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News & Updates - Thursday, July 1, 2004

About alarm:clock & alarm:clock euro

alarm:clock and our sister site alarm:clock euro cover the business of technology startups. Each weekday, we profile privately-held technology ventures. We analyze the business models and tell you how these companies fit in to the technology landscape. You’ll also find ongoing news and updates about the companies we cover – and about the technology industry at large.

Our editors are old hacks who worked at Red Herring and The Industry Standard back when client/server software and virtual reality were all the rage. We covered the bubble and then belched it out. We’ve even started our own companies in the past, we’ve raised money, we’ve seen the madness.

With offices in Zürich, New York and San Francisco, alarm:clock covers: Internet, wireless, hardware, and software companies. We get dirt from our moles on the pitch at the Grasshopper-Club Zürich, at parties off Wall Street and biking past the office parks along Highway 101, but we welcome new moles - so write us at comments [at] thealarmclock [dot] com

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ThumbBehavioral Ad Network JellyCloud Raises $11.5M

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Redwood City's JellyCloud has called down $6.6M of a $12M Series A1 round, says PEWire. Investors are Softbank America,US Venture Partners , Crosslink Capital and Sand Hill Capital. JellyCloud is led by CEO Scott VanDeVelde who was CEO at Claria (aka adware's Gator). Others in the leadership come from Claria. JellyCloud is in semi-stealth mode but leverages patented behavioral targeting technology on behalf of Advertisers, Publishers, Software providers and ISPs. The key here is ISPs. The trend among behavioral networks is to partner with ISPs to match data that ISPs have on Web traffic with ads that want to be targeted. As with Claira, it looks like Jellycloud is starting to become controversial. We spotted some complains on message boards like this one from Darlene T: "How do i get grape.jellycloud.com to stop coming up as my home page. I don't know what it is.?" and from Woodbrooke "My internet history keeps reporting grape.jellycloud.com, i don't know what this is?" View - site...

ThumbAsk.com Picks Up Dictionary.com After It Was Jilted By Answers.com

Thursday May 15, 2008

Ask.com is buying Dictionary.com parent Lexico (which also owns Thesaurus.com. If it sounds like this is a repeat of an old post that's because Answers.com had announced it would pay $100M for Lexico last year, before that deal went south with Answers' financing. The NY Times reports that Ask.com will also pay about $100M. Ask.com says that buying Lexico will expand its audience by 11% thanks to 145M unique monthly users. An eye-popping number is that Lexico currently only has 20 employees. Wow. View - site...

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