Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 2, 2010 5:00 PM
Online genealogy firm MyHeritage.com has bought up rival OSN Group, in a move that it says will propel it into the “largest international site dedicated to families on the web.” That claim is somewhat questionable, since the 530 million profiles MyHeritage will now be able to claim is still swamped…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 22, 2008 2:45 PM
Kindo, a genealogy 2.0 site we first wrote about in February, is being bought by online family tree giant MyHeritage. The Putney-based site, at that time, got funding from Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), the Estonian-based VC house started by some of Skype’s founding engineers. The Accelerator Group’s Saul and Robin…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 8, 2008 2:43 AM
Tel Aviv-based family tree site MyHeritage, which claims to be “the second largest online destination for families”, has received a $15 million (£8.36 million) second-round investment from London’s Index Ventures. The site has come out of nowhere but is now available in 25 languages, claims 25 million members, five million…
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