Microsoft has agreed terms on what is set to be their biggest ever deal. A whopping $8.5 million for VOIM/VOIP operator Skype.     There were rumours that Google and Facebook were sniffing around and it’s unclear whether MS felt the need to go ahead and make sure of this deal. However from where I’m standing, the numbers just don’t add up.   This was an all cash deal, no stocks or shares packages. Skype [...]

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  FigCard is a mobile payments solution that was only started up in early 2011. The team consists of Max Metral, John “Hasty” Granbery and Dave McLaughlin. The team isolated early on that mobile payments systems typically fell into two camps. SMS and NFC (Near Field Communications). Fig Card saw problems with these traditional solutions ranging from lack of security, lack of interactivity , slowness and privacy amongst other issues. So they set about seeking [...]

SurveyMonkey is on a spending spree after raising $100 Million in funding themselves back in 2010. They have recently purchased the clicktools and precision polling websites as has been previously reported. Today in Breaking News, it has been announced that SurveyMonkey have acquired the 5 year-old startup www.Wufoo.com for 35 million dollars. Wufoo launched in July 2006, which is quite a longtime ago in internet years. Wufoo is an online form generator website . They [...]