Real Estate Site Trulia Acquires Movity
San Francisco real estate site Trulia said it has acquired Movity, a buzzy stealth start-up that searches and aggregates geodata for home buyers and renters, such as noise, crime and pricing, from a...
View ArticleTrulia Preps for IPO With Appointment of New COO
Trulia would not elaborate on its public offering plans, but issued a statement today saying its management team is now IPO-ready. The company, which lists properties for rent and sale online and...
View ArticleZillow Reportedly Hires Banker to Manage IPO
Zillow, the Seattle-based service that attempts to estimate the value of homes and rentals in the U.S., has hired Citigroup to manage its IPO, reports Bloomberg, citing three sources. The company was...
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Zillow and Trulia Release House-Hunting Applications for Mobile
Trulia and Zillow, two of the biggest competitors in the online real estate space, are continuing to push into mobile with the addition of more smartphone applications. Trulia.com said it is now...
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Sold: Zillow Buys Postlets to Build Up Real Estate Listings
Zillow has acquired Postlets, a company that has created a platform that makes it easy for real estate listings to be distributed across the Web. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. But as part of...
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Big-Data Start-Up Cloudera Kicks Hadoop Up a Notch
If you’re a company working with big data, there’s a pretty good chance you’re doing some work with Hadoop. Inspired by MapReduce, one of the fundamental technologies that makes the Google search...
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Zillow Files for IPO to Raise $57 Million
Seattle-based Zillow.com, a real estate information site, has filed its initial paperwork indicating that it is seeking to raise $57 million in an initial public offering. The filing is a little...
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Realtor.com Puts House-Hunting iPad App on the Market for Free!
The next turf war for real estate information sites has shifted from the Web to mobile devices. Realtor.com, which is the largest in the highly fragmented market, has launched an iPad application...
View ArticleZillow's iPhone App Helps You Know If You are Qualified to Buy
If only it had been around during the bubble. Zillow’s new app helps you calculate whether you can afford the house you are looking at. The real estate listing company’s second app helps you search and...
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Zillow's Valuation Nears $400 Million After Pricing IPO
Zillow will be worth close to $400 million once it goes public, according to documents filed with the SEC today. The Seattle-based company, which aggregates real estate listings online, has priced its...
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Real Estate Search Provider Trulia Sold on IPO Prospects
Trulia’s founder and CEO Pete Flint remains focused on taking his real-estate search company public, despite one of its closest competitors beating him to it this summer. Flint — who, ironically, is a...
View ArticleTrulia Hires CFO and General Counsel on Way to IPO
San Francisco-based online real estate company Trulia has rounded out its executive team by hiring a new CFO and general counsel before it plans to file for an initial public offering next year. The...
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Realty Bites: Agents Face Off Against Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com
The Internet has forever changed the newspaper industry, the music business and travel agencies. Now it’s real estate’s turn. Or at least that seems to be the case in what could be a developing feud...
View ArticleTrulia Files Paperwork Behind Closed Doors for IPO
Sorry, folks, there’s no open house today. Leveraging a new provision in the JOBS Act, Trulia, an online real estate listing service and Zillow competitor, has filed confidentially for a public...
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Trulia Set to Hang a "For Sale" Sign on Its Stock
Trulia, the second-largest real estate listings site in the U.S., is expected to go public this week. The San Francisco company’s shares could be priced as soon as tomorrow night, and start trading...
View ArticleTrulia Aims High, Prices IPO at $17 a Share
Analysts were expecting real estate marketplace Trulia to set its IPO price somewhere in the $14 to $16 neighborhood, but the market must have looked favorable, because TRLA will debut at $17 on the...
View ArticleTrulia Shares Surge as Much as 43 Percent in IPO
If only the housing market were doing so well: Trulia shares climbed as much as 43 percent to $24.24 a share today in its public market debut. The San Francisco online real estate listings company...
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Zillow Shares Dive on Revenue Outlook; Company Buys Mortgage Tool Firm
Zillow shares sank in after-hours trading after the Seattle-based real estate company disappointed investors with its fourth-quarter guidance. In Q3, Zillow recorded revenue of $31.9 million, up 67...
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Trulia Gets a Boost From a Strong Mobile Real Estate Market
A lot of companies aspire to have a mobile strategy, and then there are companies, like Trulia, that already have the beginnings of one. Pete Flint, CEO of the San Francisco-based online real estate...
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House-Snooping App Homesnap Launches Website, Plans Android App
Homesnap, a point-and-snap iOS app that gives users details and financial info about other people’s houses, is building some additions and slapping a new name on the mailbox. That metaphor not working...
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Trulia Thinks Outside the Search Box for Smarter House-Hunting
Buying a house is already stressful enough, so Trulia wants to ease some of the pain — at least when it comes to finding your perfect home. Today, the real estate site released a new feature called...
View ArticleTrulia Agrees to Buy Real-Estate Software Maker Market Leader for $355 Million
Trulia Inc.has agreed to acquire real-estate-focused software maker Market Leader Inc. for about $355 million in cash and stock as the real-estate-listing service looks to beef up its offerings. Trulia...
View ArticleBoom Time for Zillow, Trulia, Other Web Home-Search Firms
Prices of Bay Area homes are climbing quickly, but not as fast as the value of Bay Area technology companies that help people search for homes online. This year, for instance, the share prices of...
View ArticleTrulia Expands Services With Personalized Agent Search
Today, Trulia introduced a new feature called Find an Agent to help connect prospective home buyers and sellers with real-estate professionals. Though the company already offers an agent directory,...
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Wildfires, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Oh My! Trulia Adds More Natural Hazard Maps.
There are a lot of things to consider when searching for a new home. Aside from finding a place that meets your criteria and budget, you want to know about a neighborhood’s schools, crime rate and...
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