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    Nouvel Observateur buys Rue89.com

    Claude Perdriel, the boss of “Nouvel Observateur” invested already 200.000 € for 3.5% of website Rue89, believing in this pure french player. Launched in may 2007, the website growth very good and is in position of having 2 million unique visitors every month. The title will remain independent but within the group. Pierre Haski, president, Laurent Mauriac,…

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    8.5 bln $ loss for Microsoft in “online adventure”

    The adventure in online business for Microsoft is extremely costly : 8.5 billion US Dollars loss, with 2.5 billion loss only in 2011. Because of this, is very probable the selling (always in loss) of Ciao  to LeGuide , for an amount non disclosed. One of the major causes is losing positions in search engines, because of Panda, estimated 33% traffic loss. Source : ZDNet France 

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    HeyCrowd raise 150.000 €

    Jacques-Antoine Granjon and Kima Ventures invest in a “Le Web” project , financing one of the projects in the pitch , that drives social media real-time quizz. heycrowd.com source : Journal du Net (12 /12/ 2011)

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    500Friends.com

    http://www.500friends.com/about Leadership The 500friends team has an extensive history of success in ecommerce, loyalty marketing, direct response, social media, and technology development. Investors 500friends has raised $12M from leading institutional investors including Crosslink Capital, Intel Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank. Partners Learn who we’ve partnered with to deliver a best in class solution for retailers.…

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    Jobintree.com

    Lancé en avril 2008, Jobintree a su s’imposer grâce à son approche par métier novatrice dans le monde des sites emplois, devenant rapidement un acteur incontournable du secteur parmi les sites emploi les plus visités.. Cette tendance s’est renforcée en 2009. En effet, Jobintree a su convaincre les annonceurs (ayant déjà séduit plus de 600…

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    Kickstarter.com

    What is Kickstarter?  Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative projects. We believe that: • A good idea, communicated well, can spread fast and wide. • A large group of people can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement. Kickstarter is powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully-funded or…

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    Feedburner.com

    FeedBurner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner was founded by Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski, and Matt Shobe. Costolo, a University of Michigan graduate, became CEO of Twitter in 2010. FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers.

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    Vizify.com

    Vizify is based on a simple idea: making a great first impression online matters, whether you’re seeking work, clients, to network or just interested in meeting new people. Vizify provides a simple way for people to effortlessly capture, present, and display the best and most interesting parts of themselves, by taking advantage of all the…

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    Picknik.com

    Picnik is photo editing online, in your browser. It gives real people photo editing superpowers. It’s fast, easy, and offers tons of powerful tools, artistic effects, stickers, frames, touch-ups, scrapbooking tools and more. And that’s all for free. There’s even more available for Picnik Premium members: More tools, advanced effects, seasonal content all year long…

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    SoundCloud

    SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform which allows collaboration, promotion and distribution of audio recordings SoundCloud was originally started in Stockholm, Sweden, but was established in Berlin, Germany in August, 2007 by sound designer Alex Ljung and artist Eric Wahlforss. It had the intention of allowing musicians to share recordings with each other, but later…