Mystery: where does Yahoo’s search traffic go to?
Every time I read about Yahoo‘s share of the search market I wonder to what sites the Yahoo traffic is actually going. Here is the mystery: depending on the source, Yahoo’s share of the US search market is around 20% give or take (e.g. Compete numbers or ComScore numbers) but when I look at the […]
Google versus Facebook?
RBC came out with a very interesting analysis today that looked at how much Facebook and Google were complements or on a collission course and it got quite some attention among tech blogs (e.g. SI). RBC’s conclusion: Complementary (For Now): Google and Facebook are two of the fastest growing and largest companies on the internet, […]
TeamPages closes second round of financing
Securing additional financing is one of the most important (and toughest) tasks for start-ups these days – so I want to congratulate Mike Tan and his team for closing a second round of financing for TeamPages that also brought a few new investors into the company. TeamPages has shown some very good traction over the […]
Time to focus more on content aggregation than content creation?
The past few years have seen an incredible explosion of the creation of unique content – first through blogs, then through social networks, now through communication networks like Twitter. As content creation expanded we moved from the creation of longer, “thought-through” content pieces to short status updates and quick thoughts and “like’s”. In my opinion, […]
New investment: Tynt traces how people engage with your content
Calgary-based Tynt announced today that they closed a $5 million Series A financing with iNovia Capital from Montreal and I am happy that W Media had the opportunity to participate in the financing with a small amount. The company is led by Derek Ball, one of the most successful technology entrepreneurs in Western Canada, and […]