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How Much Is A User Valued Out?
People talk about the valuation of companies like Facebook and Twitter and invariably mention user growth. But how much is a user valued at? In this entry, I crunch the numbers on the companies that have gone public or are about to.
kaufDa is one of Germany’s leading “promotion search” sites. What’s that? It helps you look for the best sales and mobile couponing running near where you live.
Axel Springer acquires majority stake in kaufDa mobile coupons startup for $40 million
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Evernote Reaches Two Million Lifeloggers, Half Of Them Are On Th
“Evernote is definitely positioned to be the lifelogging tool of choice,” says CEO Phil Libin. “That ambient video capture was my original plan for Evernote—always recording, not storing, you bookmark it—that is exactly what we want to do.” Next year Evernote will introduce voice search, which will be a big step towards that ultimate vision (if you can search audio, you can search through what was said in videos). But full life recording is still a few years out. For now, Libin is more focussed on polishing his current product as it enters the mainstream. Evernote just reached 2 million unique users, only 7 months after reaching its first million .
Our earlier report about Critical Path buying mobile services startup ShoZu turns out to have been right on the money.
Done deal: Critical Path acquires Shozu, CEO Chris Wade stays on
Hungry Machine Inc., the application developer behind LivingSocial.com , the social cataloging service, has raised $5 million in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing .
LivingSocial Creator Takes New $5M Round – GigaOM
HootSuite Raises $1.9 Million For Social Media Dashboard
Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City.For the past four months, Amsterdam-based eBuddy has turned a profit, CEO Jan-Joost Rueb tells me, by offering advertising-supported services for free in combination with sales of a premium iPhone application. The company, backed by 11.5 million Euros in venture capital from Lowland Capital Partners and Prime Technology Ventures, markets a Web-based social network and instant messaging aggregator that enables people to sign in to their service once and stay connected to people through various platforms in one single interface where all of them are centralized. It also offers a number of ways for people to use the service on their mobile phones, through a mobile web service, a Java-based messenger client and applications for iPhone and Android .
How eBuddy’s Mobile Monetization Strategy Helped It Turn A Profi
Eyeka raises €3 million for crowd-sourcing ad campaigns
[France] Eyeka , which connects brands and creative consumers, has raised €3 million in a second round of financing. The company already had €5 million in backing in 2006 with Ventech , DN Capital and SFR Developpement , while the company was focused on a platform to enhance pictures and videos management from mobiles.Tumblr
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Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012.