| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.02.2014 | The Rise And Future Of The New York Startup Ecosystem | Contributor Contributor
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The dinner that destroyed Gawker
Author Ryan Holiday on “the nature of world-altering success”
Like many who have been active in the New York startup ecosystem over the past decade, I a... |
| 14.11.2013 | Pinterest Launches Its First API, And It’s All About Big Brands: Zappos, Walmart, Disney In First User Group | Pinterest is today, at long last, releasing its first API for developers, which will let third-party sites embed Pinterest pins, and make it easier to post content into Pinterest itself. First partners for the service are a list of big bran... |
| 04.01.2011 | Nintendo's Health Warning on 3D Game: Good PR | It's a killer headline: Nintendo (NTYDO) says its upcoming Nintendo 3DS handheld may be harmful to young children's eyesight. While critics feel like it is dampening the device's current buzz, Nintendo's honesty now will help it avoid pain ... |
| 31.10.2010 | Glam Media Set to Overtake AOL: Verticals vs Portals | The latest comScore Top 50 Properties (U.S.) statistics make sobering reading for AOL, the former king of the portals in the 90s and early part of this century. While AOL is the number 5 ranked U.S. web property, with 104 million monthly un... |
| 04.06.2010 | Not A DONE Deal: NBC Agrees To Sell Women.com, Backs Away, Gets Sued | DONE! Ventures, a Manhattan Beach, California-based Internet marketing and publishing firm, is slapping NBC Universal with a lawsuit after a domain name sales deal went awry.
DONE! CEO Ben Padnos claims NBC Universal accepted an offer to se... |
| 21.05.2010 | Babble lands $3M for online parenting advice | Babble Media, an online magazine and social network for hip, stylish parents, today announced it has secured a second round of funding for $3 million. That brings its total funding to $6.25 million. The funding will be used to build the com... |
| 21.05.2010 | Modern Parenting Site Babble Raises $3 Million | Babble, a magazine and parenting community site, has raised $3 million in Series B Financing led by Village Ventures with Greycroft Partners and iNovia Capital participating. This brings the startup’s total funding to $6 million. The fundin... |
| 21.05.2010 | Babble lands $3M for online parenting advice | 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!
Babble Media, an online magazine and social netwo... |
| 04.05.2010 | HelloCotton targets US with social platform for women's blogs | Paris-based HelloCotton (HelloCoton en Français), a French social platform for discovering and sharing women’s blog content, is launching in the US today.
Initially launch in France in April 2008, the platform counts roughly 3 million month... |
| 26.04.2010 | Do Kids Read Blogs? New Study Aims to Confuse | A new study released earlier this month seems to contradict findings from Pew Internet Project’s February report on the declining blog authorship and blog readership among the youngest generation of online users. Instead of seeing a downwar... |
| 19.03.2010 | Dr. Michael Roizen adds iVillage Health to media outlet roster | Now, Roizen and other Cleveland Clinic professionals will contribute content to iVillage Health, according to WebNewser. iVillage, the online community for women owned by NBC Universal Inc., launched its women’s health site Thursday. It aim... |
| 19.02.2010 | Where Are the Women Bloggers? They’re Driving Your Sales | If an agency has ever pitched you on outreach to women’s blogs and they don’t mention the BlogHer network, there’s something wrong with them. BlogHer and its 2,500 contributing blog affiliates are celebrating the network’s 5 year anniversar... |
| 13.05.2009 | BlogHer, the “community for women who blog,” raises $7M more | BlogHer , a content network for "women who blog,” has raised $7 million more in a third round of financing, giving it a treasure chest to keep it through the downturn as it seeks to become profitable next year.
The Redwood City, Calif.... |
| 20.11.2008 | Meredith gives Real Girls a shot in the arm | Social networking for women got a boost yesterday as media conglomerate Meredith Corp. acquired an undisclosed minority stake in Real Girls Media Network. The San Francisco-based network encompasses about 30 sites and portals for women — no... |
| 16.07.2008 | BlogHer Inks Deal With NBC Universal, Raises $5 Million | BlogHer, an online network of female bloggers, has announced a partnership with iVillage and Women@NBCU, a new content and marketing intiative by NBC Universal.
The partnership includes a $5 million Series B round led by Peacock Equity (a f... |
| 31.03.2008 | Yahoo launches 'Shine' Web site for women | In its plan to concentrate more of its efforts on improving its status as a portal, Yahoo continues to roll out new properties and products, this week adding "Shine," a new Web site for women.
According to Brandon Holley, Shine's ... |
| 19.10.2007 | Glam feasts on Fox’s sales execs, others | Glam, the fast growing woman-focused network of sites and advertising, has poached a key sales exec, John Trimble from Fox Interactive, who ran most of that company’s ad business.
The hiring win is Glam’s biggest personnel coup to date, sai... |
| 27.09.2007 | TV can be good for you… Battle for online women hots up… Chilling out makes you a winner… Virtual worlds are a hit with kids… Identity fraud by phone… | TV can be good for you
Battle for online women hots up
Chilling out makes you a winner
Virtual worlds are a hit with kids
Identity fraud by phone
TV can be good for you
The unhealthy, TV watching couch potato is a commonly accepted stereoty... |
| 25.09.2007 | Sugar swallows Shopstyle — battle for women online continues | updated significantly
Sugar Publishing, a network of woman-focused blogs, has acquired woman’s social shopping site ShopStyle, the latest deal in a fierce competition by a triad of companies hoping to become the leading woman’s Web destinat... |
| 12.08.2007 | Glam to sign $1 billion ad deal — and draws critics | updated
In an era when Web advertising networks are red hot, Glam lays claim to being one of the hottest.
Focused on gathering up female-oriented Web sites, and then selling advertising on their pages, Glam says it is the fastest growing pr... |
| 24.07.2007 | The race to win women’s fashion on the web | Updated
Online sites targeting women are among the hottest on the Web.
Two fast-growing women-centric media sites —Glam and iVillage — are battling it out. And lately, there’s been a lot of action among sites catering to women’s fashion.
In... |
| 24.07.2007 | Nine Ways to Build Your Own Social Network | The news may overflow with stories about the social networking giants, such as Facebook and MySpace, but a horde of companies are doing their best to reduce the fundamental features of these websites to mere commodities. These up-and-coming... |
| 28.06.2007 | Glam roars, sparking battle of the hot women sites | Glam Media, the network of women’s online lifestyle, fashion and other blogs, has surged past iVillage in overall global unique visitors, according to Comscore’s latest data just released.
Glam has scrounged up 30 million unique visitors in... |
| 17.06.2007 | Glam surges to No. 1 women’s property, overtakes iVillage | Glam Media, the Brisbane, Calif. network of women’s online lifestyle, fashion and other blogs, said it has overtaken iVillage to become the number one women’s Web property.
It is also the fastest growing of the top 100 U.S. Web sites, accor... |
| 07.07.2006 | NBC may buy Tribe.net | Rumors are being spread (by Rafat Ali and Susan Mernit) that NBC is buying social networking site Tribe.net. Ali estimates the sale at $50 million or less and says that the media company will use Tribe to power the low-tech women’s networki... |
| - | Dr. Michael Roizen adds iVillage Health to media outlet roster | You can add newly launched iVillage Health to the roster of media outlets for the Cleveland Clinic‘s chief wellness officer, Dr. Michael Roizen.
Roizen is a New York Times best-selling co-author of several “YOU” books, television talk show ... |
