http://www.takeaplunge.com Ventures, Start Ups, Businesses Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:30:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.takeaplunge.com/oneguyonegirl-aims-to-keep-online-dating-simple/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/oneguyonegirl-aims-to-keep-online-dating-simple/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:04:12 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3107 Online dating sites can be very hard to use. You need to do so many things- first create a perfect profile and search through hundreds of thousands of profiles to find your dream partner on each site (sites like Match.com, may have millions of users ). A new startup, OneGuyOneGirl, wants to make the process [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/oneguyonegirl-aims-to-keep-online-dating-simple/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/repairpal-grabs-4-million-for-google-health-for-cars/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/repairpal-grabs-4-million-for-google-health-for-cars/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:30:03 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=2760 RepairPal is an auto repair and maintenance information site. This startup has raised $4 million in Series A funding led by Tugboat Ventures, with Rick Keister, Mark Goines, David Strohm and Michael Torres. The site is somewhat similar to a Google Health for cars. You can find price estimates for repair jobs and various parts for [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/repairpal-grabs-4-million-for-google-health-for-cars/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/google-gets-admob/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/google-gets-admob/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:54:13 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=2540 Google is buying mobile ad startup AdMob for $750 million. This is Google’s largest acquisition after its $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick in March, 2008. This is also the third-largest ever after the $1.65 billion YouTube acquisition in 2006. Google wants to do with mobile Web advertising like it is dominating search advertising and AdMob has [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/google-gets-admob/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/twitter-continues-to-battle-ddos-attack/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/twitter-continues-to-battle-ddos-attack/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:30:17 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=1806 It’s been more than two days after Twitter and other social networking sites like Facebook experienced a complete outage due to a distribute denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. These sites are still fighting a surge in traffic related to the attack. Twitter has already taken up a few steps to fight sudden surge in traffic and ensure that [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/twitter-continues-to-battle-ddos-attack/feed/ 0