There were a bunch of acquisitions and investments involving hundreds of million that you probably didn’t hear about this week.
The company uses a hack for its web site of BU.MP.
If your wondering, MP is the country code for (ccTLD) for Northern Mariana Islands (but you probably knew that already).
Amazon bought the other 58% of Lovefilm.com which it didn’t already own for $200 Million.
Lovefilm.com is the top DVD-rental subscription service in Europe like Netflix.com is here is in the US.
Qwiki Inc., A visual search engine, raised $8 million including money from Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.
The company that owns the site, Damntheradio.com, received a $2 Million dollar Investment this week.
The company is FanBridge and the site says about itself:
“It’s the fastest and easiest way to build powerful, sleek social media campaigns. With our enterprise-level content management system, you can
build a powerful rich media campaign in minutes.”
ChaCha.com a question and answer site that according to Compete gets over 10 million visitors a month, received another $3 Million in investment.
The company reportedly has now raised around $75 million
Scribd.com a online document sharing site raised another $13 Million bringing the total the company raised to $26 Million
According to The money Tree Report, out this past week, Venture Capital companies invested $21.8 billion over 3,277 U.S. deals in 2010, an increase of 19% in dollars and 12% increase in the number of in deals over 2009.
and how was your week?
isn’t “bump” info/files trasfer a Apple patented technology?
Hey guys. Which do you think is better, LoveFilms or RentAMovie.com?
This sorta thing is just in season right now.
My week was good…my BSwebsite got $50million funding but I told them to take a hike and ask them to invest in that cheezeburger site.
Did you read that ?
I ain’t taking your stinkin Money!!!
Lovefilms.com was a developed site with tons of customers
I bought .com “MovieFanatic” recently in hopes servicing a few content niches and getting in front of a few emerging movie affiliates. Never thought about implementing a geotargeting component, but now, I’m thinking that might be something worth considering.
“Lovefilms.com was a developed site with tons of customers”
They have been a frequent advertiser on UK TV over the last 3 maybe 4 years, I’d never heard of them before that…never used them either.
@ BullS
DamnTheCheesburger.com
oh, no he is gonna buy it …
LOL
few weeks ago some rumors said that Apple wants to buy Netflix
FROM ABOVE:
There were a bunch of acquisitions and investments involving hundreds of million that you probably didn’t hear about this week.
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NOTHING TO MATCH THIS!
Rick Schwartz buys an entire Football Team:
That’s right…
Tired of hearing about Pigeon S**t Rick has cast his attention on
a new Bird of a feather “The Arizona Cardinals” Football Team,
There were rumblings heard that Rick feels that domainer’s
need to diversify there portfolios any way that they can.
In a good will gesture and and belief, that one can never do
anything too BIG … everybody will get a FREE …
Sweat Shirt at the upcoming Rick Schwartz …
Domainer T R A F F I C Show …
It will read “Go,Go Cardinals
(Pigeon S**t is for the Birds)
(Large sizes only as Rick Schwartz has been heard to say …
… never do anything SMALL)
FULL STORY HERE:
://domaingang.com/domain-news/rick-schwartz-buys-an-entire-football-team/
Lovefilm.com – It’s NetFlix for Europe – and only a few years ago they took over Amazon’s DVD rental service here in the UK, at least. I *was* a member for several years, but as streaming media becomes more viable, other sources e.g. Studios with rights to thousands of back catalogue films are looking at ways to get into a market that no longer requires handling a physical item, postage and returns…. There was actually a very illuminating article about the business in the New Yorker, of all places, recently.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2010/10/18/101018ta_talk_surowiecki