Where Are They Now - Friday, March 24, 2006
Jim Barnett Takes His Turn.com
AltaVista's turnaround jumper man Jim Barnett is back in the news. Silicon Beat has the scoop that Barnett has founded Turn.com a stealth-mode ad network that has raised $20M over 2 rounds, while BusinessWeek says its $10M + 16 PhDs.
Barnett is currently on the board of travel search engine SideStep as well as ValueVision (Nasdaq: VVTV). From the few details that we have seen, it appears that Turn will target ads based on tagging.
Read - Former Altavista CEO to launch new ad network (BusinessWeek)
Read - Turn raises more cash (SiliconBeat)
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