| 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... |
| 12.04.2011 | TubeMogul Relaunches As A Video Advertising Platform | For the past four years, TubeMogul has built itself up as one of the premier tools for online video producers to syndicate and analyze their online videos across the Web. Last year, it launched a video ad network called PlayTime that took a... |
| 12.04.2011 | (Founder Stories) How Mike Walrath Built Right Media And Sold It For $850 Million | One of the largest exits of a venture-backed company based on the East Coast was when Right Media sold to Yahoo for $850 million in 2007. In this episode of Founder Stories, Mike Walrath tells host Chris Dixon how Right Media got started in... |
| 14.12.2010 | Integrate Raises $4.25 Million For Its Cross-Media Advertising Platform | If you’re an advertiser, you probably know full well that there are a lot of places for you to run your ads: billboards, radio, TV, print, and the web come to mind, each of which can be fine-tuned to hone in on certain verticals and demogra... |
| 02.06.2010 | Google acquires Invite Media to help users with ad exchanges | 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!
Google has reportedly purchased the startup Invit... |
| 02.06.2010 | Google acquires Invite Media to help users with ad exchanges | Google has reportedly purchased the startup Invite Media for around $70 million, according to All Things Digital. The company is a “demand side platform” (DSP) that helps ad buyers navigate advertising exchanges like Google’s AdX service.
B... |
| 01.12.2009 | Yahoo, Right Media To Shut Down DMX Platform End Of January 2010 | Right Media, the ad exchange that was acquired by Yahoo in 2007 for a reported $680 million in cash and stock, has recently seen its founder Michael Walrath walk away from his job as Yahoo’s SVP of Advertising Strategy.
When the announcemen... |
| 16.04.2009 | OpenX Market Opens For Business As An Alternative Online Advertising Marketplace | OpenX, the largest neutral online ad server for website publishers, is finally ready to take the wraps off of OpenX Market, a service that has been in the pipeline for quite some time and was anticipated to make some waves in the digital ad... |
| 26.02.2009 | Fourth-generation ad networks | What do they look like?
There has been a proliferation of online ad networks over the last decade. There are three distinct generations of ad networks, and they have each excelled at a different part of the value chain:
First Generation: Co... |
| 22.08.2008 | Turn Announces Funding for Ad Exchange Platform | Yesterday, online ad exchange contender and Redwood City, California-based, Turn Inc., announced a new round of investment totaling $15 million.
Led by Focus Ventures and joined by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Trident Capital, and Shasta... |
| 25.07.2008 | $26 Million for ContextWeb in Latest Round of Financing | ContextWeb, makers of the contextual online ad exchange, ADSDAQ, announced today a Series D round of financing.
Their fourth round was led by an investment from Investor Growth Capital and additional funding came from all current investors:... |
| 16.05.2008 | WPP is very happy about its Yahoo partnership — would be happier if it included Microsoft as well | When I first saw that Yahoo and the advertising holding company WPP were set to announce a partnership, my immediate reaction was: Here’s the first of many Yahoo attempts to rebuff Carl Icahn’s (and to an extent, Microsoft’s) hostile takeov... |
| 06.04.2008 | The Declining Power Of The Firm | I am a fan of Umair Haque‘s thinking and writing. I find it refreshingly original and often quite thought provoking. Umair’s central tenet is that we are in the midst of a groundbreaking shift from a centralized economy dominated by large &... |
| 12.09.2007 | Yahoo wins Bebo ad deal | Yahoo! is to handle advertising for the UK and Ireland sites of Bebo, one of the largest social networks in the world. This is the the first such deal for the portal giant which until now had failed to get an advertising foothold in the rap... |
| 16.08.2007 | PubMatic Aims to Maximize Revenue for Web Site Publishers | PubMatic, which launched a limited alpha to the general public today, is a new service that helps web site publishers run the highest paying ads from top ad networks. Unlike ad auctions such as Right Media, in which ad networks bid against ... |
| 26.07.2007 | Microsoft Buys AdECN Ad Exchange | Continuing their aggressive push into the online advertising market, Microsoft today announced that it had acquired the online ad exchange AdECN. The deal was first announced by Kevin Johnson, the president of Microsoft’s Platforms and Serv... |
| 02.07.2007 | Zend tries to put more PHP into the workplace | Zend, a company that supports web development in the PHP open-source programming language for large organizations, is launching a framework of developer tools to help businesses build web services faster.
It’s trying to make PHP as powerful... |
| 27.06.2007 | Yahoo! 2.0: Its Reorganization and Future | Yahoo! is changing. Terry Semel’s resignation and co-founder Jerry Yang’s return to the CEO position is one of the most visible changes. Yahoo! has always been harshly criticized for not being a technology company and lagging behind Google.... |
| 30.04.2007 | Yahoo answers GoogleClick, buys Right Media for $680M | Updated
Yahoo has acquired online ad exchange company, Right Media, for $680 million, a move that shows Yahoo is not resting in the wake of Google’s purchase of banner ad company Doubleclick earlier this month.
The WSJ reported the story ju... |
| 30.04.2007 | Right Idea | Back in December 2005, I wrote a post about turning online advertising into a real market. That very day I got an email from Michael Walrath, founder and CEO of Right Media, explaining that his company was doing exactly what I suggested sho... |
| 30.04.2007 | Yahoo! Buys Right Media Ad Exchange | It's happy times on the Right Media Exchange as employees and shareholders took in another $680 million from Yahoo! to be fully-acquired by the struggling web search/entertainment/whatever monolith.
With Google's purchase of DoubleClick and... |
| 30.04.2007 | Yahoo! Spending $680 Million For Remaining Stake In Right Media | Right Media is a private, New York-based advertising company that offers products known as PMX (Publisher Media Exchange), NMX (Network Media Exchange), and AMX (Advertiser Media Exchange). The product line that Right Media offers were so a... |
| 29.04.2007 | Panama Not Enough To Battle Google: Yahoo Acquires RightMedia | Yahoo announced today that it will acquire the 80% of advertising network RightMedia that it doesn’t already own for $680 million in cash and Yahoo stock. (Yahoo already owned 20 percent of the company, putting the total valuation at $850 m... |
| 04.04.2007 | DoubleClick Advertising Exchange – Could Lead To Google / Yahoo / Microsoft Showdown | The New York Times reported this morning that DoubleClick plans to launch an exchange for online advertisements. The system is described as follows:
“DoubleClick, based in New York, views the exchange as the centerpiece of a growth plan and... |
| 22.03.2007 | Web Apps 101: Your Three Point Success Plan | Building a web app is easy. Building a successful and profitable web app is where most people fail.
In this new series of articles, I will share valuable strategies and tips for building successful web apps. I’ll be covering everything from... |
| 16.01.2007 | Yahoo’s Acquisition Pattern: Smart and Cheap | Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus
Yahoo has had its problems lately. Bad financial results in the 3rd quarter
of 2006 and the
peanut butter manifesto of senior vice president Brad Garlinghouse resulted
in doubt about th... |
| 16.11.2006 | Let's Get This Party Started! | The TechCrunch New York Party kicks off in three hours, 7 PM EST, at BED in Manhattan.
The final guest list is here, although it doesn’t include sponsor attendees and press. All attendees should have received an email confirmation of the pa... |
| 27.10.2006 | Update on TechCrunch NY Event: Wait List Opened | The 450 slots we opened up for the TechCrunch New York party on November 16, 2006 were sold out in about four hours. We know a certain number of people won’t show up, so we are now opening up a wait list for additional guests.
Here’s the co... |
| 17.10.2006 | Right Media builds ad marketplace with $45M from Yahoo, Redpoint | Updated
We just talked with Right Media chief executive Mike Walrath, whose ad marketplace company just got a massive dollar injection from Yahoo. Now we understand why it comes from Yahoo.
We wrote early today (see our wire story) about th... |
| 17.10.2006 | Yahoo! Leads Investment in Ad Auction Company Right Media | New York based alternative advertising meta-network Right Media closed $45 million in Series B funding today. The service auctions ad space between multiple ad networks in real time. Yahoo! lead the round and will take 20% of the company. I... |
| 17.10.2006 | Ad marketplace co., Right Media, gets $45M from Yahoo, Redpoint | Updated
Search engine and media giant Yahoo has led a $45 million investment in Right Media, a start-up that is offering a marketplace for buyers and sellers of advertising. The deal gives Yahoo a minority stake in the company.
As part of t... |
| 13.08.2006 | The Coming Open Ad Market | Last December I wrote a post in which I called for an open online ad marketplace.
I got lots of interesting feedback from that post, but the best thing about writing that post is I got to meet Michael Walrath, founder and CEO of NY-based Ri... |
| 12.08.2006 | RMX Direct: alternative ad networks battle for your blog | New York based RightMedia has launched a beta version of a new advertising system that lets website publishers participate in multiple ad networks and automatically display ads from whichever network will pay the highest price per impressio... |