Investments

MessageCast announced that its LiveMessage Blogger alert service has gotten 10,000 subscribers in its first week. Some cool blogs such as Bink.nu are using it. To see how it works,

We invested in NewsGator in June and Greg Reinacker and crew have been hard at work building out the next generation of NewsGator for Outlook and NewsGator Online Services (NGOS).

Newmerix announced today that it had raised $7m in a new financing. Siemens Venture Capital was the new lead investor, joining us and IDG Ventures. We provided Newmerix’s seed financing

ClickZ – one of the Jupitermedia companies – just chose Return Path as the Best Deliverabiity Product or Service of the year. I wrote about Return Path’s acquistion of NetCreations [

Return Path just issued an Email Delivery Index research brief based on data they collected from 16,000 email campaigns representing 3.4m email messages over a four month period. They discovered

StillSecure’s new product – Safe Access – just got an outstanding review in the August issue of Information Security. The punch line of the article is: “Safe Access’ agen

On Thursday of last week, IBM announced that it had acquired Cyanea. James Chong – the CEO at Cyanea – is taking a senior management role at IBM, as James

Yesterday, IAC/InterActiveCorp announced that it acquired ServiceMagic. ServiceMagic connects homeowners with prescreened and customer-rated residential contractors, real estate professionals and lend

I wrote about the merger of EYT and ePartners a few weeks ago. Today, ePartners announced that Microsoft had named it Global Partner of the Year at Microsoft’s annual Worldwide

StillSecure – one of my companies that was founded and run by long time entrepreneur Raj Bhargava (cofounded NetGenesis, ServiceMetrics, Interliant, Quova, and StillSecure) – had a great w