LiveUniverse Acquires Free Home Page Service Pageflakes

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 14, 2008 - 6:57am.

Los Angeles - LiveUniverse, the online entertainment network led by Brad Greenspan, the founder of original MySpace parent company Intermix Media, has acquired free personal home page creation service Pageflakes for an undisclosed sum, TechCrunch reports.

Founded in Germany in 2006, Pageflakes is headquartered in San Francisco and has been backed by Balderton Capital.

Los Angeles-based LiveUniverse counts over 55 million monthly unique visitors across its video, social networking and music sites; the company also recently acquired video-sharing site Revver.

According to TechCrunch, Pageflakes CEO Dan Cohen, who previously headed the My Yahoo personal homepage unit at Yahoo, will continue to lead the company.

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Published in DMW Daily, April 14, 2008

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Alternative to Pageflakes

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on April 14, 2008 - 2:26pm.

An alternative to pageflakes is Odysen is http://www.odysen.com. A key difference is free-formatting widgets, allowing users to easily change the size the of widget to whatever they want (appropriate for large news feeds, 9 day weather forecasts, maps, etc).