Meebo

Sources: Google Is Close to Buying Meebo

Liz Gannes in News on May 11 at 7:42 pm PT

Google is in talks to acquire Meebo, according to two sources close to the situation.

Clearspring Raises $20M for Audience Data and Gobbling Up Start-ups

Liz Gannes in Social on May 10, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Clearspring, maker of the AddThis sharing tool seen on nine million Web sites, has raised $20 million in Series D funding led by Institutional Venture Partners.

Gideon Yu Leaves Khosla Ventures to Sign On With 49ers

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.

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Meebo Buys Psychographic Targeter Mindset Media

Liz Gannes in Social on February 8, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

Mountain View, Calif.-based Meebo, the Web toolbar maker, has acquired a New York City-based start-up called Mindset Media, which specializes in psychographic targeting for brand advertising. The company said the acquisition will help with its expansion of advertising products. Twelve members of the Mindset team will be joining Meebo, while two who work in business development will not. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Meebo Finishes Series D at $27.5M

Liz Gannes in Social on December 21, 2010 at 12:33 pm PT

The content-sharing platform Meebo has completed its latest round of funding, the one we broke the news on last month. As reported previously, Khosla Ventures led the round, but now the total has been raised to $27.5 million from $25 million.

Exclusive: Meebo Raises $25M More

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.

Meebo Foursquarifies the Web with Check-ins

Liz Gannes in Social on November 14, 2010 at 9:21 pm PT

Meebo on Tuesday plans to announce an update to its popular Meebo Bar (which is used on this Web site, and many others, to make it easier for users to share content). The goal is to help users discover new Web sites (kind of like StumbleUpon) and become loyal to them by using a check-in system (kind of like a virtual Foursquare).

BoomTown Talks Girl Geek at Facebook Hack Event

Kara Swisher in News on September 13, 2010 at 8:08 am PT

This Saturday, BoomTown gassed up the Mini and motored on down to Facebook’s newest building for a Developer Garage and Hackathon, which the social networking giant did in partnership with Girls in Tech. The goal was to focus on women developers, although there were plenty of dudes in attendance, as per usual at any all-night nerd-off. Facebook, feeling empowered, gave me the stage. Oops!

Full Disclosure: ATD Adds Meebo Toolbar

Kara Swisher in News on May 4, 2010 at 11:11 am PT

As we have with every change to features and functionality on All Things Digital, today we are writing to give you details about a new Meebo toolbar on this site. Designed to facilitate sharing, help navigation and more, it appears at the very bottom of each page on our site. The first thing you need to know: You can get rid of it whenever you like.

Facebook, Meebo Talking Again–Now That Meebo Has Agreed to Use Facebook Connect

Peter Kafka in Media on February 5, 2009 at 12:04 pm PT

Last month, Facebook forced Web-based chat service Meebo to cut itself off from the social network. But now that Meebo has agreed to use the new Facebook Connect service, all is forgiven.