According to a blog post on by Google, Google is upgrading its Google Analytics tool to give users real time information. Google's free analytics tool offers a comprehensive data on websites but until now, it has a 24-hour lag on full data reporting. The new Google Analytics Real-Time tool offers an instant look at a site's active-visit count. It began rolling out Thursday to some users … [Read more...]
New Report On Daily Deal Industry: Acquisitions Increasing; Valuations Dropping “Quickly & Signicantly”
Research firm CB Insights, published a report on "the Daily Deal" industry calling it the "most detailed and comprehensive report on M&A transactions, M&A valuation multiples, transaction deal terms and investment funding trends." According to the report: The four key takeaways which emerged after an analysis of the data and numerous acquirers, investors and acquisition targets in the … [Read more...]
US Justice Department Alleges That FullTiltPoker Was A Ponzi Scheme
According to WSJ.com, the Justice Department amended the charges already filed against Full Tilt Poker and some of the executives, alleging that Full Tilt Poker was a "Ponzi scheme that allowed the company to pay out $444 million to themselves and other owners, which included other famous poker players." "The government alleges Full Tilt executives misrepresented to the website's players that … [Read more...]
Offers.com Acquires CouponCodes.com For A “Huge Amount of Money” & Launches Today
About 2 1/2 years ago we wrote about Offers.com which at that time had just launched by a domainer in the coupon/Deals space, after buying the domain for $180,000. Fast forward and today the company behind Offers.com have acquired the domain name CouponCodes.com which launched just today. I spoke to the Steve Schaffer CEO of Vertive, Inc, late yesterday afternoon. The purchase price for … [Read more...]
So What Happens To Type In Traffic When Your PC Looks Like Your Smart Phone: Windows 8 Is Coming
Windows 8 is scheduled for launch sometime in late 2012 but last week a bunch of developers got their hands on a beta version and from most accounts its going to be a game changer, not only for Microsoft but in the way people use PC to navigate the Internet. Your PC (for those 90% of the people not using a Mac) is going to operate a lot more like your smart phone than your current … [Read more...]
For Years We Have Been Telling You Every Word Is Trademarked & Now Even The ‘F” Word Is
If you have been a frequent reader of thedomains.com, you know we have been looking at the trademark system warning that every word, two letter, three letter and every saying your grandma taught you is trademarked somewhere in the world. So we were not surprised to learn the even the "f" word has now been granted trademark protection. In this case the trademark was granted in Germany for the … [Read more...]
AllThingsD: A Shareholder Of Demand Cleans Up On Its Purchase of RSS Graffiti For $16 Million: Meet Michael Blend
AllthingsD.com just posted a story on how one shareholder of DemandMedia, Michael Blend who already received 2 million shares of Demand as part of the compensation for the sale of his former company Hot Keys to Demand, just sold another company to Demand. AllthingsD writes: "Demand Media’s recent purchase of technology company RSS Graffiti is good news for Michael Blend, who owned 40% of … [Read more...]