• July 29th, 2011

    CA Buys Website And App Monitoring Startup WatchMouse

    WatchMouse Picture

    IT software giant CA Technologies has acquired website monitoring startup WatchMouse. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

    WatchMouse product tests the availability of websites, services and applications and monitors the performance and security of sites by simulating regular visits from its monitoring network of 60 stations in more than 40 countries. WatchMouse will tell a you if visitors can reach your site, if the basic interactions and click paths work, and whether they do so within the clients performance limits. → Read More

    March 25th, 2011

    A Look At The Uptime Of 50 Popular APIs

    APIs are like websites: they are available most of the time, but unfortunately not all the time.

    Website and application performance monitoring startup WatchMouse monitored the uptime of 50 of the most popular APIs (as ranked by ProgrammableWeb) for a month to see which are the most reliable – and which ones are rather flaky.

    WatchMouse, which also publishes API statuses in real time at API-Status.com, found that ten of them performed without a single hitch between February 16th to March 17th, including goo.gl, Quora, eBay, Google Maps and Basecamp. → Read More

    May 4th, 2010

    WatchMouse launches GeoBrand, PPC brand abuse monitoring tool

    [Holland] WatchMouse, the website performance monitoring company, has launched its new GeoBrand service today. It’s designed to detect “brand abuse” in search-based keyword advertising and follows the recent European Court ruling on the LVMH vs Google case which places the onus on the brands themselves to monitor for trademark infringements.

    The service targets pay-per-click (PPC) advertising on Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft Bing in over 30 countries and offers an automated way for brands to be alerted that a competitor is purchasing keyword advertising which potentially infringes on their trademark, listing offenses by country and specific search engine. → Read More

    May 4th, 2010

    End The Abuse! GeoBrand Is A New PPC Monitor For Nervous Brands

    WatchMouse, the website performance monitoring company, has launched its new GeoBrand service today. It’s designed to detect “brand abuse” in search-based keyword advertising and follows the recent European Court ruling on the LVMH vs Google case which places the onus on the brands themselves to monitor for trademark infringements.

    The service targets pay-per-click (PPC) advertising on Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft Bing in over 30 countries and offers an automated way for brands to be alerted that a competitor is purchasing keyword advertising which potentially infringes on their trademark, listing offenses by country and specific search engine. → Read More

    March 17th, 2010

    URL Shorteners Slow Down The Web – Especially Facebook's FB.me

    It’s hard to imagine a Web sans URL shortening services nowadays but you can rest assured that they’re here to stay – for better or worse. Question is: how do the likes of bit.ly, TinyURL and Goo.gl score in terms of speed and availability? That’s exactly what Dutch startup WatchMouse sought to find out. → Read More

    January 19th, 2010

    WatchMouse Monitors 26 Popular APIs So You Don't Have To

    Website monitoring startup WatchMouse is launching a new service dubbed API-status.com today, a website that displays realtime availability and performance of popular, public APIs.

    The lists of monitored APIs consists of 26 of the most heavily trafficked Web services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Bing, Facebook, Twitter, SalesForce, YouTube, Amazon, eBay and others. → Read More

    Upcoming Events

    E3 2012

    Los Angeles, CA

    Disrupt SF 2012

    San Francisco, CA

    Real-Time
    Crunchbase

    True&Co — Received $2M in Seed funding from First Round Capital, SoftTech VC, SoftBank Capital, Aileen Lee, and Ellen Levy
    5.1.2012
    True&Co — Company added to CrunchBase
    5.30.2012
    Ellen Levy — Invested in True&Co.
    5.1.2012
    Compliance11 — Acquired by Compliance11, Inc..
    11.15.2012
    Facebook — Went public with stock symbol NASDAQ:FB.
    5.18.2012
    Compliance11 — Acquired by Compliance11, Inc..
    11.15.2012
    Bolt | Peters — Acquired by Facebook for $50M.
    6.21.2012
    Actual Systems — Acquired by Solera Holdings.
    5.29.2012
    5.29.2012
    ServerOrigin — Acquired by Black Lotus.
    5.29.2012
    True&Co — Received $2M in Seed funding from First Round Capital, SoftTech VC, SoftBank Capital, Aileen Lee, and Ellen Levy
    5.1.2012
    5.30.2012
    Optimizely — Received Series A funding from Battery Ventures, Google Ventures, and InterWest Partners
    5.30.2012
    Draker — Received $475k in Debt funding
    5.30.2012
    5.30.2012
    Ellen Levy — Invested in True&Co.
    5.1.2012
    SoftTech VC — Invested in True&Co.
    5.1.2012
    Aileen Lee — Invested in True&Co.
    5.1.2012
    First Round Capital — Invested in True&Co.
    5.1.2012
    SoftBank Capital — Invested in True&Co.
    5.1.2012
    Facebook — Went public with stock symbol NASDAQ:FB.
    5.18.2012
    True&Co — Company added to CrunchBase
    5.30.2012
    InstaEDU — Company added to CrunchBase
    5.30.2012
    smartDIGITAL — Company added to CrunchBase
    5.30.2012
    Smotri.com — Company added to CrunchBase
    5.30.2012
    Mail.ru Video — Company added to CrunchBase
    5.30.2012
    PayPal Media Network — Product added to CrunchBase
    5.29.2012
    Trivia Party — Product added to CrunchBase
    5.29.2012
    ACT for Lotus Notes CRM — Product added to CrunchBase
    5.29.2012
    VMobile - Mobile CRM — Product added to CrunchBase
    5.29.2012
    CrunchBase