http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/slide Blog Articles Tagged with 'slide' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1142513?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Some venture capital investors don t seem to be unfazed by the current downturn in the financial markets and over all economy. Today, Redwood City, Calif.-based RockYou announced that it has raised another $17 million from Softbank and SK Telec... Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:43:15 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1142513?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1106484?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Facebook is continuing its war on Facebook apps that push the limits on acceptable user interaction. Last week it was Slide s Top Friends App, which it briefly suspended. Later Facebook also suspended another popular app, Social Me.This time they ... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:04:01 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1106484?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1099294?rsstype=tag&tag=slide In an interview published this morning in the Financial Times, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he wouldn t be looking to pick up any other Internet companies just because the Yahoo deal failed. One can only imagine how far shares of Facebook would... Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:44:58 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1099294?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1100351?rsstype=tag&tag=slide In an interview published this morning in the Financial Times, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he wouldn t be looking to pick up any other Internet companies just because the Yahoo deal failed. One can only imagine how far shares of Facebook would... Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:44:58 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1100351?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1088649?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Back in January Slide pulled off a whopper of a financing for an effectively pre-revenue startup: $50 million, valuing the company at a cool half billion dollars. Not bad.No one was surprised to hear that arch-rival RockYou would soon close a big rou... Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:00:23 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1088649?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1088620?rsstype=tag&tag=slide RockYou, the maker of applications such as SuperWall and Likeness that ride on top of social networks, has raised $35 million in a round of venture funding lead by DCM. We confirmed with a company spokesperson that previous investors Partech, Lightsp... Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:05:26 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1088620?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1085658?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Slide is a peculiar Web 2.0 company. Perhaps the most interesting thing about it is founder Max Levchin, who co-founded PayPal and has been profiled as a workaholic by the New York Times. Its operations themselves aren t terribly fascinating: they ... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:14:40 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1085658?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1076801?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Max Levchin, well known for being a co-founder of both Paypal and Slide, as well as for imitating Tom Cruise on The GigaOM Show, has just become the first person to get on the cover of magazine Portfolio. The magazine s editors recently threw... Fri, 23 May 2008 17:16:51 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1076801?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1075672?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Max Levchin, well known for being a co-founder of both Paypal and Slide, as well as for imitating Tom Cruise on The GigaOM Show, has just become the first person to get on the cover of magazine Portfolio. The magazine s editors recently threw... Fri, 23 May 2008 16:26:16 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1075672?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1052206?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Meet Watercooler, a startup developing social network applications for all the usual suspects - Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, and Friendster - that allow fans to rally around their favorite sports teams and TV shows.The Mountain View-based firm raise... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:30:45 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1052206?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1049332?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Putting a value on private companies is hard enough for insiders and venture capitalists who have full access to the company s financial statements. When outsiders try to do it, even well-informed ones, it is nothing more than a guessing game. Bu... Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:35:48 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1049332?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1025536?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Multiple fake reviews for the Funwall App on Facebook have been deleted after it was discovered that the reviews came from employees of Slide, the apps owner.Fake reviews seem to be part of the norm these days, however most companies are smart enough... Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:16:36 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1025536?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1012419?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Dow Jones VentureSource put out some data on Web 2.0 deals in the U.S. earlier this week that I ve put together into these charts. The first one above shows how much money has been invested in Web 2.0 startups so far this decade. In 2007, venture... Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:30:02 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1012419?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1009435?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Investment banker Michael Montgomery has his chance to prove he s still relevant in the tech banking world if this VentureBeat story is true. The rumor is that Meebo has hired Montgomery & Co. to represent them in a new fundraising round that may v... Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:05:07 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1009435?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/985888?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Selling advertising on entertainment-focused widgets such as Scrabulous or Zombies is about as easy as spinning straw into gold, yet there are plenty of people trying. And there are ways of generating revenue through specially focused widgets designe... Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:00:57 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/985888?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/976025?rsstype=tag&tag=slide On Monday AOL will announce the acquisition of San Diego-based Goowy, a startup founded in late 2004 and which launched, incidentally, in my living room in late 2006 (we had a TechCrunch party where Goowy, Meebo, Sphere and other startups launched). ... Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:59:19 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/976025?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/974895?rsstype=tag&tag=slide It should come as no surprise that the ad inventory on social networks like Facebook are not worth much. A new offer by Lookery, a startup that places ads on social apps inside Facebook and Bebo, is offering a guaranteed ad rate of 12.5 cents for ev... Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:10:14 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/974895?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/974251?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Google and Facebook are fighting hard to hire this years crop of computer science graduates, we ve heard, and ground zero is Stanford. Most of the class of 2008 already have job offers even though graduation is months away. Last year, salaries of u... Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:36:31 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/974251?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/971766?rsstype=tag&tag=slide Last year was supposed to be the Year of the Widget, according to Newsweek, but only in the last few weeks has the beginning of a real monetization story emerged.The story has consistently been framed as an issue of getting users rather than making m... Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:00:25 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/971766?rsstype=tag&tag=slide http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/971433?rsstype=tag&tag=slide It s like the Silicon Valley version of the boy who cried wolf. The IAC-Flixster deal, that is. Earlier this month, TechCrunch and The Wall Street Journal s Deal Journal blog reported on rumors that Barry Diller s IAC was buying Flixster... Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:30:26 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/971433?rsstype=tag&tag=slide