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UberMedia Raises $17.5 Million, Acquires TweetDeck For $30 Million
UberMedia has raised $17.5 million in a round of funding led by Accel Partners with participation from Index Ventures and Revolution Ventures. This puts UberMedia’s valuation at about $40 million. Index Ventures. Over the weekend, Ubermedia also acquired TweetDeck for $30 million in cash and equity. UberMedia head Bill Gross and TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth are focused on building businesses within the Twitter ecosystem. Jim Breyer of Accel will be joining the UberMedia board of directors. Below is the funding press release:
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TweetDeck Working On Making Tweets Longer Through Deck.ly Service
TweetDeck is testing out a new service that would extend beyond Twitter’s 140 character limitation called Deck.ly. This is interesting because Twitter has been filling in holes in their services over the last year by creating products which would directly compete with third parties. Now TweetDeck is working filling in a hole that Twitter has in their whole business model.
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Categories Deck.ly, Iain Dodsworth, TweetDeck
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Steve Jobs Knocks On Google and RIM During Earnings Call, Thus Sparking A Debate
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:CEO) Steve Jobs normally does not appear on earnings calls, but he did this past week. And he decided to go to town on his rivals. Jobs knocked on the “openness” of Google Android and RIM’s tablet computer. This sparked a debate. Below is some of the things that Jobs said and what some of the responses were.
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Categories Andy Rubin, Apple Inc., Iain Dodsworth, Jim Balsillie, Joe Hewitt, Steve Jobs
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Tweetdeck Raises $2 Million
Tweetdeck, my favorite Twitter client has raised additional funding to power their platform. Back in March the company raised about $300,000. The announcement was made by angel investor John Borthwick at the TechCruch Real-Time Stream CrunchUp event last week. TweetDeck is compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux, and the iPhone.
What makes TweetDeck unique is that when the company first started it was a one man show. That man is Iain Dodsworth and now he is fully armed with VC money to take TweetDeck to the next level. If you don’t have a Twitter account and TweetDeck, get it now! you will not regret it.
[via TechCrunch]
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Tweetdeck Rumored To Be Charging $50,000 For Service Integration
TweetDeck is one of the most popular Twitter clients. Iain Dodsworth created TweetDeck to make using Twitter much easier. About a month ago, TweetDeck recently started supporting Facebook status updates. Other services that are built in to TweetDeck also includes TwitScoop, StockTwits, and 12seconds.
At the end of March, TweetDeck raised $300,000 in funding from Betaworks. That is a good amount of funding for a company that is a one-man show. And now that one man has even come up with a revenue model for TweetDeck.
TechCrunch has picked up a rumor that Iain will be charging $50,000 for a service that wants to be added on to TweetDeck. If he gets 6 companies to pay that amount, his revenue will be able to match his first round of funding.
There are already several link shortening services built in to TweetDeck, but Iain may start charging some of the new link shortening services that would like to be added to the Twitter-supporting software. The URL shortening services that come pre-installed in TweetDeck as of right now include bit.ly, digg, is.gd, tinyurl, tr.im, and twurl.
TweetDeck also recently has created branded versions of TweetDeck including a promo for rock band Blink 182.
[via TechCrunch]
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Twitter Adobe AIR Application TweetDeck Raises $300,000
TweetDeck, an application built for aggregating content spread on Twitter and status updates on Facebook built on Adobe AIR has raised $300,000 in funding led by Betaworks. TweetDeck was founded by Iain Dodsworth.
Basically TweetDeck takes all of the information contained in Twitter and places them into manageable columns. For example, you can have a column that displays all the tweets your friends recently sent out, replies that you were tagged in, and direct messages you have received. You can also organize your Twitter contacts into groups using the software.
Most recently the software added a support for Facebook. You can directly update your status on Facebook using Tweetdeck and monitor a column of all the status updates that your friends have sent out. Currently TweetDeck is offered as a free download, but a Pro version may be created down the line.
Yesterday Betaworks announced that they have raised $2 million for Bit.ly. Part of Bit.ly’s growth is responsible by the automatic shortening URL feature built into TweetDeck.
Categories Betaworks, Iain Dodsworth, TweetDeck
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