Petit récapitulatif des faits marquants de l’année 2007 sur TechCrunch US. Des liens, en version originale, à re-découvrir.
Tout d’abord les 10 billets les plus populaires de l’année sur TechCrunch US:
- Fifty Oomas For Readers, Just Tell Us Why You Want It
- Being Stupid And Litigious Is No Way To Go Through Life
- The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos
- Spinvox Launching in U.S. - We Have 100 Accounts To Give Away Now
- Digg Surrenders to Mob
- Yahoo Invites Us Into Mash, Its New Social Network
- Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday
- Facebook Source Code Leaked
- Ooma’s First (Drug Induced?) Viral Video
- Digg Should Sue Wired
Une année 2007 riche en acquisitions et levées de fonds:
- Tesla Asks Investors For Another $40 Million To Start Its Engines.
- Breaking: Kayak Raises $196 Million, Buys Rival SideStep,
- NewsGator Gets $12 Million,
- Viacom Inks $500 Million Ad Deal With Microsoft; Makes a Hollywood Play For Videogames Too,
- Social Networking Site Hi5 Takes $20 million,
- AdBrite Takes In Another $23 Million,
- Another $60 Million For Facebook,
- Blowtorch Raises $50 Million to Launch a New Hollywood Studio,
- Google Gets Android Apps Going With a $10 Million Challenge,
- eBay’s StumbleUpon Acquisition: Confirmed at $75 Million,
- CBS Acquires Europe’s Last.fm for $280 million,
- $100 Million Payday For Feedburner - This Deal Is Confirmed,
- Joost Announces $45 million Funding From Sequoia, Index, CBS & Viacom,
- Confirmed: MySpace To Acquire Photobucket For $250 Million
- Meebo Announces $9 Million Series B Round,
- It’s Official - eBay is Buying StubHub For $310 million.
- Twitter Gets Their Venture Round,
- Google To Acquire GrandCentral,
- Breaking: Google Spends $3.1 Billion To Acquire DoubleClick,
- Comscore Files To Go Public,
- Cisco Buys WebEx for $3.2 Billion.,
Le terminus s’est aussi rempli, voici les 10 dernières disparitions:
- A Sad Milestone: AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development
- Wal-Mart Shuts Movie Download Service, Offers SEM Services Instead
- Foonz, The Deadpool Is Calling
- PayPerPost Suspends Zookoda, Deadpool Looking Likely
- Oh My God! Apple Killed Think Secret! Those Bastards!
- VCs Push 3Guppies Into The Deadpool
- CNET To Shutter Newsburst RSS Reader
- AGLOCO Doesn’t Pay To Surf, Joins Deadpool
- CompUSA Goes Into The DeadPool. Good.
- Edgeio To Shut Down - In The DeadPool
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