- Imaginova
Imaginova Corporation is a U.S. digital media and commerce company based in
New York City . The company, which was started in 1999 as "Space.com " byCNN business anchorLou Dobbs [ [http://www.redherring.com/Home/17905 "Red Herring", 2006] ] , later became known as Space Holdings Corp. Dan Stone became President, Chief Executive Officer and a board member in 2002 [ [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117869234.html?categoryid=30&cs=1 "Variety", 2002] ] and renamed the company to Imaginova in 2004 [ [http://www.space.com/news/imaginova_040524.html Space.com, 2004] ] .Imaginova promotes itself as the preeminent destination for the “intellectually curious.”
It is comprised of the following media properties and
E-Commerce retailers:*
LiveScience LiveScience.com
*Space.com Space.com
*Newsarama Newsarama.com
*Aviation.com Aviation.com
*Space News SpaceNews.com
*LiveScienceStore.com LiveScienceStore.com
*Orion Telescopes & Binoculars OrionTelescopes.com
*Starry Night Store StarryNightStore.comImaginova is a news provider, via the Imaginova Network of media properties, and syndicates its original content to the following news portals:
Yahoo !,MSNBC ,AOL andFoxNews .com.Imaginova is also the developer of Starry Night software and widgets for
Mac OS X ,Microsoft Windows ,BlackBerry ,iPhone andiPod touch .The company is headquartered in New York City with offices and news bureaus in California, Virginia, Toronto and Paris.
Imaginova is backed by investors:
Blue Chip Venture Capital ;Gannett Co., Inc. ;RedShift Ventures ;Steelpoint Capital Partners andVenrock Associates . In August 2006, the company raised $15M in growth equity financing [ [http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/2006/01/17/space-investing-imaginova_cx_bn_0118space-imaginova.html Forbes.com, 2006] ] .References
External links
http://www.imaginova.com
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