said Tuesday that it has hired on a new executive to boost the firm's branding efforts. According to Yahoo, it has hired on Penny Baldwin as Senior Vice President, Global Integrated Marketing and Brand Management. Baldwin joins the firm from Young & Rubicam Brands, Y&R Advertising and Wunderman Direct Marketing. The firm said that Baldwin has worked with Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, AMD, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, Siebel Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Cadbury, Schweppes, (More info...) posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009(Full story) Firetide Gets $4.5M In Debt Round Los Gatos-based Firetide, a developer of wireless mesh networking hardware, has scored $4.5M in a debt round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the funding were not released by the company. Firetide has previously received venture backing from Menlo Ventures, Coral Capital Management, HMS Ventures, Hawaiian Electric Industries, and Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners. posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 (More)(Full story) Simply Hired Expands Internationally Mountain View-based Simply Hired, a provider of job listings, said that it has expanded internationally with five new job search sites. According to the firm, it has introduced new localized sites covering Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Brazil, and the Netherlands. The firm said that those companies are "prosumer" countries with early adopters of innovative technology and Internet usage. Simply Hired is venture backed by Fox interactive Media, Foundation Capital, Garage Technology Ventures, and (More info...) posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009(Full story) Zynga Hires Chief Designer San Francisco-based social games developer Zynga reported today that industry veteran Brian Reynolds has joined the firm as chief designer. In this newly created role, Zynga noted, Reynolds will head its East Coast operations while directing the product development team as it creates new social strategy games. Zynga described Reynolds as an industry "legend" who previously helped establish two prominent videogame studios: Firaxis Games and Big Huge Games. Zynga added that Reynolds' past p (More info...) posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009(Full story) Oracle Expands SaaS Offering For ISVs Redwood shores-based Oracle has launched a new, software-as-a-service offering targeted at ISVs, the firm disclosed this morning. According to Oracle, it has created a new license specifically targeted at independent software vendors (ISVs), which will allow them to purchase access to Oracle's Platform for SaaS on a monthly basis. That means those vendors will be able to license use of Oracle's database software and related components, depending on growth and end user demand--rather than (More info...) posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009(Full story) High Gear Media Snags $5.5M Palo Alto-based High Gear Media, an owner of a network of 38 automotive websites, said today that it has raised $5.5M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by DAG Ventures, and also included prior investors Accel Partners and Greylock Partners. The firm said the funding brings its total raised to $12M. High Gear Media will use the funding for further developing its technology platform, as well as strategic acquisitions. The company's web sites include expert reviews, news, opinio (More info...) posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 (More)(Full story) |
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