OneRiot Snatches Up $7 Million

OneRiot has just closed their Series C round of $7 million led by Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, and Spark Capital. You may recall us mentioning this real-time search engine in a recent post about the new Digsby.

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Conserving Jet and Ebony in The Digital Era

Like many media companies, Johnson Publishing Company, the publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines, is rumored to be dangerously close to wiping out under the waves of the crashing economy.  And everybody seems to have an opinion as to why Johnson Publishing and the readers of both marquee brands should do whatever it takes to [...]

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CNN’s Black In America Online

CNN’s Black in America television special attracted as many as 2.6 million viewers in a single sitting.  Despite its success, CNN has yet to take full advantage of what has the potential to be a marquee brand online.  It would be to the widely-acclaimed cable news channel’s benefit to take one of the following steps [...]

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Top 5 Up and Coming websites

We talk a lot on here about “big sites” or “big brands” and what they are doing on the web.  We do keep an eye out for smaller start-ups that are doing their thing, and there have been quite a few popping up lately (or that we have been taking notice of lately), so we [...]

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