Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Esther Dyson http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 17:08:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 AOL Rumored To Be In Talks For An Acquisition Of Outside.in http://pulse2.com/2011/01/26/aol-rumored-to-be-in-talks-for-an-acquisition-of-outside-in/ http://pulse2.com/2011/01/26/aol-rumored-to-be-in-talks-for-an-acquisition-of-outside-in/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:00:55 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=42160 Continue reading →]]>
Rumor has is that AOL is in talks to acquire local news aggregation company Outside.in. The talks may fall apart since it is in early stages according to BusinessInsider. Steven Johnson founded Outside.in in 2006. Investors in Outside.in include Union Square Ventures, Marc Andreessen, John Borthwick, Esther Dyson, and CNN. If AOL does end up acquiring Outside.in, it is likely that they will roll the technology into Patch.com.

]]> http://pulse2.com/2011/01/26/aol-rumored-to-be-in-talks-for-an-acquisition-of-outside-in/feed/ 1 Certify.com Raises $1.9 Million From Angel Investors Esther Dyson and William Ryan http://pulse2.com/2009/09/25/certify-com-raises-1-9-million-from-angel-investors-esther-dyson-and-william-ryan/ http://pulse2.com/2009/09/25/certify-com-raises-1-9-million-from-angel-investors-esther-dyson-and-william-ryan/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:14:24 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=20775 Continue reading →]]> certify-logo
Certify.com is a company that focuses on expense management which has just raised $1.9 million from angel investors. The angel investors include Esther Dyson and former TD BankNorth CEO William Ryan. Certify.com sells portable scanners for $139 that will automatically upload receipts to your Certify Wallet e-mail address. The company also has an iPhone application that gets added to your Certify Wallet once you e-mail the picture to data@certify.com.

For individuals, having a Certify Wallet costs $5 per month. Corporate plans have a variety of options. The corporate expense manager has a dashboard in order to track the analytics around the receipts. These services are especially useful for those who spend a great deal of time traveling around for company purposes. I would not be surprised if major consulting firms pick up on using this service soon.

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At the beginning of the year, Facebook filed a complaint against Power.com accusing them of copyright and trademark infringement and unlawful competition.  Power.com was attempting to act as an aggregated social network where users can enter login information for MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Hi5, Orkut, and Facebook and all of their contact information would be updated at once amongst all the networks.

Facebook blocked access and sued them in January as a result.  Now Power.com has responded with their own lawsuit alleging that Facebook is trying to monopolize the social networking industry.

Power.com started in Brazil and tried to capture the U.S. audience this past December with help from investors such as DFJ and Esther Dyson.  Power.com wanted “to be the center of the world” according to CEO Steve Vachani.  Power.com has a huge spike in traffic, but then it died out.

At one point there was 8 million users and just last month there were only 14,000 U.S. users that visited their website according to analytics web company Compete.com.  Power.com claims that they received 250,000 unique visitors in the U.S. last month.

Power.com stated that Facebook is stifling competition by blocking access to their service. But Facebook made a statement saying that they made many attempts to work with Power.com but claims that they continued to put user data at risk.

[via NYT]

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