Open House? Google Has Also Been Eying Trulia in Real Estate Search Play.
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. According to sources close to the situation, along with its pending bid for Yelp, Google has been in on-again, off-again acquisition talks with...
View ArticleWeekend Update 12.19.09–Last-Minute Shopping Edition
Kara covered three Web companies this week, two with very 2.0 names and one about as Web 1.0 as it gets. BoomTown caught up with Mark Pincus of Zynga, the social-gaming juggernaut, right after the...
View ArticleTrulia's Pete Flint Chats About Everything (Except Google Interest!)
Last night, Trulia sent me a small pile of information about the fast-growth year the real estate search and information site had in 2009, despite the near-complete collapse of the U.S. housing...
View ArticleReal 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...
View ArticleZillow 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...
View ArticleSold: 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...
View ArticleBig-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...
View ArticleZillow 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...
View ArticleRealtor.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...
View ArticleZillow'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...
View ArticleReal 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...
View ArticleRealty 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...
View ArticleTrulia 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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