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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Widget Maker JS-Kit Closes $3.6 Million Series B Round	JS-Kit, a startup that develops a series of widgets that can be quickly integrated into websites, has raised $3.6 million in a Series B funding round led by Altos Ventures, with existing investor TEF3 also participating. The company says that it will use the funding to expand its team of engineers, along with the addition of DataPortability’s Chris Saad as Strategic Advisor. JS-Kit’s repertoire of available widgets include a commenting system, ratings, and polls, all of which can b...	October 14, 2008
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Are Buying. Who’s Selling?	Now that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have become bank holding companies, they are on the acquisition trail looking to boost their deposit bases. But who could they buy? Many of the obvious, biggest candidates have already been snapped up. Washington Mutual and Wachovia were sold off already. Sovereign Bancorp is all but won by Spain’s Banco Santander. Instead, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs will probably look for banks that can easily fit into their current operations without a l...	October 13, 2008
Envato Launches Theme Marketplace For Your Blog	Envato, a company that operates a set of marketplaces for digital goods, tutorial sites, and a handful of other “projects,” announced that it has launched a new service that will let you buy and sell Web templates for your Wordpress blog and just about any other CMS in existence. Dubbed ThemeForest, the service runs off the engine that powers the company’s Flash and royalty-free music loops marketplaces. Items on ThemeForest sell for $10 to $50, depending on the quality of th...	September 20, 2008
The week in preview: Expectations remain high for energy and oil	Filed under: Earnings reports, Forecasts, Economic dataWith a turn of the calendar page, we drift into the middle portion of the current quarter, but the earnings season rolls on. Among the many companies scheduled to report quarterly results this coming week are Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), and Whole Foods Market International (NASDAQ: WFMI). Let's take a look at which companies Wall Street analysts are expecting to be among the top ea...	August 03, 2008
JS-Kit Scores Deal With WorldNow, Adds 19 Million Potential Users	WorldNow, a leading CMS provider for local television news sites that total over 19 million visitors monthly, has partnered with JS-Kit to provide them with a number of community based widgets that will be embedded across their sites. JS-Kit, founded in 2006, creates simple widgets that can be implemented with only a few lines of code (you can see our introductory review of them here). Besides JS-Kit’s flagship commenting widget, WorldNow will be adding Ratings, Score, Reviews, Navigator...	May 29, 2008
CushyCMS Goes Professional	Stateless Systems has launched a professional, subscription based version of its hosted content management system CushyCMS. I interviewed Guy King from Stateless for the CushyCMS launch in April (the post includes a demo video) and he mentioned then that the long-term plan for CushyCMS was to offer a professional subscription version. King tells me that the demand for a professional version of CushyCMS was strong from the day the service launched, so they immediately started building it. As of l...	May 20, 2008
UserVoice Offers A Better Way To Take Customer Suggestions	UserVoice offers a hosted way to harness the innovation and ideas of customers and potential customers that replaces email. San Francisco based UserVoice improves the signal-to-noise of user opinion by allowing the moderation of the ideas of one person against the opinions of the many. UserVoice allows users to voice opinions, suggestions, and complaints. The video above demonstrates how it works (it’s difficult to pigeon hole) but think focus groups for companies that can’t afford f...	April 20, 2008
CushyCMS Beta Launch: Free Invites For TechCrunch Readers	Stateless Systems (RetailMeNot, BugMeNot) has launched a closed beta test of hosted service CushyCMS. CushyCMS is a fast, simple and free content management system that aims to make life easier for web designers by simplifying content management. Using CushyCMS, web designers can give content editors (for example a client) access to part, full or many pages at a granular level (headings, images, sidebars, etc), enabling them to update or create standards-compliant content directly from a br...	April 08, 2008
Pirillo Starts Large Scale Community CMS Project	Chris Pirillo has announced a new, large scale open source CMS project that aims to “de-geekify” website tools (announcement video above). The project will be built on the open source Drupal framework: “For the geeks: Drupal has so much power in its core, and enough fantastic community-contributed modules, that I think it’s time to assemble an Install Profile, complete with beautiful (accessible, microformat’ed, high quality) themes, pre-set Views for any Web community t...	March 27, 2008
More Consolidation in the White Label Social Networking Space: Mzinga Acquires Prospero	White label social networking provider Mzinga, which officially launched at TechCrunch Boston this past November, has announced its acquisition of Prospero Technologies, another social networking company that we covered in a roundup awhile back. Mzinga has also raised an impressive $32.5M in funding, part of which has gone towards acquiring Prospero, and part of which will be used to expand the business, which post-acquisition brings in over $30M annually from 125 enterprise customers. This ac...	March 03, 2008

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