News Archive
01 August 2007
Gamasutra
By Gamasutra
Turner's GameTap subscription PC 'all you can eat' gaming service has announced that it has signed an exclusive licensing deal with Codemasters, bringing the majority of the veteran publisher and developer's catalog of games, including the recently released DiRT, to North American subscribers. The new deal, which includes multi-year North American ..
30 July 2007
Guardian Unlimited
By Guardian Unlimited
Britain's internet entrepreneurs are no longer languishing in the dot com doldrums, but have emerged revitalised and ready for another round. Bobbie Johnson surveys the scene and lists the top 10 British dotcoms to keep track of. The boom is back. In Britain, the internet doldrums took a long time to disappear – b..
30 July 2007
New York Times
By Saul Hansell
YouTube is shaping up to be the farm team for a generation of aspiring webcam-toting filmmakers. And no one made a bigger debut than the creators of Lonelygirl15, the video confessions of a confused teenager that caused a wildfire of attention as viewers tried to figure out if Bree, the confessional star, was real. (Answ..
29 July 2007
Ireland’s Sunday Business Post
By Emma Kennedy and Gavin Daly
Intune, an Irish laser technology firm, plans to hire 25 more staff after raising €13million in funding. Tom Fritzley, a former Microsoft and Tellabs executive who became chief executive of Intune last year, said the funds would be used to expand the firm’s Dublin base and to develop its product range. Intune dev..
25 July 2007
mad.co.uk
By Nikki Preston
EMI has teamed up with teen social networking site Habbo to promote the digital launch of its latest music compilation Now 67. The deal was brokered by media agency Starcom and enables EMI to promote the album to Habbo’s core teen market through the creation of the Now 67 Summer Beach Café on Habbo.co.uk. In additi..
12 July 2007
The Deal Blogs
By Mary Kathleen Flynn
TVtrip.com, an online search engine for hotels in Europe that features video clips, has secured $4.8 million in Series A financing from Balderton Capital (the newly named London-based European team of Benchmark Capital) and Partech International. The travel Web site was founded in May by four former execs from Expedia Eu..
02 July 2007
Siliconrepublic.com
By John Kennedy
The venture capital company in which ex-Digifone chief executive Barry Maloney is a partner, Balderton Capital, has taken a multimillion dollar investment in Europe’s first online advertising marketplace AdJug.com. The investment includes participation from Espotting founder Seb Bishop and will see TradeDoubler vice-..
28 June 2007
Silicon.com
By Andy McCue
'It's not stupidly cheap but it is cost effective'... Online betting and gaming company Betfair has set up an offshore software development centre in Romania to cope with the demands of its rapidly expanding product portfolio. Betfair opened the 50-person facility earlier this year with just eight developers. Already it is u..
28 June 2007
VentureWire
By Staff Reporters
Wonga, an online service for same day personal loans, has raised a $6 million round of investment to finish developing the company's technology platform. Balderton Capital, formerly Benchmark Capital Europe, provided the funding. Wonga.com is designed for people who want a short term, unsecured, same-day cash loan to help them..
25 June 2007
Business wire (New york)
By Business wire
Daylife, a news platform that helps publishers add content and context to their news and develop pioneering news experiences and products, today announced that it has completed a $8.3M round of funding led by Balderton Capital, formerly Benchmark Capital Europe. The investment, which also includes participation from vent..
20 June 2007
Business wire (Ireland)
By Business wire
Global, multi-divisional enterprises use Enterprise Conglomerate to deliver real-time “Thank Yous” Globoforce, the leading provider of worldwide, on-demand employee reward & recognition programs and sales incentive solutions for Global 2000 companies, today announced its latest offering, Enterprise Cong..
14 June 2007
The Times
By Dan Sabbagh
Codemasters, the computer games developer behind the Colin McRae rally series, is preparing for a Pounds 200 million-plus flotation in the next year, after its principal investor completed the buyout of the brothers who founded the firm. Richard and David Darling sold their remaining interest of about 25 per cent to the existing investor Bal..
13 June 2007
Times Online
Rhys Blakely
Apple signs its first distribution deal with a social networking site, as it seeks to extend its dominance in digital music From Apple has signed a music distribution deal with Bebo, its first with a social networking site, as it seeks to extend its dominance in digital music. Under the deal, described by Apple as a “super-a..
12 June 2007
Business wire (Ireland)
by Business wire
NewBay Software, the leading provider of mobile multimedia and social networking products and services, today announced that Swisscom Mobile, the leading provider of mobile communication services in Switzerland, has chosen NewBay to provide UGC services to its 4 million subscribers. Swisscom has licensed NewBay's FoneBlo..
The store promises to make music files "more accessible" British download store 7digital says it will "take on iTunes" in the battle for digital music and video. The download service, which relaunches on Tuesday, is promising cheaper prices and greater ease of use than the Apple store in a bid to attract customers. C..
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