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Yahoo has been rumored to be selling Paris-based comparative shopping site Kelkoo for some time now, and it appears that they have found a buyer. Yahoo acquired Kelkoo in 2004 for ?475 million.
The company has been sold to a UK-based private equity firm called Jamplant Ltd for something less than ?100 million, according to sources with knowledge of the deal.
Ex-Kelkoo CEO Pierre Chappaz announced the news on his blog, and a copy of the internal email announcing the acquisition is below.
The...
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Some apps wander around the wilderness for a while until they can find the perfect home. For Evernote, that home is the iPhone. The note-taking, picture-capturing, voice-recording, handwriting-recognizing universal memory service has been under development for years and launched last February in private beta on the PC. But it wasn't until May 29 that it debuted on the iTunes store as an iPhone app. That's when it started to take off.
Now Evernote has 512,000 registered users, who have...
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Color me impressed with this one: Prague-based 360 Cities, a network of 'Virtual Reality' photographers promoting high-resolution spherical imagery, has integrated its portfolio of stunning 360° panorama shots into the Featured Preview Layer for Google Earth.
A collection of the panoramas just became visible automatically to every user of the free 3D earth visualization software, and the rest of the 360cities database, which is nearly 10,000 spherical images strong, has been added to the...
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The rumor has been going on for some time now, but we are hearing that Yahoo just sold Kelkoo to a UK based private equity firm. The news has been broken by ex-Kelkoo co founder, Pierre Chappaz and a copy of the internal email announcing the acquisition is available here
The transaction is supposed to be sub 100 millions euros
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Even before "The Wizard" enchanted and inspired the gaming generation, gamers have sought that final prize: making a living playing video games. Unfortunately, dreams of professional-gamerism have been shown to be as elusive as dreams of being a professional gambler. Luckily, startup BringIt is attempting to make both those dreams a little more attainable. BringIt made the connection between the huge online gambling market and the exploding online gaming community, and has created a site where...
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I took some shots of 2.2 in action. The walking directions would have been great for the past two weeks - I've had so much trouble using car-based GPS in walking/biking cities. Streetview is also great for cities like New York but it's very limited right now - there was no information for Paris, for example. The podcast download is also really nice to have. An impressively end-user-oriented update by Apple this time around.
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We've received two reports tonight of users having their email notification settings on Facebook deleted. They were notified at login that there was a problem, and told to head over to the Notifications page to reset them.
At least one user is angry about it. The other, who sent the screenshot above, was more contemplative. He suggests someone simply forgot to back up a table before implementing an enhancement. I checked my account, and it's fine.
Whatever happened, it's a small...
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A couple of weeks ago I headed over to Belgium as part of my ongoing TechCrunch Euro Tour, to get a taste of the local web/mobile entrepreneur community (BTW, come to the London and Helsinki events soon). I hooked-up with another TechCrunch writer, Robin Wauters, who had kindly arranged a TechCrunch Belgium meetup in Gent. Gent is quickly becoming one of the main places to startup in that country, as it's a short drive from Brussels (which has the main airport and the excellent Eurostar), but...
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Bucket tests and experimental products are one thing. But to mess with the real Google search is serious stuff. Why did they do it?
Google's overall search share has grown substantially this year (and all other years since it went live). Their share of search advertising dollars is likely even higher.
The changes Google made to search today certainly make it more interactive and social. I can now write comments on search results, and read comments from everyone about TechCrunch (or anything...
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When we announced the 7 finalists of Amazon Web Services' Startup Challenge two weeks ago, we dubbed Yieldex an "online ad optimization engine for Web publishers". It's time to take a closer look at what that means, because the company has just been awarded the top prize in the contest, bringing home $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in services credits plus an investment offer from Amazon.com.
Yieldex has a solution for managing ad inventory, enabling Web publishers to allocate advertising campaigns...
