Kaboodle

Hearst Corp. to Acquire Social Shopping Site Kaboodle

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 8, 2007 - 12:30pm.

New York - Hearst Corporation announced on Wednesday that it will acquire Kaboodle, a social shopping community.

Web Collaboration Software Firm Kaboodle Raises $3.55 Million

Authored by Robert Spears on April 18, 2006 - 7:01pm.

Santa Clara, Calif. - Kaboodle, a start-up operating a free online service designed to simplify the process of collecting, organizing and sharing information online, said that it has raised $3.55 million in its first round of funding. Investors included Kanwal Rekhi, a managing director of Inventus Capital Partners; Ashish Gupta, the founder of comparison shopping engines Junglee, acquired by Amazon.com; early Google advisor Rajeev Motwani; Ron Conway, an early investor in both Google and Ask Jeeves; and Shea Ventures, Garage Technology Ventures and Alpha Group. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Kaboodle's service is designed to automatically extract the relevant information from any Web page, helping consumers make better choices about online shopping, travel and research.