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- Goomzee Scores $1.5 Million To Help Real Estate Agents Close Deals Via Mobile
- Yellow Pages Group Buys Canpages For $225M, Contributes U.S. Ops To ZipLocal
- GOOD Adds YouTube CEO Chad Hurley And Pepsi CMO Jill Beraud To Advisory Board
- French Search Engine Publisher AllGoob Scores €1 Million
- Europe's Biggest Publisher Disses The iPad, Embraces The WePad
| Goomzee Scores $1.5 Million To Help Real Estate Agents Close Deals Via Mobile | Top |
| Goomzee , a Missoula, MT-based developer of a mobile marketing solution that helps real estate professionals connect with potential buyers, announced this morning that it has secured a $1.5 million Series A round of funding led by Highway 12 Ventures along with additional, undisclosed investors in the US and Europe. Goomzee's text message marketing product, Realty Connect (warning, annoying auto-starting demo video on this page), enables real estate agents across the United States to connect to potential buyers who have shown an active interest in a property on sale. Here’s how it works: real estate agents place signs or ads about a property for sale that prompt interested buyers to send a text message carrying a unique ID code and receive more information, pricing and optionally some photos of the property in response. The agent and potential buyer can then connect in a variety of ways to discuss the properties for sale. I suppose it’s a solution that can benefit real estate pros tremendously, but I’m seriously doubting if people are generally inclined to simply send a text message to an agent. They way I see it, there are enough ways for potential buyers to get in touch with sellers if they’re genuinely interested as it is. I also think QR codes or other types of barcodes that can transfer multimedia to mobile phones directly would be far more effective when placed on signs or ads. Your thoughts? CrunchBase Information Goomzee Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Yellow Pages Group Buys Canpages For $225M, Contributes U.S. Ops To ZipLocal | Top |
| Yellow Media, owner of Yellow Pages Group , is acquiring Canadian Phone Directories Holdings (aka Canpages ), a national local search and directories publisher. The seller is a consortium of investors led by PE firm HM Capital Partners , and the purchase price is approximately $225 million . While subject to working capital and other adjustments, the $225 million purchase price will be comprised of $75 million payable in cash at closing to settle third party debt obligations and the issuance of $150 million of Mandatory Exchangeable Promissory Notes of Yellow Media. The Notes will rank subordinate to the senior debt of Yellow Media and bear interest at a fixed initial rate of 5%, payable quarterly in cash. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canpages publishes 84 directories for a total circulation of approximately 8 million copies. The company’s website, Canpages.ca, attracts more than 3.5 million unique visitors each month. Canpages generates annualized revenues of $110M, with an online contribution of approximately 23%. The company employs about 700 people in Canada, of which more than 450 are sales consultants. YPG also announced the contribution of its U.S. directory operations, YPG Directories, publisher of Your Community Phone Book, to Ziplocal , which was acquired by Canpages in June 2009. YCB was itself acquired from Volt Information Sciences in September 2008. After the merger, the combined entity is said to reach over 300 markets across the United States. YPG says it will continue to own and operate its information technology platform and centers located in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and Indianapolis, Indiana. CrunchBase Information Canpages Ziplocal Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| GOOD Adds YouTube CEO Chad Hurley And Pepsi CMO Jill Beraud To Advisory Board | Top |
| GOOD , the company behind the integrated media platform for “people who give a damn”, has added some serious weight to its leadership team with the addition of three high-profile advisors. The company announced today that YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley (GOOD uses YouTube to power its video channel ) and Chief Marketing Officer and President, Joint Ventures, PepsiCo Beverages America Jill Beraud have joined GOOD’s Advisory Board. Also signing up as an advisor is founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org Charles Best . "Their unique insights and diverse experience will enable us to position ourselves for continued success and achieve our company mission, which is to celebrate and enable individuals, businesses and nonprofits pushing the world forward," said Craig Shapiro , President of GOOD (he was formerly Head of Content Strategy & Acquisition at HELIO, Virgin Mobile USA). In other news, GOOD recently formed a strategic partnership with GoodSearch whereby the two entities will combine their traffic under the GOOD umbrella – generating over four million unique visitors on a monthly basis. GOOD recently secured a "single digit millions" funding round from co-founder and CEO Ben Goldhirsh and a number of angel investors including OLPC’s Nicholas Negroponte , in an effort to solidify as the go-to media platform for people who want to live well and do good. CrunchBase Information GOOD Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| French Search Engine Publisher AllGoob Scores €1 Million | Top |
| AllGoob , a French search engine publisher, has raised a €1 million first round with Newfund for its European development and new search engine, wiPikit. The company is behind job search engine success JobiJoba - which was launched in 2007 and is now one of the largest job databases in France, uniting over 300,000 job offers with 700,000 candidates on the site per month. The site also launched in Belgium in 2008 along with the UK, the US and Spain in 2009. But the investment is curious as JobiJoba is definitely not a lone star in the French market. | |
| Europe's Biggest Publisher Disses The iPad, Embraces The WePad | Top |
| Billed as an iPad competitor, the WePad is not vaporware, but is in fact, The Chosen One. At least, that's the view of some , who are hailing the WePad as the saviour of the German print publishing industry. While Apple is still racing to the wire to secure enough media content partnerships for the iPad before its launch this week, the WePad has already bagged Europe's biggest publisher , Gruner + Jahr. | |
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