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Klout raises ~ $30 million at $200 million valuation
Klout, the startup that calculates how socially influential you are on the web, has raised a heaping pile of capital -- or so we hear from multiple sources. We hear from a source with 90% certainty that Klout has raised ~ $30 million at a $200 million valuation. Kleiner Perkins led the round with participation from IVP. Four other involved sources gave no comment. Klout was founded in 2008 by Joe Fernandez and Binh Tran.
Disruptive mobile payments company Square is making a number of announcements today relating to growth and new user features. First, the company is dropping its new user limits. For background, Square offers an iPhone, Android and iPad app which allows merchants to process and manage credit card transactions with a handy little credit card swiping device that plugs into the headset/microphone jack.
Square Processing $2B In Payments Per Year, Has Signed Up 800K Merchants | TechCrunch
Facebook releases its official iPad app
Facebook has finally revealed its official iPad app. This long awaited tablet version comes with multi-conversation chat, a photo browser etc. Persistent access to notifications, messages, and requests will also allow users to check for new alerts while bookmarking their previous place elsewhere in the app.
Netflix Abandons Plan to Rent DVDs on Qwikster - NYTimes.com
In a swift reversal, Netflix said Monday that it had decided to keep its DVD-by-mail and online streaming services together under one name and one Web site, abandoning the breakup it had announced three weeks earlier. The company, which will keep a recent 60 percent price increase in place, declared that it had moved too fast when it tried to spin-off the old-fashioned DVD service into a new company called Qwikster, angering many subscribers. “We underestimated the appeal of the single Web site and a single service,” Steve Swasey, a Netflix spokesman, said in an interview, before quickly adding: “We greatly underestimated it.”
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Levchin and Gurley Say That Next Big Company Will Capture The Interest Graph
Yesterday, at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, Googler and PayPal founder Max Levchin and Benchmark GP Bill Gurley discussed “game-changing technology” and the future of the Web. Emblematic of today’s mindset, they attacked this rather large topic by comparing the strengths and objectives of Google and Facebook, using the latter’s jaw-dropping stats (500+ million users, 1 in every 13 people on Earth logs into Facebook each day) and its promotion of the social graph as a measure of what’s to come. Levchin said that Facebook is fast becoming the new social white pages, i.e. when you don’t know where someone is on the Web, you go to Facebook to find and connect with them. But, in addition to that, he says, the social networking giant is really “the rich white pages,” where you not only locate someone but have the added benefit of finding out what they like, what they read, what their favorite movies are, and so on.
Google renforce son positionnement dans la publicité de proximité et confirme le business modèle son service Adresses. Désormais, au début des résultats d’Adresse, les utilisateurs retrouverons des annonces publicitaires. Après trois mois de tests, Google annonce le déploiement sur l’ensemble des États-Unis de son nouveau service publicitaire à destination des commerces de proximité: Google Boost . Pour les commerçants, le service fonctionne sur le même principe que les Adwords, les commerçants peuvent programmer leurs annonces promotionnelles tout en fixant un budget quotidien. Celles-ci apparaitront, accompagnées des commentaires des utilisateurs, sur le moteur de recherche accessible depuis un iPhone ou un mobile Android.
Google Boost, le modèle publicitaire d’Adresses s’étend à l’ensemble des Etats-Unis | FrenchWeb.fr
Un taux de rebond qui excède 50% est mauvais signe - taux de rebond - Journal du Net e-Business
Le taux de rebond est le rapport entre le nombre d'internautes qui ne visitent qu'une page d'un site et le nombre de visiteurs total . Si sur la page d'arrivée le visiteur clique sur un lien sortant, un "mailto", se rend sur une page de formulaire, ou télécharge une brochure, qu'il sort du site sans consulter une deuxième page, il passe généralement en taux de sortie. Si un taux de rebond élevé est une norme pour certains sites d'information tels que des dictionnaires, annuaires, ou des blogs, il est généralement mauvais signe pour des sites média avec un lectorat fidèle ou les marchands qui invitent à l'action . Il traduit alors une mauvaise interaction entre les internautes et l'éditeur. Jean-Pascal Thys, Directeur formation & innovation de Synodiance © S. de P.
La croissance de l'e-commerce français dépasse 26 % en 2010 - Journal du Net e-Business
© Microcozm - Fotolia L'e-commerce enregistre une progression de 25 % du nombre des transactions en ligne en un an. Si le panier moyen annuel est stable par rapport à 2009, celui de décembre 2010 est en retrait de plus de quatre euros par rapport à décembre 2009.
The Mashable Awards , our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is entering its final round. After receiving 700,000 nominations, we’ve narrowed down the 40,000+ nominees to just five finalists per category. You have from now until December 15 to pick the winners. If you have questions about the Mashable Awards and the list of finalists, please post them to our GetSatisfaction page . In partnership with Cirque du Soleil, The Mashable Awards Gala event will bring together the winners and nominees, the Mashable community, partners, media, the marketing community, consumer electronics and technology brands and attendees from the 2011 International CES Convention to Las Vegas on Thursday, January 6, 2011.
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Pendant l'été, Emailvision est devenu proporiété de Francisco Partners , un fonds d'investissement américain spécialisé dans les nouvelles technologies. Celui-ci a racheté 58,9 % du capital de l'éditeur de solutions d'e-mail marketing. Les dirigeants Nick Heys et Guy Porré ainsi que les fonds Sofinnova et Seventure ont cédé leurs parts . En prenant en compte un pacte d'actionnaires, Francisco Partners contrôlerait 75,9 % du capital.
Emailvision acquis par Francisco Partners - Principales acquisitions de l'e-business en 2010 - Journal du Net e-Business
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