$100 Million Payday For Feedburner - This Deal Is Confirmed. Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal. Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by Google for around $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly upfront, according to our source, although the founders will be locked in for a couple of years.
The information we have is that the deal is now under a binding term sheet and will close in 2-3 weeks, and there is nothing that can really derail it at this point. Huge congratulations to Feedburner. The company was founded in 2003 and has raised just $10 million in capital over two rounds. Portage Ventures funded their $1 million Series A round in 2004.
The $9 million Series B round was closed in mid 2005 (second close in 2006), from Mobius Venture Capital and Union Square Ventures. Google est partout, il sait tout! Google est sûrement le plus gros, des géants du Web, en tout juste quelques années le géant s’est imposé sur le web dans pratiquement tous les marchés clé. La firme de Moutain contrôle tout, et arrive à rendre ses utilisateurs addicts à ses services qui chaque jour, vous rendent plus d’un service. Rachat sur rachat, services sur services, annonce sur annonce, Google est l’un des rares à faire l’actualité semaine après semaine sur internet, mais comme si cela ne suffisait pas depuis quelques années Google veut exister grâce à une simple connexion Internet, mais pas uniquement… Ce billet n’est en rien une critique du monopole qu’exerce Google, mais uniquement mon avis sur ce géant qui est quand même plus que fascinant.
Rappel Historique Google est créé le 27 Septembre 1998, par Larry Page, 24 ans, et Sergey Brin, 23 ans, dans la Silicon Valley. Dur de résumer les 11 ans d’une des plus grosses et plus connues des sociétés. Sur le Web… Musique et Vidéo Et la vidéo ? Le mobile Conclusion Inactif. John Battelle's Searchblog: The Day I Ask a Search Engine "What Shall I Do Tomorrow" ... …or “What Job Should I Take” is the day one of you, please, should put me out of my misery. Some things are simply best left to conversation and that messy thing called human relationships. Hell, once I can have that kind of a conversation with a search engine, it’s entirely arguable if the search engine is anything other than a human being, right? From the FT: Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said gathering more personal data was a key way for Google to expand and the company believes that is the logical extension of its stated mission to organise the world’s information.
Asked how Google might look in five years’ time, Mr Schmidt said: “We are very early in the total information we have within Google. The algorithms will get better and we will get better at personalisation. “The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’