Surviving the Economic Forest Fire

As the sub-prime mortgage market continues to drive down housing prices, so goes consumer spending. As most of you may know consumer spending is a key catalyst helping to propel the booming online advertising industry. As consumer companies are forced to reassess budget allocations, one of the first casualties in corporate budgets is usually [...]

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Weekly Money Trail- 08/01/2008

Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire software company Pure Networks for $120 million in cash as the networking giant expands its consumer product portfolio. This is Cisco’s first acquisition of a venture-backed company since it announced in November that it would acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software, for $100 million in cash. Cisco, which [...]

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The Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008

Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites. http://www.alerts.com

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ZeeVee TV helps make HD easy with “Localcasting”

Start Up ZeeTV is not just another media box, or set top box maker. The start-up company just announced a box that will allow users to broadcast high-def web video and other computer content to any HDTV in the house.

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Weekly Money Trail 7-4-2008

Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in favor [...]

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THE WEEKLY MONEY TRAIL-6/20/2008

San Francisco, Mochi Media Makes $10M To Monetize Games With plans to build out its infrastructure to meet demand from game developers for its ad platform, Mochi Media Inc. has raised a $10 million Series B round of funding. http://www.mochimedia.com New York Hanger Network Racks Up $10M More Hanger Network In-Home Media Inc., which distributes ads, coupons and promotional [...]

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Always On Hollywood 08

The Always on Hollywood event went off big as usual. There were tons of VC’s and institutional bankers there courting the business of the young, and the fresh (hot media start ups). There were quite a few impressive starts up offering their pitches for rooms full of venture capitalist ready to wage their calculated bets on [...]

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