Web 2.0 - Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Anti-Child Predator Startup IMSafer Bought By Rival Crisp Thinking
Beaverton, OR based IMSafer, whose technology lets parents watch for child predators on the Web, has been bought by a Leeds, UK-based rival called Crisp Thinking. IMSafer is not disclosing the price that Crisp paid.
The way that product works is that it scan instant messenger conversations in real time, and look for predator languages. It also has a reputation component whereby parents can approve suitable contacts for their kids. Basic IMSafer service will support up to one monitored IM account. A premium IMSafer account allows for monitoring of an unlimited number of IM accounts, as well as support for MySpace and Meebo, support for MySpace comments, detection of links sent in IM which point to social networking sites and support for Microsoft Windows Vista Parental Control.
In late 2006, IMSafer aised $1.2M from angel investors in a round that was led by Robin Richards, who is co-founder of mp3.com and president and CEO of Los Angeles-based The NTI Group.
IMSafer gets a fair amount of TV news coverage
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