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...
Let’s start this journey by taking a ride back in time. Some of you are too young to remember the Internet of the early 90s.
A couple of weeks ago, technology blog Techcrunch was hacked. At the time of the hacking they were using the Rackspace Cloud Sites service as their hosting provider.
The Saints won the SuperBowl which shows anything is possible! Below are some of the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board.
Many of the startups I speak with do a good bit of traveling around the country and the world showing off their services.
The weatherman lied – there is no snow. The big game aka Superbowl is this weekend. Why not read up on some great Entrepreneurial posts?
Hiring the First 5 Engineers: What Sort of People Do You Want on Your Team? – Elad Gil
Bootstrap or Die – Lessons Learned From a Web Startup’s Murder/Suicide – Bootstrappy
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Tonight at the IAC headquarters building in NYC, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the winners of the Big Apps competition.
The Apple iPhone developer’s blog has an interesting entry from yesterday that discusses location-based advertising in iPhone apps.
Could this be the next generation library?
Twitter replies:
oo00_Mr_K_00oo no .. because you can’t “borrow” books through the apple iBook store ;(
immunetologic - No, the iBooks store will be.
Sesame Street has launched a new iPhone application aimed at kids called Elmo’s Monster Maker.
While browsing some blogs today that are hosted on Wordpress.com (as opposed to the self-hosted Wordpress version), I noticed something new.