| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.07.2021 | Microsoft is in advanced talks to invest in OYO at a valuation of $9 billion, say media reports | Satya Nadella-run Microsoft is in advanced talks to invest in Airbnb-backed Indian budget hotel chain OYO at a valuation of $9 billion, the media reported on Friday.
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| 05.02.2015 | ReadWrite Joins Wearable World And Enters A New Era | I’m writing this note from the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, where ReadWrite has made its new home. The editors and writers of ReadWrite are now working alongside our new colleagues at Wearable World, a two-year-old startup which ha... |
| 05.02.2015 | Say Media Sells ReadWrite To Wearable World, Remodelista Sold Back To Founders | Long-running tech site ReadWrite (originally known as ReadWriteWeb) has found a new home — it’s been acquired by conference/incubator/media company Wearable World.
Its previous owner, Say Media, announced plans last fall to sell off its own... |
| 04.12.2014 | Say Media Buys Out Investors As It Exits The Media Business And Focuses On Its Publishing Platform | After four years of operating a portfolio of digital magazines, Say Media is saying goodbye to its media business. The company is also saying goodbye to its investors, buying them out as it seeks to reinvent itself as a product-focused busi... |
| 13.11.2014 | Say Media Is Selling Off Its Content Sites, Including ReadWrite and xoJane | Say Media owns sites like xoJane, ReadWrite, and Fashionista — but the company doesn’t plan to own them for much longer.
[Update: Fashionista is actually owned by Breaking Media. Sorry — I was confused by the fact that it’s listed in Say’s ... |
| 19.05.2014 | TypePad Claims It Was Hit By Another DDoS Attack | A number of technology companies, including Meetup, Basecamp, Vimeo, Bit.ly and others, have undergone website-crashing DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service) in recent months, but SAY Media-owned blogging platform Typepad, apparently... |
| 26.08.2013 | TxtMeApp Offers An Easy Way To Drive Mobile Downloads From Desktop Ads | Here’s one way advertisers can convince desktop viewers to try out their mobile apps — send them a text.
That’s the proposition behind TxtMeApp,a new product from Israel-based digital media agency Say Media Group (not to be confused with Sa... |
| 09.05.2013 | Say Media Lays Off 10 Percent Of Staff, Aims For Profitability In Second Half Of 2013 | Matt Sanchez, co-founder and CEO of Say Media (which owns xoJane, ReadWrite, and Dogster), just told me that the company has laid off about 10 percent of its 400-person staff.
Sanchez described this as part of Say’s transformation from an a... |
| 19.04.2013 | RW10: What Other Amazing Products Got Their Start In 2003? | ReadWrite celebrates its 10th anniversary on Saturday, April 20, 2013. For the occasion, we’re running a series of articles looking back—and looking forward.
When Richard MacManus started this site—then known as Read/Write Web—in 2003, he l... |
| 03.04.2013 | Owen Thomas Joins ReadWrite As Editor-in-Chief, Says He Will Take The Site ‘Back To Our Roots’ | Say Media just announced that Owen Thomas, previously the West Coast Editor at Business Insider, has joined ReadWrite (a tech blog that Say acquired in 2011) as editor-in-chief.
I reported on Friday that Thomas (who’s an old boss of mine — ... |
| 29.03.2013 | Business Insider’s Owen Thomas Is In Talks To Be The New Editor At ReadWrite | My old boss Owen Thomas is very close to becoming the new editor-in-chief at the SAY Media-owned tech site ReadWrite, according to sources with knowledge of the company. I’m hearing that it’s not quite a done deal, but that it’s looking ver... |
| 22.10.2012 | Editor’s Note: Welcome To The New ReadWrite | Welcome to the new ReadWrite. Today we are relaunching this legendary tech site with a new name, a new design and a new approach. I’m thrilled to be joining ReadWrite as the site’s new editor-in-chief, and to be teaming up with Fredric Paul... |
| 23.07.2012 | Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The last week has been a busy one for startups and venture firms San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Here are a few of the items that caught our eye, arranged from biggest to sm... |
| 19.07.2012 | SAY Media Raises $27M in Funding | SAY Media, a digital publishing company, has raised $27m in funding.
Backers include new investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Shea Ventures and Correlation Ventures, as well as existing investors August Capital, First Round Capital, M... |
| 19.07.2012 | Say Media Says Yes To $27M, Will Build Out Publishing Platform, Buy More Assets | Another milestone for online publishing company SAY Media, just 10 days after it had announced that Time Magazine publisher Kim Kelleher would be coming on board as president in September: today it confirmed that it has raised $27 million i... |
| 19.07.2012 | Say Media nabs $27M to take on ‘fashion and beauty’ | 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!
Media/advertising network startup Say Media has c... |
| 19.07.2012 | Funding Daily: VC helping hands lead to startup happy feet | Good thing we start happy hour late here at VentureBeat, or we would have missed Fab.com’s big news yesterday afternoon. In other $100+ announcements, Penguin took an independent, self-publishing platform under its wing, and Microsoft and Y... |
| 19.07.2012 | SAY Media Secures $27M in Funding |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Publishing platform has secured $27 million in funding led by new investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Shea Ventures and Correlation Ventures.
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| 19.07.2012 | Funding Daily: VC helping hands lead to startup happy feet | 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!
Good thing we start happy hour late here at Ventu... |
| 10.07.2012 | Time Publisher Kimberly Kelleher Joins Blog Network Say Media As President, Troy Young Departs | Say Media (the blog and advertising network that owns ReadWriteWeb, XOJane, Dogster, and others) is announcing some big executive changes today. President Troy Young is stepping down from a full-time role, and he’s being replaced by Kim Kel... |
| 20.05.2012 | Rise of the Tech Bandits: John Gruber & Josh Topolsky, the Cool Kids | Editor’s note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine, Dan Frommer chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard MacManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be looking back on the early days.
In our fina... |
| 18.05.2012 | Rise of the Tech Bandits: AllThingsD & Sarah Lacy, the Business Reporters | Editor’s note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine, Dan Frommer chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard MacManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be looking back on the early days.
When Sarah ... |
| 17.05.2012 | Rise of the Tech Bandits: Jason Calacanis, the Shapeshifter | Editor’s note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine, Dan Frommer chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard MacManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be looking back on the early days.
Blog networ... |
| 17.04.2012 | SAY Media Has A New Way To Measure Online Ads: “Cost Per Exposure” | Back in February, comScore released a statistic that was probably pretty discouraging if you’re an online advertiser: In a study, it found that 31 percent of ads delivered were never actually seen by consumers. If you’re paying by the ad im... |
| 16.04.2012 | How to get funded by August Capital's David Hornik | Calling all 'awesome' entrepreneurs with original ideas in the 'awesome' space
David Hornik, a partner at August Capital, is one of those likeable guys with an uncanny ability to say what's on his mind and get away with it. That's why we lo... |
| 22.03.2012 | No Corporate Website? You Don’t Need One. Welcome to the Post-Web era. | For those of you who have procrastinated about getting your corporate website together, I have some good news for you: you can pat yourselves on the back because you have just saved a bunch of money. For many smaller businesses, you don’t r... |
| 16.12.2011 | 2012 Predictions: Alicia Eler | It’s the end of a big week here at ReadWriteWeb. For one, we just got acquired by SAY Media. As I sit here thinking about what happened in 2011 and what’s to come in 2012, I keep in mind the simple fact that soon ReadWriteWeb will be operat... |
| 15.12.2011 | Proofpoint, GreenVolts, Prezi: Bay Area BizTech by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time for our irregular, data-driven roundup of recent deals news from around San Francisco Bay. From biggest to smallest:
$50 million—The amount that Sunnyvale, CA-based Proof... |
| 14.12.2011 | Project Orion: Say Media’s Plan To Tailor TypePad Into Its CMS And Become The Conde Nast Of The Web | I finally caught up with Say Media CEO Matt Sanchez today, after his acquisition of tech blog ReadWriteWeb. He wouldn’t confirm the $5 million price (he didn’t deny it either), but he let slip something else which sheds light on Say Media’s... |
| 14.12.2011 | ReadWriteWeb acquired by SAY Media, Dan Frommer joins up as editor-at-large (updated) | 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!
SAY Media has acquired technology blog ReadWriteW... |
| 23.08.2011 | Changing How We Handle Advertising And Sponsorships | We’re excited to announce today that we’ve moved in a new direction with the advertising and sponsorships we do on Techdirt, partnering with SAY Media to provide compelling, interesting and engaging forms of advertising and sponsorship. Let... |
| 21.06.2011 | SAY Media Acquires Digital Agency Sideshow | SAY Media, the company that was formed after the merger between VideoEgg and blogging software maker Six Apart, this morning announced its acquisition of Sideshow, a digital agency with offices in the US, Europe and the Middle East.
The Sid... |
| 31.05.2011 | With xoJane Launch, Say Media Embarks on Transformation into a “Passion-Based Media Company” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When VideoEgg bought its San Francisco neighbor Six Apart last fall and renamed the combined company Say Media, the reaction from many media watchers was, “Say what?” It wasn’... |
| 23.02.2011 | Introducing the SAY 100: Online Voices that Shape Opinion | SAY Media Partners with 10 Renowned Category Experts, including Stuart Miles and Nick Clarke, to Identify 100 Voices that Matter
LONDON, UK – 23 February 2011 – SAY Media today unveiled the SAY 100, a collection of authentic and knowledgeab... |
| 19.10.2010 | Say Media study: Live TV is in bigger trouble than you think | Is the future of television entirely online? When you look at new TV products from Apple and Google, it’s clear tech companies think that could be the case. But there’s also a sense that the shift is only coming … sometime, in the hazy futu... |
| 28.09.2010 | Why are 30 million Microsoft refugees headed to WordPress.com? | Microsoft has a long history of rewarding loyal partners.
"Partners?" you say. Yes, partners. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, uses Microsoft Azure services. Both companies revealed the partnership during Microsoft's ... |
| 25.09.2010 | Why Did VideoEgg Buy Six Apart? To Create A New Modern Media Empire, Says CEO | “The rules of media have completely been broken,” according to Say Media CEO Matt Sanchez. Because we’re no longer living in a world where print media is sold on a newstand and video media is only presented through cable television, everyth... |
| 22.09.2010 | VideoEgg Acquires Six Apart To Create Say Media | Modern Media Company Reaches 345 Million. Provides Advertisers the Scale of a Portal, Influence of Blog, and Efficiency of a Network
LONDON – September 22, 2010 – VideoEgg, the brand engagement pioneer, announced today it has agreed to acqu... |
| 22.09.2010 | What you need to know - Wednesday 9/22/10 | HP buys Fortify, Rocket Fuel raises $10M, OtherInbox raises $1.5M, Facebook's new social feed
Rocket Fuel gets $10 million from Nokia. The company is an ad optimizer. The service hopes to give data in the short term, to allow for faster mar... |
| 21.09.2010 | VideoEgg Will Acquire Six Apart And Rename Itself SAY Media | Advertising network VideoEgg will acquire blogging and advertising network Six Apart, and the combined entity will be renamed Say Media. The companies will officially announce the transaction tomorrow. VideoEgg CEO Matt Sanchez will run the... |
| 21.09.2010 | VideoEgg, Six Apart form online advertising play Say Media | Life never turns out quite the way you planned. Nor do startups. Two San Francisco-based companies, VideoEgg and Six Apart, are formally announcing tomorrow that they’re forming a new company, Say Media, built around online advertising — a ... |
