January 25th, 2012

Top European Blogging Platform OverBlog Acquires Timeline Creator Timekiwi

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Normally, Palo Alto companies buy European ones, but sometimes there are exceptions. Case in point: today OverBlog, a leading blog platform in Europe with over 32 million uniques according to comScore, is announcing it has acquired Timekiwi, a tool that helps you make a timeline using your social media postings.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but OverBlog says Timekiwi will be… → Read More

September 6th, 2010

Overblog marries Wikio to breed a European Google News for blogs

A trusted source has confirmed that French-blogging platform, Overblog, will soon be part of the Wikio family. Rumor has it that the growing Luxembourg-based news portal is apparently trying to develop European Google News for blogs.

For anyone who isn’t familiar with Wikio, all you really have to know is that it’s a news portal founded by Pierre Chappaz in 2005 after his previous company, → Read More

September 6th, 2010

Overblog and Wikio Just Married. Pregnant with a European Google News for Blogs.

A trusted source has confirmed that French-blogging platform, Overblog, will soon be part of the Wikio family. Rumor has it that the growing Luxembourg-based news portal is apparently trying to develop European Google News for blogs.

For anyone who isn’t familiar with Wikio, all you really have to know is that it’s a news portal founded by Pierre Chappaz in 2005 after his previous company, → Read More