February 7th, 2013

Kred Owner (And Twitter Firehose Contester) PeopleBrowsr Buys Swaylo, The Loose Thread Of Facebook’s Threadsy Buy

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Some consolidation in the area of social influencer sites. PeopleBrowsr, owners of the social influencer analytics site Kred, is buying Swaylo, a specialist in measuring Facebook for influencer analytics and marketing campaigns. Swaylo, you may recall, was a business owned by startup Threadsy. The analytics service, called SwayloPro, was spun out as a separate company when Facebook acqui-hired→ Read More

March 19th, 2012

PeerIndex Picks Up $3 Million To Win Friends And Influence People (And Beat Klout)

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Whether you subscribe to the idea of social influence or not, services that mark — or try to mark — it are continuing to pick up momentum, and the latest example of that is PeerIndex, the UK-based social influence marketing platform, picking up a $3 million round of funding from a group of angel and private equity investors.

The Series A round was led by Antrak Capital with participation from… → Read More