Killerstartups acquires Startups.com for half a million dollars.
We've always considered Killerstartups,a startup featuring website,an intelligent player in its arena not only because it monetizes its readership effectively through advertisements but also because it proposes a plan that's lucrative from a startup's perspective and brings Killerstartups $500/month from every premium customer(or startup).
And they've shown quite a catalytic growth in the past two years.They're currently bringing more than a million uniques every month and have been effectively monetizing their services as well.
But today itself,they've commited the unexpected(and equally immaturish)....
They have acquired Startups.com for nearly $0.5 Mn...
If 'cuil' refines its search indexing and Microsoft plans to acquire it and fight out with Live-cuil against Google,they may win against the current dominant
There has already been a lot of talks of cuil's claims and then it's performance from Day 1 of their launch but one thing is crystal clear...
It certainly takes a lot of guts to even think of competing in a market(we mean,online search industry),which is already been over-saturated and even bigger guts to challenge the 'Titan of Internet Industry' on its homeground.
'Cuil' was in the limelight much before it's month old release(Launch date : 27th July) for solely one reason...they were openly challenging the 'Whale of Search Industry' and were claiming to make searching even more intense,effective,deeper and gruelling.
Whoever has tasted this 'shouting kid' in the past month must
