Strategic Acquisitions
• Sonic
Mountain, Inc. founded (Nov. 2006)
–Rick
Arturo (President) & Eric Rupert (COO), founders
–Focus
on podcast search & discovery
• Odeo
acquisition (May 2007)
–Founded
by Evan Williams (Blogger, Odeo, Twitter)
–Leading
brand in podcast space w/ large audience & content library
–Dick
Moore becomes lead investor & CEO
• FireAnt
acquisition (Aug. 2007)
–Desktop
media player that syncs to all mobile devices
–Founder
Josh Kinberg becomes VP Product Development
• Blogdigger
acquisition (Nov. 2007)
–Search
engine for blogs and syndicated content
–Founder
Greg Gershman becomes VP Search & Engineering