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Website developer Emprivo is selling its online book directory Read Print for about $1 million, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. Our source wouldn’t name the buyer, but described it as a large private equity fund in Silicon Valley. Read Print’s catalogue consists of public domain books that users can view in a special pop-up “reading mode.” According to a posting on website auction service Flippa , Read Print receives 1.58 million pageviews per month from 453,000 unique visitors, and it earned $117,000 in profit during the past year. (The site is ad-supported.) Earlier this week, Time Magazine named Read Print one of the 50 best websites for 2010, praising its “rich selection of books, poems, plays and short stories.” We’re told that the company is working on an advertising network. It has recruited venture capitalists to back the network, and they wanted Emprivo to sell Read Print to focus exclusively on the advertising product. The buyer, meanwhile, wants to turn Read Print into an app store and community around books. Emprivo declined to comment on the deal.
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Emprivo sells book directory Read Print for $1M
For once, people are talking about Six Apart, a blogging pioneer which hasn’t otherwise generated much chatter recently.
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Six Apart, social media’s neglected star, gets deal buzz
Media is hard. Let’s go shopping! In Silicon Valley, market-watchers are looking to digital media in its many forms — social networks, tablet apps, user-generated content — to revive the IPO market. That’s why there’s so much buzz about Zynga and Facebook as IPO candidates. But there’s a smarter bet for investors: e-commerce. Don’t scoff.
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After Twitter spent its formative years just trying to stay operational , the San Francisco-based microblogging service seems to be entering a new creative period. Twitter wants you to make more friends — but the fast-growing startup also seems to be finding smarter ways to cultivate allies. The site’s developers have spent the last week trying out a number of new features on the homepage and users’ profile pages, in addition to debuting an official Tweet button to make it easy to share Twitter posts on other websites. Twitter hasn’t entirely escaped its unstable past: Its Tweet button accidentally made websites that had implemented it inaccessible shortly after its rollout
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As Twitter grows up, it finds making friends easier
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San Francisco startup Rapportive announced today that it has enlisted a long list of well-known investors as part of a seed round of more than $1 million. Given Rapportive’s aim to provide relevant information about your contacts in Gmail, the most impressive person on that list is probably Gmail creator Paul Buchheit. He’s an angel investor and now a Facebook employee via the acquisition of his company FriendFeed. There are a number of other startups built around the goal of providing more relevant data about your email contacts — in Rapportive’s case that data include your contact’s photos, location, and LinkedIn profile. Chief executive and cofounder Rahul Vohra (pictured) said Rapportive is distinguished from other products by being genuinely easy-to-use and beautiful
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It has become a cliche that newspapers are stumbling in their transition to the Web, largely because they just can’t make as much money from their websites as they can from print. A startup called Perfect Market is unveiling a tool today aimed at changing that. Dubbed The Vault, the new service is basically the data and analytics side of Perfect Market’s services. The Altadena, Calif., company already works with newspapers like The Los Angeles Times and The Baltimore Sun to optimize stories for search engines, then to deliver customized news pages for visitors who come in from clicking on search results. The idea is that those visitors from search are very different from visitors who read the newspaper every day, so Perfect Market will strip pretty much everything away from the page except for the story and the ads. Even more important from a revenue point of venue, it will deliver ads that are specifically targeted towards that search.
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Perfect Market opens The Vault to help newspapers make money
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Pixazza, a company that can take static images and enrich them with live links to products , has raised $12 million in a second round led by Shasta Ventures .
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Pixazza raises $12 million to make images across the Web interactive
Zynga’ s FarmVille has more than 62 million monthly users on Facebook. And that has made it a magnet for marketing deals. The company announced that it has integrated special crops from organic food company Cascadian Farm into the FarmVille game
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Here’s the latest action: Old Spice, revealed — The masculine fragrance company has been all the rage the last couple days as it’s been posting humorous YouTube videos of their sexy spokesman responding to questions asked via Twitter. Now Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb is taking a behind-the-scenes look at the advertising win . More car brands sync with Google Maps — Google Maps’ service that allows you to send driving directions directly to your car so that they are there waiting for you is gaining momentum, with now more than 20 car brands around the world offering these capabilities . March of the super-seeds — Fred Wilson, author of the AVC blog, takes a closer look at all the buzz that super seed funds are going to start gaining momentum now that most venture capitalists are interested in more capital-efficient plays. Hulu Plus lands on PlayStation 3 — The premium version of the video site, called Hulu Plus, is now available through PlayStation 3 for a monthly subscription fee of $9.99 . Amazon beefing up MP3 store — The major online retailer seems to be onboarding a bunch of new employees to work on its music tools, perhaps indicating that a major relaunch is in the works? TechCrunch thinks so
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Roundup: Behind the scenes at Old Spice, Twitter’s internal strife, and more