Movers and Shakers

Q1 Jobs Report Documents the Rise of E-Commerce

'Net Features : wm-movers — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Last week, Freelancer.com revealed the figures for what it found to be the 50 fastest growing online jobs for the first quarter of 2013. What the global outsourcing marketplace found was that the e-commerce industry continues to grow at an impressive...(read more)

Mobile & Cloud, Top Trends for 2013

'Net Features : wm-movers — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:45:00 GMT

As the new year approaches, its time for small and medium-sized businesses to start getting connected to their customers in the cloud, as well as on mobile devices, according to a new trends report from cloud services solution provider j2Global. In compiling...(read more)

Groupon Lands a Savory Platform

'Net Features : wm-movers — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:45:00 GMT

Groupon is sinking its teeth into the restaurant industry with its recent acquisition of Savored , which is a platform that enables diners to make free online reservations and pay lower prices at restaurants across the United States. After booking a reservation...(read more)

Hip to be Square with $200 Million

'Net Features : wm-movers — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:30:00 GMT

Payment technology and service provider Square has raised $200 million as part of a Series D round (bringing its total to an estimated $325 million) that included $25 million from Starbucks. While backed by some big names including Visa and Chase, it...(read more)

Trend Spotting (and Funding) with Dataminr

'Net Features : wm-movers — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:30:00 GMT

As if you needed it, here's a little more evidence that social media remains of great interest to the venture capital crowd these days (as it should be with the Web technology worker, too) : social media analytics company Dataminr has secured $13...(read more)

Privacy Comes to Mobile Ads

'Net Features : wm-movers — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:09:00 GMT

Mobile ad network Jumptap has partnered with Evidon to fight for consumers’ rights to privacy. The partnership between the two companies brings the AdChoices icon to in-app and mobile Web advertisements that use behavioral data to target consumers...(read more)

Box Scores Big in Latest Round of Funding

'Net Features : wm-movers — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:35:00 GMT

The cloud computing industry is dominated by a few big names – Amazon, VMware, NetSuite, Salesforce, Dropbox, and, of course, Google always seem to take over the majority of the conversation. However, somewhat quietly in the background, Box has...(read more)

ValueClick Exceeds Expectations

'Net Features : wm-movers — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Digital marketing provider ValueClick, whose brand lineup includes such notable Web names as Commission Junction, GretyStripe, Dotomi, PriceRunner and others, announced its second quarter 2012 results this week. Adjusted-EBITDA and earnings per share...(read more)

Google Catches Fire in Social Media

'Net Features : wm-movers — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:00:00 GMT

Google is getting even more serious about social. The search engine giant recently announced its acquisition of Wildfire , a popular social media marketing platform. The ultimate goal of this acquisition, according to Google’s blog , is to help...(read more)

Facebook Earnings Call Highlights

'Net Features : wm-movers — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:30:00 GMT

Facebook held its first earnings call last week to report financial results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2012. Highlights of the earning call are below. Revenue for the second quarter totaled $1.18 billion, an increase of 32%, compared with...(read more)

Akamai 2Q Revenue $331 Million

'Net Features : wm-movers — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Content delivery platform Akamai reported revenue for the second quarter of 2012 was $331 million, a 20 percent increase over second quarter 2011 revenue of $277 million. Net income for the second quarter of 2012 was $44 million, or $0.24 per diluted...(read more)

Amazon Sales Up 29% to $12.83 Billion

'Net Features : wm-movers — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 06:30:00 GMT

Amazon had quite the second quarter based on its most recent financial results. Net sales for the company increased 29% to $12.83 billion in the second quarter, compared with $9.91 billion in second quarter 2011. Numerous highlights were discussed in...(read more)

Best Quarter Ever for Netsuite

'Net Features : wm-movers — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Cloud-based financial/ERP software provider NetSuite announced operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012. Total revenue for the second quarter of 2012 was $74.7 million, representing a 29% increase over the same period in the prior...(read more)

Movers & Shakers - Flurry, Ordoro and GoodData

Pete Prestipino — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:25:00 GMT

Earnings (most notably Facebook's) are where much of the attention is being focused today, but rest assure, there are many other interesting developments in the Web world. Below are just a few of the funding and acquisition news items that caught our attention today.

Flurry Buys Trestle: App analytics and app monetization platform Flurry announced it has acquired Seattle-based Tresetle, a provider of mobile backend services, for an undisclosed sum. Flurry is currently used by more than 70,000 developers, who deploy it in more than 200,000 apps.

Ordoro Grabs 1.2M: Austin, Texas-based Ordoro, which develops software for ecommerce merchants to track and shop product and manage inventory, has raised $1.2 million from investors and angels, following a $600,000 round last year.

GoodData Sees New $25M Series C: Cloud-based big data platform GoodData announced it has closed a $25 million in Series C funding led by Tenaya Capital, with participation from new investor Next World Capital. The company has raised $53.5 million in total to date.

Former Yahoo! CEO Lands at ShopRunner

'Net Features : wm-movers — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:30:00 GMT

Former Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson is now the CEO of ShopRunner, a service that hopes it can help retailers compete with Amazon Prime. ShopRunner is a service that allows users, for $79/annually or $8.95/monthly, to pick up packages at retail store locations...(read more)