The domain name SmartDate.com sold according to DNjournal.com in May 2009 for $2,000 on Sedo.com. Today comes the news via TechCrunch that the now Paris-based online dating site, raised $5 million in…
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Overstock Sued By 7 California DA’s “For At Least $15 Million” For Misleading Consumers
Overstock.com has been in the domain news quite a bit recently for its acquisition of o.Co as well as considering changing all of its non-US sites to o.Co. Overstock was back in…
AllThingsD: Is Google Going To Buy Groupon.com For $3-$4 BILLION Dollars?
According to AllThingsD.com, Google is in negotiations to buy Groupon.com and is offering “well above what Yahoo offered earlier this year for the company”. Yahoo according to AllThingsD, Groupon “turned down a…
Google Launches Its Shopping Site: Boutiques.com
Google launced today a shopping site today called Boutiques.com which seems to be the first project from Google’s acquisition of Like.com Here is how Google describes the service on their blog: “The…
Google Gets Patent On Instant Search
According to Fortune, the United States Patent Office awarded Google a Patent today for the technology behind Google Instant Search. The granting of the patent means that other search engines won’t be…
VentureBeat.com DemandMedia IS Worth $1.4-$1.7 Billion
In a blog post today on VentureBeat.com, Stephen Walker The CEO of Perfectmarket.com chats about DemandMedia’s IPO and concluded: “I can now envision a scenario wherein Demand Media, whose properties include eHow,…
Email Coming To Facebook Today? Yourname@Facebook.com: Get Ready For The Big Grab
According to several reports Facebook.com will announce its own email system to compete with gmail and hotmail today at its a media event scheduled at its headquarters. The email project has been…