Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Wikio http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 19:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Wikio Raises $25 Million In Funding, Renames To EBuzzing http://pulse2.com/2011/08/31/wikio-raises-25-million-in-funding-renames-to-ebuzzing/ http://pulse2.com/2011/08/31/wikio-raises-25-million-in-funding-renames-to-ebuzzing/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:40:00 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=50719 Continue reading →]]>
Wikio Group is a company that is known for running a news engine called Wikio. The company has raised $25 million in funding and has renamed the company to EBuzzing. Investors include Gimv, who put in $14.5 million and Wikio founder Pierre Chappaz.

EBuzzing is a Wikio property that made $15 million in 2010 revenue. They expect to make $25 million this year. The company employs 160 people across various European cities. Ebuzzing CEO Pierre Chappaz said that the funding will allow them to speed up their growth throughout Europe.

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]]> http://pulse2.com/2011/08/31/wikio-raises-25-million-in-funding-renames-to-ebuzzing/feed/ 0 Netvibes Co-CEO Leaves To Work Fully On Wikio http://pulse2.com/2007/07/04/netvibes-co-ceo-leaves-to-work-fully-on-wikio/ http://pulse2.com/2007/07/04/netvibes-co-ceo-leaves-to-work-fully-on-wikio/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:45:34 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/2007/07/04/netvibes-co-ceo-leaves-to-work-fully-on-wikio/ Continue reading →]]> Wikio & Netvibes LogoDue to a disagreement between Tariq Krim and Pierre Chappaz about the future of Netvibes[1]and Netvibes Universe efforts, Chappaz left Netvibes (while remaining a shareholder) to work fully on Wikio[2]. Wikio is a news submission website with a voting system that is similar to Digg.

Through Wikio, users can customize the types of news they prefer to see though. How so? Users can create new tabs and then select tags or add tags that relate to the news they want to read (see screen shot below).

Wikio Screen Shot 1
Does Chappaz’s departure mean bad news for Netvibes? Not likely. I think Chappaz did the right thing because whenever there are disagreements between upper management, business can only go down-hill from there. Isn’t that right, Semel?[3]

To truly advance take any web company to the next level, upper management must have similar visions. This is probably why PageFlakes (Netvibes’ competitor) appointed Dan Cohen, Yahoo!’s former Head of My Yahoo![4]

And I think Wikio has potential.  If Chappaz does to Wikio what he did for Netvibes, Kevin Rose and the Digg team should watch their back.

[1] Netvibes.com
[2] Wikio.com

References:
[3] Wired 15.02: How Yahoo Blew It
[4] GigaOM: Netvibes, now with one less CEO

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