Bamizon.com has learned the custom splash page and personal analytics dashboard About.me had been sold to AOL less than a week after its launch to the public. About.me founded by Tony Conrad, Ryan Freitas and Tim Young in 2009 and raised $425,000 in funding from investors. About.me allows users to build a simple personal profile [...]
Last week, the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report stated that U.S. online advertising is thriving. In fact, it is up 11.3% in from the first six months of 2009. Approximately $12.1 Billion was spent on web advertising from Jan-June of 2010, and up 13.9% from the second quarter of 2009. Not surprisingly, this is the [...]
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The market share results for September 2010 have come out and there was a bit of a surprise in store. The Bing Yahoo alliance celebrating their first full month of collaboration actually lost a little ground during the month of September. The two search engines, both powered by Microsoft Bing engines lost a total of [...]
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As of today, TechCrunch can no longer claim establishment-flouting indie blog status. AOL announced Tuesday morning that it has agreed to acquire TechCrunch. The terms of the deal were undisclosed, but according to unnamed insiders who spoke to Business Insider, the blog network was acquired for $25 million, which is considerably less than what TechCrunch [...]
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