Website creation service provider Webs has acquired Pagemodo, which enables businesses and individuals to create great-looking Facebook Pages, TechCrunch has learned.
The news comes a couple of months after Webs added another relevant app, lightweight CRM tool ContactMe, to its suite of solutions designed to help small businesses develop an online presence across Web, social and mobile platforms.
Pagemodo enables small business owners to design their own custom Facebook pages using its Pagebuilder product, free of charge.
The products fits into Webs’ existing suite of products nicely – the company has long provided small business owners with tools to build and manage their own websites.
Pagemodo was founded by two Danish entrepreneurs, Thomas Kjeldgaard and Jakob Lykkegaard. To date, over 60,000 small businesses have signed up with Pagemodo and have published over 100,000 custom Facebook pages. The company claims 1.2 million Facebook users view a Facebook page powered by Pagemodo every month.
Webs now plans to enhance the Pagemodo service and offer it to the millions of small businesses that already use its products to create websites.
Founded in 2001 by the Mokhtarzada brothers, Webs has raised $23 million in funding from Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Columbia Capital.
Pagemodo (previously Fanbuilders) is an online tool for designing Facebook fan pages. With Pagemodo, any person or business can create a custom Facebook page for free, and present themselves and their products on their fan page without any technical or graphic skills needed. Pagemodo was founded by two Danish internet entrepreneurs, and was acquired by website-service Webs.com in February of 2011. Pagemodo relaunched as Pagemodo 2.0 on June 27, adding new features including user-customized templates, “Like” gates, video pages, coupons, maps...
Webs is a website creation service that lets users make fully functioning sites complete with several apps including blogs, photo albums, video galleries, calendars, and discussion forums. Users start by choosing from over 300 templates and can then add rich content and applications to their website via their WYSIWYG Sitebuilder. Small business owners can obtain custom domain names and email addresses to project a professional image. Entrepreneurs also benefit from user-friendly SEO, site statistics, and business apps like...
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