eBay former executive to join in Trunk Club, a high-end clothing site
December 13th morning news, the U.S. high-end custom apparel website Trunk Club announced on Monday that the company has hired eBay former executive Rob Chesney as the company's COO.
The company is specifical provide services for high-end men's clothing O2O site which located in Chicago. And now, Chesney is as venture partner for Greylock Partners agencies, before this, he had served as eBay's Buyer Experience team's vice president, responsible the experience of the management on fashion, technology, media and household products.
At present, Trunk Club has 60 employees, the company projected to revenue of $ 5.5 million in 2011, and in September of this year, it's raised $11 million investment.
Gowalla closed the production to join Facebook
December 6th news, according to media reports, Facebook often through the acquisition of a company to get their human resources. Monday, Facebook announced, sign service Gowalla founder and engineering team will join Facebook, Gowalla also announced that it will stop service operations.
CNN and other U.S. media has disclosed the news. Facebook confirmed this and released a statement to the outside. Facebook said : "We're pleased to confirm that Gowalla's co-founders Josh Williams , Scott Raymond, and other Gowalla team will join Facebook's design and engineering team in January next year. "
Facebook said, in the period communicate with Gowalla team, both of them realized that they had quite a consensus: the development of excellent products, reach millions of users, allow people to create new ways to connect and share. After absorbing Gowalla team, their entrepreneurial inspiration will also enter into Facebook.
Gowalla and Foursquare is similar to a sign network services, it's including mobile client services applications and mobile sites, users sign in a location, then can get a virtual gift, which became the new means of brand promotion. So far, the service has more than 60 million users in the United States. Compared to other services, Gowalla also incorporates photo sharing and so on.
Facebook confirmed that it has purchased software company WhoGlue
November 29th news, according to media reports, Facebook confirmed this morning, it has purchased software company WhoGlue in earlier this month.
WhoGlue mainly to develop social networking software for membership organization. In 2001, WhoGlue submitted a patent application documents called distributed personal relationship management information system and method, three years later, Facebook officially established.
In 2009, the two companies for patent problems to court. In March of 2010, the lawsuit ending with a beneficial way to WhoGlue. WhoGlue founder Jason D. Hardebec revealed that two companies eventually reached a deal throught the lawsuit.
Facebook spokesman said: "we can confirm that we have acquired some of the WhoGlue technology. WhoGlue team won't merges into Facebook, they will still face organization development social network software." Some reports also said that Facebook also has acquired WhoGlue shareholders' shares, including Siemens'. However, Facebook's not give more details.
WhoGlue technology can make a private network operate in a large organization network, this technology can be applied for subnet functions, such as Facebook can not violating the privacy of users then make the Facebook Groups content penetrate to the entire Facebook network.