Venturebeat (Wednesday)
You usually don’t think of profit when you think of instant messaging services, but Paltalk has been making money for years through its subscription service — and the company has just bought back shares from investor Softbank Capital Partners, ...

Venturebeat (Tuesday)
Showing that the game sector is still vibrant for venture investment, Outspark has raised $8.3 million in a third round of funding for its casual online role-playing games. The San Francisco company will use the money to expand on a global basis. Outspark ...

Venturebeat (Thursday)
This past April, AOL began testing out a social toolbar for web sites, under the name of a lifestreaming service called Socialthing, which it acquired in 2008. The toolbar is now going through a rough transition into something else, although it’s not...

Silicon Alley Insider (Wednesday)

Meebo has launched a new ad format which guarantees advertisers that site visitors will spent at least 30 seconds on their ads, reports Reuters.

The ads will appear as icons on the Meebo toolbar which appears at the bottom of partner sites. Meebo...

Venturebeat (Tuesday)
Meebo is taking another big step towards making its instant messaging service profitable. It’s officially launching a new product that runs interactive pop-out ads within its IM toolbar available on partner sites. You might be on a racing site, for e...

paidContent (Tuesday)

Social media ad forecasts mostly focus on networks like Facebook and MySpace, but brands are also running campaigns on IM-based services like Meebo and IMVU. And both companies have launched new partnerships and feature upgrades aimed at increasing the ...