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[subscribe]Sign Of The Times: NameMedia and Eyeblaster Withdraw IPOs [Full Story]
Paid Content Dec 26, 2008Two of the rare digital media IPOs planned have done something not that rare these days: withdrawing their IPOs. NameMedia, the domain name media company formed by Kelly Conlin, previously CEO of Primedia ( NYSE: PRM ) and IDG respectively, and EyeBlaster, the online rich ad format company, have both Add A Comment »
AllBusiness.com; Pump Audio; KickApps; TV Guide Mag; Founders Fund; IDG [Full Story]
Paid Content Dec 19, 2008AllBusiness.com; Pump Audio; KickApps; Forbes.com; TV Guide Mag; Founders Fund; IDG [Full Story]
Paid Content Dec 19, 2008—AllBusiness.com: Kathy Yates will be stepping down from her post as CEO—though no one will assume the role. According to BtoB , Yates said the CEO position is being eliminated and the Dun & Bradstreet-owned company will be undergoing a restructuring. —Pump Audio: Another CEO resigning Add A Comment »
Wither Macworld? In A Blow To The Franchise, Apple Pulls Out Of The Expo [Full Story]
Paid Content Dec 16, 2008The upcoming Macworld Conference & Expo will be Apple's last. The tech giant is pulling out of the yearly event where Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) faithful convene to be wowed by new products, attend seminars and info sessions, and generally geek out. Philip Schiller, Apple's SVP of worldwide product Add A Comment »
Chinese Video Software Site Baofeng Gets $15 Million Funding [Full Story]
Paid Content Nov 28, 2008The Chinese online video fundings are still continuing, and now seems to have graduated into more tech/backedn type of deals than consumer: Video software company Baofeng.com has received $15 million in VC funding. The round was led by Matrix Partners China and IDG, and the money will be used in developing Add A Comment »
Tarena IT Training Gains VC from IDG, JAFCO Asia [Full Story]
Individual.com Nov 28, 2008(SinoCast) Tarena IT Training, a high-end software training brand in China, announces that it has gained venture capital from world well-known investment firm IDGVC Partners and JAFCO Asia, one of leading venture capital firms in Asia Pacific. Add A Comment »
Storm Codec Gets Additional USD 15mn [Full Story]
Individual.com Nov 27, 2008(SinoCast) Storm Codec announced yesterday in Beijing that it had got USD 15 million in the third round of financing from venture capital firms Matrix Partners and IDG. It is especially unusual for venture capital firms to invest in a Chinese Add A Comment »
Gigaom Network Parting Ways With Federated; Going With IDG's Tech Ad Network [Full Story]
Paid Content Nov 21, 2008Gigaomni Media (GOM), the parent company of the popular network of tech sites including Gigaom, is parting ways with its long time ad partner Federated Media , and moving to a more enterprise-focused IDG TechNetwork , IDG's tech ad network, we have learned and confirmed from the two companies. The Add A Comment »
DAC Obtains USD45mn Venture Investment [Full Story]
Individual.com Nov 20, 2008(SinoCast) Dynamic Advertising Channels Holding Ltd. (DAC), an excellent high-tech out-of-home media group in China, has completed its forth round of financing and obtains USD 45 million venture investment. Investors include IDG, the largest Add A Comment »
Rubicon Project Opens New York Office [Full Story]
Socal Tech Nov 13, 2008Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project, which provides web advertising optimization software, has expanded into New York, the firm announced Thursday. Rubicon, which is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures, and Mayfield, said that it has hired on Josh Wexler as Director of Strategic Add A Comment »
Transpera Raises $8.25 Million In Series B For Mobile Video Monetization Service [Full Story]
TechCrunch Nov 12, 2008Transpera will later today announce it has secured a second round of funding to the tune of $8.25 million on top of an undisclosed amount in Series A financing it received in July 2007. The capital injection comes from initial investors Flybridge Capital Partners (formerly IDG Ventures), Intel Capital Add A Comment »
Myntra.com receives $ 5million in funding from NEA-IUV, IDG Ventures and Accel(PRHUB) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Nov 4, 2008/India PRwire/ - Myntra.com, India’s leading platform for personalized products and gifts and a company which pioneered the on-demand personalization space in India, today announced receiving an investment of $ 5 million. The Series A round led was led by NEA-IndoUS Ventures and IDG Ventures with Add A Comment »
Myntra.com Gets 5 Million In Funding From NEA-IndoUS, IDG and Accel(Rajiv Dingra) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Nov 3, 2008Myntra.com an online marketplace for on demand consumer products like t-shirts, mugs, greeting cards, calendars, keychains and diaries has received an A series round of funding from three venture firms in NEA-IndoUS, IDG Ventures and Accel Partners. The funding shall be utilized for geography expansion Add A Comment »
IDGVC: Luo Remains MySpace China CEO() [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Oct 20, 2008Luo Chuan still holds the chief executive post at MySpace China and is working "almost exclusively" for the social networking company, reports163.com quoting Zhou Quan, the managing director of MySpace China investor IDG Technology Venture Investment. Zhou said MySpace China's senior management Add A Comment »
Magazines' Digital Revenues Offset Last Year's Print Declines (For Some) [Full Story]
Paid Content Oct 5, 2008As magazine ad pages continued to slip this year and last, digital's growth appeared to help offset the print losses at several publishers, particularly Time Inc. and IDG, AdAge reports . The 48 mags that shared information for AdAge's annual Magazine 300 survey said that revenues from digital Add A Comment »
MySpace.cn CEO Resigns [Full Story]
Individual.com Sep 9, 2008(SinoCast) Luo Chuan lately resigned as chief executive officer of MySpace.cn and would join Beijing Netmovie Co., Ltd that is bankrolled by venture capital firm IDG. US-based social networking website MySpace branched out into China in April Add A Comment »
PE cos double-click on online ad boom [Full Story]
India Private Equity Sep 3, 2008With rapid rise in internet penetration in urban India, which has grown from 9% last year to to over 12%, the number of netizens in the country has inched upto a sizeable 49-million. While this figure has made marketers look at internet as a viable advertising platform, venture capitalists have already Add A Comment »
mValent Survey Highlights Cost, Complexity and Risks in Application Infrastructure [Full Story]
EIN News Aug 25, 2008Waltham, Massachusetts and is backed by top-tier venture capital firms, including Flybridge Capital Partners (formerly IDG registered trademarks of mValent, Inc. in the United States. All other trademarks contained herein are the Add A Comment »
New York Times examines the rivalry between TechCrunch50 and the DEMO Conference(Matt Craven) [Full Story]
Wikio - Blogs Aug 18, 2008The New York Times, in an article penned by Brad Stone, takes an in-depth look at the rivalry between the DEMO Conference and the new upstart TechCrunch50 conference: Demo, a 17-year-old conference franchise owned by the technology publisher IDG, has served as the springboard for hit products like the Add A Comment »
SN Digital; YuMe; Mog; IDG; MLB Network; Total Beauty [Full Story]
Paid Content Aug 12, 2008-- SN Digital: *Scripps'* interactive division announced Heather Keets Wright has joined the team as VP of cross-network programming. Having held various positions with magazine brands Entertainment Weekly, Essence and Seveteen, Wright was most recently handling editorial operations at MarthaStewart Add A Comment »
