Former Techcrunch editor Ouriel Ohayon is reporting via The Globes that social search Delver has been acquired by Sears. Yes, the powertools and "sponsored conversations" company Sears. The acquisition price for the Israeli-based startup was not disclosed. Ouriel notes that the price is probably not that high as the company was running out of cash.
Delver raised $4 million in a Series A round. About a month ago the company announced that they would either sell or close the company as they were unable to raise another round of funding the tune of $6-8 million.
The Globes notes, "Delver co-founder and CEO Liad Agmon will move to the US and become a VP at Sears. Full story...
I am a happy Yahoo Mail user. I’ve been a Yahoo Mail user since the early days. I also know that I am a bad tech blogger and early adopter because I don’t use (and make love to) Gmail.
This morning we included a link in our startup updates to a post on the VerticalResponse blog. The company provides email marketing services for businesses.
Two years ago nextNY held the first MatchupCamp. Check out our review of the event including photos and videos.
Yesterday we took a look at two paid posts from British Airways run through the Izea SocialSpark program.
I’ve flown on British Airways three times and all three flights went well. The last time on British Airways was in 2006 and was a short hop from Venice to London and I remember the crew making the trip smooth for someone who really doesn’t enjoy flying.
Earlier this month we reported on Canadian car sharing service CityFlitz as their website was removed and some customers were upset that they received no response to their customer service emails regarding their security deposits.
German media company ProSiebenSat.1 Group has announced the launch of a new startup investment program.
Over the past month or so, New York State has started rolling out a new lottery machine at lottery retailers around the state.
It seems the hot Twitter news of the day is that the service might be slowing in U.S. growth. You can read the Twitter stats story on Mashable and TheNextWeb.
As I’ve mentioned a few times before, I am stuck with a satellite Internet connection at home. DSL and FIOS are distant fantasies, cable comes to the end of my driveway and stops (they refuse to run it any further, and won’t let me run it myself) and a T1 line is just way out [.