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Lunch with Arkayne iPod Giveaway Winner Tyler Hurst

Trevor Spinks 10 Mar 2010

The Arkayne team caught up with local Phoenix blogger Tyler Hurst of tdhurst.com today to grab some lunch and conclude the iPod giveaway. Notice the custom Arkayne wrapping paper! We met at the Arkayne office and after a quick tour headed to Earls in Scottsdale.

Check out the photos below:

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Congratulations to Tyler, and a big thanks to everyone who participated in our first contest. Keep an eye out for upcoming Arkayne giveaways!

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Got Funds? ShopIgniter And Arkayne

In: Blog| Press Releases

Tyler Metcalf 8 Mar 2010

ADOTAS, founded in 2003, is a premier news publication focused on the Internet advertising and media industry. ADOTAS’ emphasis is on providing the best news and information on media buying, planning, selling, technology and activities of the digital media business to the interactive advertising community. They are proud to have over 100 contributing writers delivered by the foremost experts in the field.

ADOTAS recently published an article about ShopIgniter and Arkayne’s recent close of funding. For those of you that are unaware of what ShopIgniter does, they’ve created a product that delivers an extensible, cloud-based ecommerce solution integrating store management, merchandising and product content across physical retail, branded web site and the social web. Or simply put, ShopIgniter allows your business to live within Facebook and Twitter.

You can see the original article below:

ADOTAS – Social media and ecommerce integration is an idea venture capitalist are opening their checkbooks to: ShopIgnite garnered $3 million from a Series A round of funding led by Madrona Venture Group

In addition, Madrona partner and former Yahoo! VP Matt Compton is grabbing the reigns as CEO of the startup. Madrona Managing Partner, Tom Alberg, who also sits on Amazon’s board of directors, will take a seat on ShopIgnite’s board.

The company’s platform allows retailers, wholesalers and brands to merchandise products on Facebook and hunt for customers on Twitter, as well as manage their online store functionality through a straightforward dashboard. ShopIgnite claims that its services boost online sales by as much as 30%.

In other funding news, interactive marketing software developer Arkayne scooped up more than $1 million in an initial round of Angel funding. The company’s Plugin SaaS offering links site visitors from one page to others within a single site or customer-designated network of sites by displaying relevant links. Arkayne will launch another product in the spring as well as an upgrade for Plugin.

Via Gavin Dunaway at ADOTAS.com

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Arkayne Gets $1 Million Seed Round For Link Recommendation Plug-In

In: In the News| Press Releases

Tyler Metcalf 5 Mar 2010

PaidContent.org was founded in 2002 by Rafat Ali in order to chronicle the economic evolution of digital content that is shaping the future of the media, information and entertainment industries. His belief is that in the near future, all media will be digital media, and PaidContent.org will help define sustainable business models and innovation within this sector.

Arkayne recently closed on a an Angel round of funding, and PaidContent.org was gracious enough to mention us in a recent article of theirs.

You can see the original article below:

Arkayne, which makes a plug-in designed to automatically add related links to web pages, has raised $1 million in an angel round. The plug-in scans all of the posts on a website in order to automatically suggest related items that a visitor should read. A version for bloggers with “moderate to low publication rates” is free, while Arkyane charges enterprise customers.

Arkayne says it’s also set to announce a second product soon which is “aimed at giving businesses ultimate visibility into their content strategy and how it stacks ups to their competitors, partners and target audiences.” Sounds ambitious.

The startup says it will use the new cash—which comes from the Arizona Technology Technology Investor Forum, among others—to “fund its quickly growing team” and “build out the organization’s infrastructure.” More on the Arkayne blog.

Via: Joseph Tartakoff at PaidContent.org

Twitter: @JosephTartakoff