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| 11.03.2024 | Did you know Ramaphosa’s father was a retired policeman? | Messy! A Democratic Alliance appeal for US observers to monitor South Africa’s elections has turned into a political squabble. Image: X/@PresidencyZA
Did you know that President Ramaphosa’s father, Samuel, was a retired policeman?
Ramaphosa... |
| 07.02.2024 | How Satellite Authorisation Systems connects to Die Antwoord | Instagram / Die Antwoord
Satellite Authorisation Systems (SAS) isn’t very hip-hop, but might be connected to the group Die Antwoord – and the elaborate backstory tied to its one-half member Watkin Tudor Jones.
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| 20.06.2023 | Photos show how 700 of Titanic's 2,200 passengers were saved by the Carpathia when the ship sank 111 years ago | News Photos show how 700 of Titanic's 2,200 passengers were saved by the Carpathia when the ship sank 111 years ago
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| 14.08.2022 | Deceased Hungarian aristocrats' treasure trove fills West End condo | Article content
There is a large bench-box in the hallway near the front door of a condo in Vancouver’s West End, perfect for storing shoes. |
| 13.06.2017 | От кондитерской фабрики до одного из ведущих игроков мирового рынка упаковки | История Huhtamäki.
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| 04.07.2013 | Feeling Nostalgic? Shoebox Lets You Scan Old Photos With Your Phone, Update Your Ancestry.com Family Tree | Shoebox, the mobile photo archiving app Ancestry.com acquired from San Francisco-based 1000memories last fall, has now gone live at its new home. The updated version of the app, Shoebox 3.0, still allows users to scan in their old non-digit... |
| 29.11.2012 | MyHeritage Acquires Geni.com and Raises $25M | MyHeritage, an online family history network, has acquired rival Geni.com and closed a new $25M funding.
The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), with participation from existing investors Index Ventures and Accel Partners.
In ... |
| 28.11.2012 | MyHeritage acquires Geni and $25M to build family tree of the whole world | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
MyHeritage, a genealogy website where people can ... |
| 28.11.2012 | Funding Daily: Wacky Wednesday | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
What do family trees and mobile app discovery hav... |
| 28.11.2012 | MyHeritage snaps up Geni; raises $25M | Geni's thesis is to make a world family tree, will use MyHeritage's global reach to achieve goal
I moved to the Bay Area in January of this year, and spent my first three months in my new city unemployed and living in a hotel, answering job... |
| 28.11.2012 | All In The Family: MyHeritage Buys Former Yammer Stablemate Geni.com In An 8-Figure Deal, Raises $25M | A big day for online genealogy sites: MyHeritage, an Israel-based site that lets people research and their family histories and make family trees, has raised $25 million in new funding, and it has bought out one of its rivals, Geni.com — th... |
| 25.06.2012 | Memory Lane: Watch The Moment In 2008 When Yammer Launched As A Standalone Business | Like so many things that go on to have big success, Yammer, the enterprise social networking company that was just officially acquired by Microsoft for a cool $1.2 billion, had an inauspicious start.
At first, actually, Yammer was not inten... |
| 29.02.2012 |
Yammer Dwarfs Parent Geni In Fundraising Round
| In the case of the kid getting much (much) larger than its parent, Yammer, the one time spinout of Los Angeles-based genealogy and family tree website Geni, has now squarely out-raised venture capital than its parent firm, saying Wednesday ... |
| 14.01.2012 | A City Is A Startup: The Rise Of The Mayor-Entrepreneur | Editor’s note: This post is authored by guest contributor Jon Bischke. Jon is a founder of RG Labs and is an advisor to several startups. You can follow Jon on Twitter here.
On stage at last month’s Le Web conference Shervin Pishevar, a Man... |
| 13.10.2011 | Yammer is Not Just Facebook for Enterprises: A Deep Dive with CEO David Sacks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It took enterprise social networking startup Yammer 18 months to gain its first million users, nine months to add its second million, and only six months to add its third mill... |
| 23.06.2010 | Geni Goes Global With 20 New Languages And A Crowdsourced Translation Tool | Genealogy site Geni is going global today with the addition of its site translated into 22 new languages, including Spanish, German, French, and Hebrew. The site will add dozens more languages in the coming weeks.
Noah Tutak, President of G... |
| 09.05.2010 | Happy Mothers Day! Get Her A Geni Family Tree Poster | A couple of weeks ago Yammer CEO David Sacks came by the office to give us some news. Sacks, who is also the CEO of genealogy site Geni, also told me about a new product Geni is launching; – family tree posters.
There are two 16″ × 20″ vers... |
| 02.02.2010 | MyHeritage Buys Germany's OSN, Now 540 Million Profiles Strong | Israeli genealogy site MyHeritage has completed its third acquisition, buying Germany’s OSN. OSN operates seven genealogy sites including Verwandt.de in Germany, Moikrewni.pl in Poland and Dynastree.com in the US. It was launched in 2007 ju... |
| 02.02.2010 | MyHeritage buys Germany's OSN, now 540 million profiles strong | [Israel] Israeli genealogy site MyHeritage has completed its third acquisition, buying Germany’s OSN. OSN operates seven genealogy sites including Verwandt.de in Germany, Moikrewni.pl in Poland and Dynastree.com in the US. It was launched i... |
| 18.01.2010 | Yammer Founder David Sacks Joins Scribd Board Of Directors | Scribd, a site that lets users and publishers upload and share documents, has a new board member. David Sacks, the founder of Geni and Yammer (and former COO of PayPal), joins the company as a director as of today.
Scribd had 8.1 million un... |
| 15.01.2010 | Is Your Registration Process Scaring Away Users? | When you run a community site, your registration and minimum profile requirements are like the front porch to your home. As technology bloggers we trick-or-treat to at least a dozen sites per day and when you make your porch scary, we’d jus... |
| 09.08.2009 | Hey, Where's Twitter For Families? | Since I joined TechCrunch I’ve seen more Twitter clones and derivatives then I’d care to remember, most of which haven’t really gone anywhere. But there are a few gems that have managed to tackle markets that Twitter has, for whatever reaso... |
| 17.07.2009 | Cat’s in the Cradle: Family Websites Long Forgotten? | Sampa, the start up company best known for allowing families to upload and privately share pictures, blog posts and other milestones is closing its doors. In a letter sent to RWW, CEO Paul Gross explains, “There is no big story behind it, j... |
| 05.07.2009 | Way Too Competitive: Tech Gurus Flock To World Series Of Poker | 6,000 or so people have congregated at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas for this year’s World Series of Poker to fight for $50 million or so that will be split among the last 10% of players left standing. Among them are a number of tech startup e... |
| 26.05.2009 | The Awesome Potential Of Retweet | Editor’s note: This is a guest post by David Sacks, the Founder and CEO of Yammer and Geni. Previously he was the COO of PayPal and produced the Academy Award-nominated movie “Thank You For Smoking.” Sacks says he’s incorporating the retwee... |
| 30.03.2009 | CRV raises $320M — proves not all venture capital has dried up | Charles River Ventures, a venture capital firm that has invested in web companies like Twitter, but also software and networking companies such as BigBand Networks and Netezza, has raised $320 million in fresh money.
The new fund, CRV’s 14t... |
| 28.03.2009 | Risk Aversion And The Perils Of Selling Too Early (Israeli Startups, Part II) | Right now I’m at an un-conference called KinnerNet. It’s hosted by famed Israel entrepreneur Yossi Vardi and set near the Sea of Galilee. Funny thing: There are a few hundred entrepreneurs here, mostly Israeli. And only one has said somethi... |
| 10.03.2009 | Risque German Game Phenomenon Tries To Repeat Success In English | Most of our readers have probably never heard of Pennergame, a controversial German game that asks players to rise from virtual homelessness to great wealth, by any means necessary. The text-based game has proven immensely popular in German... |
| 19.01.2009 | GoodGuide And Geni Land New Funding | PEHub has reported a handful of new unannounced funding rounds based on recent SEC filings. Included among them are ancestry site Geni, which raised $5 million in Series C funding with investors including Charles River Ventures and Founders... |
| 19.01.2009 | Geni Gets Another $5 Million for Social Networking and Genealogy Site: What About Yammer? | According to Dan Primack on peHub, Geni, the popular genealogy and social networking site founded by PayPal’s David Sacks, just raised another $5 million in a Series C round backed by Charles River Ventures and The Founders Fund. In early 2... |
| 19.11.2008 | Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It's Done | A team of ex-Googlers, with backing from Y Combinator, the Friendfeed founders and others, have created what might be both the ugliest and most useful group productivity app we’ve seen. Etherpad, a new product from Appjet, launches this mor... |
| 03.10.2008 | Thank you TechCrunch Sponsors | Without our sponsors TechCrunch would not be possible. Accordingly, we want to thank the following sponsors for their support.
Loopt, a cross-platform, location enabled, mobile social network, and our partner in the TechCrunch mobile social... |
| 23.09.2008 | Fast exit – UK's Kindo acquired by Israel's MyHeritage | UK based, Kindo.com a family tree service, has been acquired by the Israeli based MyHeritage, which was recently funded by Accel and Index Ventures. The size of the deal was not disclosed, but it’s a fast exit for Kindo which only launched ... |
| 16.09.2008 | Academia.edu: A Geni For Researchers | Collaboration has long been one of the most fundamental components of science. From handwritten letters and essays to professional publications like Science and Nature, scientists rely on each other to test their theories and to help formul... |
| 03.09.2008 | Geni's Quest Toward One World Family Tree | Geni founder David Sacks has said all along that he wants to create a single family tree for the whole world. Based on some usage stats the company will announce on Thursday, they’re moving towards that goal: over a million unique visitors ... |
| 22.08.2008 | Thank You TechCrunch Sponsors | O’Reilly Conferences and TechWeb are presenting Web 2.0 Expo, and are offering TechCrunch readers $100 off of the conference with the discount code “webny08po1”. Thank You O’Reilly.
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| 08.08.2008 | Thank You TechCrunch Sponsors | Sponsors make TechCrunch possible, and so we wish to thank the following sponsors for their support.
Seesmic, the video micro-blogging platform. Seesmic recently integrated its service with Link.Tv and announced that users can choose which ... |
| 01.08.2008 | CrunchBase in CrunchBar and Thanks to All Our Sponsors | Thank you to our terrific sponsors, who make TechCrunch possible.
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| 26.06.2008 | Why iYomu, a Social Network for Old People, Expired | iYomu was a social network designed for adults, that launched in August 2007 with a splashy $1 million competition. Less than a year later, the company has closed its doors. Turns out adults didn’t want a separate social network after all, ... |
| 19.06.2008 | Gannett Gets Cozy With Cozi | Cozi, an intriguing Seattle based startup that’s most easily described as a social network for a family unit, is announcing an investment and business deal with newspaper conglomerate Gannett Co. later this morning. The size of the investme... |
| 22.04.2008 | Microsoft's Mesh Revealed—Sync All Apps And All Files To All Devices (As Long As They're Windows) | Ray Ozzie first hinted at it during a keynote speech last March. But tonight Microsoft is finally launching a preview beta of Live Mesh, a new Windows Live platform for syncing files and, eventually, applications across different devices. (... |
| 15.04.2008 | 2,100 People Party In LA With PopSugar And TechCrunch, Raise $13k For OpenId And DataPortability | The PopSugar/TechCrunch Geek Goes Chic party in Los Angeles is over. The final count – over 1,300 paid attendees plus another 800 on the private guest list. In all, over 2,100 people attended the event last Thursday.
It was our largest even... |
| 10.04.2008 | Final Details For Tonight's Sold-Out PopSugar/TechCrunch MeetUp in LA (For The 2,000 Of You Who Are Coming) | Tonight’s TechCrunch MeetUp in LA co-hosted with PopSugar is sold out. For the 2,000 of you coming (and 500 on the wait list), here are the final details that you need to know.
MySpace will be spinning MySpace Music artists for us all night... |
| 26.03.2008 | Good UI Design: Make It Easy, Show Me You Care | When researching FuseCal this morning, one of the things that made it so appealing to try was the fact that you could just enter in a URL and see the service in action right away. No sign-up forms, no logins. This got us thinking about UI d... |
| 07.02.2008 | You've stalked your friends, now get a newsfeed from your family | London-based Kindo, a social network aimed at your living family-tree, has won undisclosed seed funding from Estonia-based Ambient Sound Investments, reports TechCrunch UK. (Why are they Estonian based? Because they are formed from Skype’s ... |
| 07.02.2008 | Kindo wins seed funding to map your living family tree | The area of family tree social networks is growing as people move from seeing the benefits of social networking for business and friends through to using it to map their family social graph as well. Ancestry.com is about ancestors and Geni.... |
| 08.01.2008 | German Geni Clone Verwandt Raises Second Funding Round | Genealogy social network Verwandt has raised an undisclosed series B from Hasso Plattner Ventures (HPV), said to be in the “multi-million-dollars” but otherwise undisclosed. They closed their first round in July 2007 from Hamburg-based Neuh... |
| 28.11.2007 | Geni Clone Growing A Lot Faster Than Geni | Family genealogy and social newtork Geni got to five million profiles in the first five months after launch. Their early growth propelled them to a $100 million valuation and a lot of positive press.
In August the inevitable German clone la... |
| 14.11.2007 | Get Your Family Together At Sampa | When we covered the slate of companies helping people chronicle family stories and milestones, we left out a quiet but excellent Redmond, Washington startup called Sampa.
They aren’t new, and we’ve covered them before. The reason we left th... |
| 17.10.2007 | Ancestry.com launches DNA testing, gets $300M investment | updated
The Generations Network, operator of Ancestry.com has just received $300 million from Spectrum Equity Investors, a Silicon Valley buyout firm, which will take a majority stake in the company.
Ancestry.com has also just launched DNA ... |
| 27.08.2007 | Roundup: Hipihi, Twitter-Gmail, Vadver, iFamily, HeyNielsen, Gphone, Bloglines | Here’s the latest action:
China’s virtual worlds censored— China’s virtual world Hipihi reflects the real-world culture of its users. Players can have virtual sex in private rooms, but can’t engage in frank political talk. GigaOm has a revi... |
| 10.08.2007 | Roundup: Veoh sues, MySpace’s tiny profit, Nirvanix, Wikipedia’s color-coding, more | Here’s the latest action:
Veoh Networks files preemptive suit against Universal Music Group — Veoh, the San Diego video start-up we’ve written about, said it filed the suit to assert its rights as a copyright-compliant company after UMG thr... |
| 06.07.2007 | So You Sold Your Company For Millions, What Next? | What would you do next if you sold your company to an Internet giant for millions of dollars? Existing examples show 4 different types of Internet millionaires:
Serial entrepreneurs – keep doing the same
Dreamers – expand their horizons
Mid... |
| 05.07.2007 | Roundup: Virtual sex bed suit, Geni, Gay.com, Netvibes, Helio and more | Here’s the latest (ahem) action:
Second Life avatar sues another avatar, over virtual sex bed — We should have predicted this. Second Life entrepreneur Kevin Alderman has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Second Life resident V... |
| 20.05.2007 | Geni: Earning That $100 million Valuation | When genealogy site Geni announced that it had raised a venture round from Charles River Ventures valuing the two month old startup at $100 million, more than a few eyebrows were raised. For the last couple of months, people have referred t... |
| 08.03.2007 |
Geni Raises $10M
| Los Angeles-based Geni, an operator of an online, wiki-based geneaology web site for mapping your family tree, said Wednesday that it has raised $10M in additional funding from Charles River Ventures. As part of the funding, George Zachary ... |
| 07.03.2007 | Geni raises $10M at whopper valuation, to let you create family tree | Geni, the fast-growing Web site that allows people to create family trees, has raised $10 million second round of financing, led by Charles River Ventures. The Los Angeles company says the company company is valued, after the investment, at... |
| 07.03.2007 | Explain This To Me | That’s how the emails generally start. “Fred, explain this to me”.
I got a bunch of them yesterday pointing to the reported $100mm valuation being placed on Geni.com in it’s recent financing.
Things like this are not explainable to be hones... |
| 06.03.2007 | Roundup: USA Today stiffs Google, and Google gossip, Reuters, Geni, Rockyou… | Updated
Here’s the latest action:
USA Today launches new social networking features, but stiffs Google — The newspaper has offered an array of new features, letting registered readers have their own profile pages, where they can recommend a... |
| 20.01.2007 | Geni Overwhelmed With Early Popularity | Rumors of the new startup by former PayPal COO David Sacks to be called Geni started a couple of weeks ago. A few days later, on January 16, Geni launched. It allows people to create quick and beautiful family trees, got a flood of early at... |
| 16.01.2007 | Geni Launches | David Sacks’ new startup Geni, which we wrote about last week, has gone live.
The initial product is a very easy to use Flash tool to create a profile and a family tree – including siblings, spouses, cousins, aunts and uncles, and their fam... |
| 16.01.2007 | Geni aims to build family tree for whole world | Geni, a new start-up in Los Angeles, wants to do for families what LinkedIn does for business contacts: Create one giant tree that shows you who is connected to who.
The world may be getting smaller; Geni, if successful, will make it tinier... |
| 12.01.2007 | PayPal, Pulp Fiction and Geni | David Sacks apparently has something left to prove. He was an executive at PayPal. After their $1.5 billion acquisition by eBay in 2002, he then went on to create Room 9 Entertainment, a production company that produced and financed the (re... |
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