{"id":138046,"date":"2010-01-04T22:53:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T03:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-01-05:article\/419-critical-path-acquires-mobile-social-content-aggregator-shozu"},"modified":"2010-01-04T22:53:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T03:53:29","slug":"critical-path-acquires-mobile-social-content-aggregator-shozu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/138046","title":{"rendered":"Critical Path Acquires Mobile Social Content Aggregator ShoZu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 1px solid silver; padding: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0; float: left;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-critical-path-acquires-mobile-social-content-aggregator-shozu\/\" title=\"Shozu CEO Chris Wade\" class=\"image_link image\" id=\"77995_364\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/images\/editorial\/f_small\/shozu-ceo-chris-wade-s.jpg\" alt=\"Shozu CEO Chris Wade\" width=\"150\" height=\"170\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Mobile social content aggregator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shozu.com\/portal\/index.do\" title=\"ShoZu\">ShoZu<\/a> has been acquired by mobile software firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticalpath.net\/\" title=\"Critical Path\">Critical Path<\/a>. Financial terms were not disclosed. <\/p>\n<p>London-based ShoZu was backed by over $36 million in funding from SEB Venture Capital and Atlas Ventures, among others; its most recent round was <a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-mobile-imagine-firm-shozu-raises-12-million-third-round\/\" title=\"worth $12 million\">worth $12 million<\/a> in early 2008. Dublin-based Critical Path is a private company backed by General Atlantic Partners and Cheung Kong Group.\n<\/p>\n<p>ShoZu chairman and CEO Chris Wade (pictured) will stay on post-acquisition in an advisory role for a short time, <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.techcrunch.com\/2010\/01\/05\/done-deal-critical-path-acquires-shozu-ceo-chris-wade-stays-on-as-consultant\/\" title=\"per TechCrunch\">per TechCrunch<\/a>; the rest of the company&#8217;s staff will join Critical Path full time. The company says it will continue to operate ShoZu&#8217;s apps for the foreseeable future, though the content-sharing technology will likely be added to Critical Path&#8217;s enterprise-facing products in the future. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileindustryreview.com\/2010\/01\/critical_path_acquires_shozu.html\" title=\"Release\">Release<\/a> (via Mobile Industry Review).\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"related\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-interview-shozu-ceo-chris-wade-vcs-wont-pay-for-free-apps-forever\/\">Interview: Chris Wade, CEO, Shozu: VCs Won&#8217;t Pay For Free Apps Forever<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-mobile-imagine-firm-shozu-raises-12-million-third-round\/\">Mobile Imager ShoZu Raises $12 Million Third Round<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/EkVEZ8F8CtcUf8bN18w4MsDPADk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/EkVEZ8F8CtcUf8bN18w4MsDPADk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/EkVEZ8F8CtcUf8bN18w4MsDPADk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/EkVEZ8F8CtcUf8bN18w4MsDPADk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=E7ktbDmpF5A:5NsUTZS2tII:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=E7ktbDmpF5A:5NsUTZS2tII:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=E7ktbDmpF5A:5NsUTZS2tII:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=E7ktbDmpF5A:5NsUTZS2tII:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=E7ktbDmpF5A:5NsUTZS2tII:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=E7ktbDmpF5A:5NsUTZS2tII:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=E7ktbDmpF5A:5NsUTZS2tII:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=E7ktbDmpF5A:5NsUTZS2tII:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/moconews\/~4\/E7ktbDmpF5A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile social content aggregator ShoZu has been acquired by mobile software firm Critical Path. Financial terms were not disclosed. London-based ShoZu was backed by over $36 million in funding from SEB Venture Capital and Atlas Ventures, among others; its most recent round was worth $12 million in early 2008. Dublin-based Critical Path is a private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}