Kara Swisher in Media on July 27, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
Pixazza is dead. Long live Luminate.
Liz Gannes in Social on April 26, 2011 at 2:27 pm PT
Venture capitalist Gideon Yu is leaving Khosla Ventures and plans to join the front office of the San Francisco 49ers as its Chief Strategy Officer, according to multiple sources.
Kara Swisher in News on March 22, 2011 at 12:50 pm PT
Recently, BoomTown took a walk down digital Memory Lane with Bob Lisbonne, CEO of Pixazza, the photo-tagging service that has nicknamed itself “AdSense for images.”
That’s because Lisbonne used to be a big wheel at Netscape Communications.
We talked about the old days, of course, but more about the new days and his business focused on putting all kinds of advertising within online images.
Kara Swisher in News on December 1, 2010 at 3:53 am PT
According to sources close to the situation, well-known Silicon Valley power player Peter Currie is joining the board of directors of Twitter.
It’s an interesting choice to bring the well-regarded moneyman to the microblogging start-up, and could indicate an intent to push to an IPO eventually.
With much hot start-up experience, Currie is also suited to helping Twitter sort through its current funding round.
Liz Gannes in Social on November 16, 2010 at 2:43 pm PT
Meebo has nearly completed a $25 million round of funding led by Khosla Ventures, with Khosla partner Gideon Yu becoming a board observer. This is the Web-sharing toolmaker’s Series D round, and will be announced by Khosla in a speech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon. Existing backers such as Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson are also participating in the round, which brings Meebo to total funding of more than $60 million.
Kara Swisher in News on October 25, 2010 at 9:04 am PT
Chas Edwards, the publisher and chief revenue officer for Digg, the social news discovery service, is leaving the San Francisco company, according to sources.
The exec, who came to Digg in May of 2009 from Federated Media, will move to a start-up called Pixazza, a photo-tagging site for advertising, “by enabling consumers to simply mouse over images to learn more and see related products.”
Kara Swisher in News on June 11, 2010 at 5:10 am PT
Memo to Dennis Crowley: BoomTown has not forgotten you!
In fact, I have been tracking the popular social location service he helms the way Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny, since my last update in April.
And there’s a lot of stuff up, doc.
Kara Swisher in News on April 23, 2010 at 1:37 am PT
No, Facebook is not in serious talks to buy Foursquare.
No, Microsoft is not poised to snap up the social location start-up, beyond a cursory should-we-look query to itself.
No, there is no longer a crazy bidding war going on among major players in Silicon Valley, all waiting with bated breath for Foursquare founder and CEO Dennis Crowley to make a decision about which of them he will deign to take a big pile of money from.
Here’s what’s true: You can check in any time you like with Foursquare to do a deal, but you can never leave.
Kara Swisher in News on April 19, 2010 at 8:26 pm PT
In an unusual move for a venture firm chasing a hot start-up, Andreessen Horowitz said it has dropped out of the race to be an investor in social location company Foursquare.
In an interview tonight, Ben Horowitz, partner in the high-profile VC outfit he helms with Marc Andreessen, said enough was enough related to the intense media and other machinations, which have included talks to be acquired by Yahoo, around the deal.
“We withdrew our funding offer to Foursquare and we are out,” said Horowitz in an interview with BoomTown.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 12, 2010 at 1:40 pm PT
The crowdsourced recommendations site led by Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon gets a big vote of confidence from a high-profile investor.
