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Caring.com Raises $10 Million

Content portal for people who care for the elderly raises $10 million...

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QuinStreet IPO

QuinStreet plans $250 million IPO - Link to S1 - Filing -> http://secwatch.com/filings/view.jsp?formid=2469864

Price is around $8...

ExactTarget Raise $70 Million

According to the PR, ExactTarget is: "ExactTarget is a leading global provider of on-demand email and one-to-one marketing solutions. The company’s software as a service technology provides organizations a single platform to connect with customers via triggered and transactional email, integrated text messaging, voice messaging, landing pages and social media. Supported by collaborative global services teams, ExactTarget’s technology integrates with more sales and marketing information systems than any other in the industry, including Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Omniture and Webtrends among many others. ExactTarget’s software powers permission-based multi-channel communications for thousands of organizations around the world including Expedia.com, Aurora Fashions, Papa John’s, CareerBuilder.com, Gannett Co., Inc., The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, The Home Depot and Wellpoint, Inc."

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Zynga Raises $15 Million From Unknown Mafia Pimp

Scamville creator, Zynga, recently secured $15 Million in VC Funding from an Unknown Mafia Pimp from MafiaWars.

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Joost Kaput

Joost, supposedly the YouTube killer, has gone to the deadpool...remains have gone to Adconion Media.

Rumor: Facebook Thinking About IPO

Their latest stock re-structuring hints of something big in 2010.  Perhaps an IPO filing is in the making...

When is Starcraft 2 Coming Out?

From reading their FAQ, it seems like NEVER...in the meantime, I'll happily play Call of Duty Modern Warfare.

Google Acquires Teracent

Google has bought San Mateo-based Teracent for an undisclosed amount. Teracent has developed a platform for dynamic ad optimization and enables dynamic offer management for direct response and brand marketers who want to turn online display advertising into performance media.

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Bloosky Acquires Tracking202

The price is pretty much unknown at this point, but it's a good call to kickstart consolidation in this industry...I'm sure the crackheads at Sequoia are thinking the same about their investment in Kenshoo...perhaps they'll pimp it to Google as they've done with their past investments because they pretty much treat them like an ATM.

Scamville Game Tips - Mafia Wars

Ok, i kinda like playing this scamville game. *haha?*  First of all, you want to choose a cool mafia name before you start playing, and seriously, some of you idiots out there had overlooked this step and have the name 'Default Don'. How lame!  You suck! Good luck earning enough coins to change your name because it would take several gazillion weeks of non-stop wanking in scamville.  Next, choose the Maniac class because it regains energy the quickest so you can do more jobs and earn more bling. Anyway, the next tip is to put all of your earned points toward the 'Energy' category because it will allow you to do more 'jobs' and help you level up quickly.  Also, buy properties and businesses so you can earn more bling to buy more properties and businesses and make more bling recursively. Oh yeah! This way you'll feel like a big mafioso daddy with your virtual gazillionaire lifestyle.  Well, have fun making lots of bling in mafia wars and try not to get scammed! W00t muthamofo!  Oh, I'm currently at level 103.

Is Facebook Dying - Part 2

The last time I pondered to myself of the fact that Facebook (fb) might be dying, but then came the social media gaming wave/tsunami/bubble/what the hell ever you want to call it, and it seemed to have gained back some momentum in terms of engagement and social relevancy.   Games such as Farmville and Mafia Wars became quite popular and mildly addictive to the fb's attention deficit disordered (add) crowd, whores and dorks alike mind you.  Traffic ramped back up because people would frequently return to fb to cultivate their minions in farmville or do a hit job or 2 in mafia wars.  But then recently, one of the most popular social gaming facilitators, Zynga, received some really negative press from a popular tech blog, which i will not mention.  

They were accused of being a scamville due to the fact that they were pushing incentivized/promotional offers (ie offerweb) within their games.  An example, one of the offers is a mobile promo where you would submit your cell number in exchange for bonus game coins.   The problem with these shady offers is that they'll bait consumers into buying a supposedly 'free' product (subscription) with a super small fine print that people often overlook and if you look closely, in most cases, it states that you'll be charged in full after the trial period. In most cases, the unsuspecting/victimized consumer would not know what had just happened until it was too late, which is when he/she sees their next monthly credit card statement with a fat subscription charge.   The scam hell would then continue for some consumers if the scamville culprits made it nearly impossible to cancel your subscription and basically trap you in a recurring billing blackhole of hell.  

Ok, now alot of fb users that got scammed are no longer playing these social games nor visiting fb as often as before.  And of course, fb recently clamped down on these promo advertisers, so no more scammy fake freebies.   In my opinion, this translates into the beginning of the fb demise.  How so?  Less traffic, less ads, less eyeballs, more red tapes equate to lower revenue!

Someone is Googling Me....

Boo!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Arefernet.typepad.com%20quinstreet&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

QuinStreet 2009 Revenue

It seems like they're doing well this year...$261 million!

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Is Facebook Dying?

Myspace has died...is Facebook next?

Bullish on Citigroup (C)

If it's going to $6-$8.5, then it's a strong buy around $4....load up?

QuinStreet To Acquire Internet.com

for $18 million...Nice...now my stocks should be worth a little more...

http://www.internet.com/

http://news.softpedia.com/news/QuinStreet-Buys-Internet-com-for-18-Million-118779.shtml

Buy FITB

Investment Idea : Buy BAC

Look at its bullish chart:

Auto Industry Bailout is Fraud!!!

WTF?  I can't believe our gawd forsaken congress approved a bailout budget for the pathetic auto makers.   Adding insults to taxpayers, it's just a temporary fix so these idiots can operate for another 2 months AND they do not have a plan on how to stop the bleeding!  Another kick in the balls is the greedy unions are unhappy with the bailout payout.  WTF WTF WTF???  F the Union!!! F them up the cornhole with a 10 foot flagpole!  I am sooooo pissed!!!   I feel like taking a massive dump on an Escalade to protest this stupid bailout!  Gawd damn it!

3G iPhone 2

The iPhone 2 software update is coming next week and the 3G iPhone should be rolled out by the end of this month.

The Deal is Off

Microsoft decided $2 zillion was too much for Yahoo!  For now, they will pursue their path to perpetual mediocrity on their own.

iPhone 2 Update

Ok, I heard it's coming out in June, both 8 and 16 gig versions.  Also, Apple may just unlock it and allow the carriers to re-sell the thing for a much cheaper price with the typical 2-year contract.  Guess who will get the short end of the stick?   Current iPhone owners, myself included! Grrrrrr!

Microsoft's Rentention Plan for Yahoo! Employees

And now the retention plan...

• Everyone gets a copy of Vista Home free of charge
• Free "I love Steve Balmer" t-shirts
• 50% off all HP laptops w/a free trial copy of Office 2008
• Everyone takes a 25% pay cut plus increase their work hours to 80 per week
• Everyone has to move up to wonderfully precipitated Seattle/Redmond
• Free starbucks for life if you move to Redmond

Microsoft Ups Yahoo! Offer to $1 Zillion

But it looks like Yahoo! isn't budging.  Can we say Proxy battle on the horizon?  Let's hope Yahoo! can get atleast $2 zillion.

Toilet Stock NetSuite Tanking Hard

How were they able to swindle idiot investors into buying their shares in an IPO is beyond any sane human being comprehension.  Good luck to those suckers that bought at $26!!!  Let's hope it doesn't go below $5.  Another suspective stock that you could short is Salesforce.com (CRM).  Yes, that's right, you better get out before they announce bad earnings and tank as bad as NetSuiteepie.

When is the iPhone 2 Coming?

Please let me know when it is coming out because At&t Edge is so SLOOOOOOWWW!!!

Microsoft Buys Yahoo for $500 Trillion

To Yahoo! Don't sell out cheap, ask for a HUGE premium from baldy balmer and his scaredy cat redmond cronies!

VMWare IPO is August 14th

Time to party again like it's 1999!

LinkedIn Survey

Have you benefited from using LinkedIn?

If yes, how so?

If no, why not?

Fraudulent Leads and Customers from Incentivized Websites...

If you're looking to drive HIGH quality traffic to your continuity e-commerce related offers, be sure to add tons of fraud filters if your distribution channel is comprised of mostly incentivized websites like the ones that try to get users to fill out surveys or try out products.  Of course, you'd like to blend the traffic for the sake of volume, HOWEVER, long term, it's a bad strategy because your continuity conversion % rate will drop off dramatically and you will definately LOSE tons of money!