Valleywag (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
It's only a matter of a few hundred dollars, but after high acquisitive LiveUniverse acquired affiliate movie marketer Peerflix, blogger Eric D. Snider stopped receiving the until-then-regular... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
LiveUniverse , the online media holding company is continuing on its streak of picking up assets on the cheap, and has now bought Peerflix , once an online DVD trading service which morphed into an online advertising network focused on movie watchers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Peerflix received two rounds of funding, the first round from Battery Ventures, BV Capital and 3i (the amount...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
We're getting reports that Peerflix , the tumultuous company that switched from acting as a DVD-swapping service to an ad network, has been acquired by Brad Greenspan's LiveUniverse for an undisclosed amount (though we're guessing it's pretty low). We've asked LiveUniverse to comment. Peerflix was founded in 2004 as a "peer-to-peer Netflix", helping users to swap DVDs they owned for a dollar. The...
