FetchDog.Com an online community and commerce site for dog owners has retrieved $4 million in capital from Borealis Capital Partners and Harbor Light Capital Partners. The Maine-based company has been funded to date from David E. Shaw and his wife, actress Glenn Close.
FetchDog.com has been a labor of love. The site has been focused on [...]
The Doritos Super Bowl Ad has been awarded first place in the YouTube Ad Blitz.
YouTube viewers voted on their favorite Super Bowl ads garnering more than 21 million views and almost 3m votes.
Congrats Doritos for integrating social media in the creation of a cool ad.
Last week we blogged right here on JeffBennett.Org that Amazon was going to unveil the Kindle2 on February 9, 2009. As we approach the big date chatter is escalating about Kindle2, but at the same time chatter has also started to escalate about bigger concepts for eBooks.
First, Amazon has has announced it will be releasing [...]
Open Table the restaturant reservation and social media business filed for an initial public offering worth up to $40 million on Friday. Open Table is a JeffBennett.Org “Cool Site.”
This is big news in an ipo market that has all but been slammed shut. We have witnessed most of the companies that have been in the [...]
You have to check out what CNN-Facebook are doing today for the Internet. I watched the ads all weekend and was trying to envision it. If you are a Facebook member go to CNN.Com and click on this promotional unit. You will be prompted for your Facebook login and then you are in. You can [...]
Janis Krums from Sarasota, Florida posts the first photo of U.S. Airways flight 1549 on Twitter from his iPhone. He was on the Ferry that saw the incident and sped to the scene to help. Citizen journalism at it’s best leverage the iPhone and Twitter. Thank God for the quick response to help fellow citizens [...]
It has been over one years worth of work building a strategy, team, platform, operation and advertisers and now launch for GlobalPost.Com is here. Great name. Great team. Good luck.
It is great to see an ambitious consumer media venture founded and launched in Boston. GlobalPost.com launches Monday, January 12, covering the news of the world. GlobalPost.com is founded by news veterans Philip Balboni and Charles Sennott. Mr. Balboni is the former founder and CEO of New England Cable News (NECN). [...]
RatePoint, Inc., a leading provider of customer feedback and online reputation management services announced it has closed a $10 million Series B round of funding led by Castile Ventures of Waltham, Mass., with participation by existing investors .406 Ventures and Prism VentureWorks.
RatePoint also announced that Nina Saberi, Managing General Partner of Castile Ventures, has [...]
Amazon.Com has released news that it’s 14th Christmas selling season was it’s best ever. Amazon.com did not release exact sales numbers, but provided some stunning numbers of items ordered:
- Strongest day of the season was December 15 with a total of 6.3 million items ordered – or almost 73 items every second.
- Between November 15 [...]
