AOL to take KickApps for $90million?
Reuters are reporting that AOL is taking a serious look at New York-based widget-maker KickApps for $90 million.
KickApps is a hosted platform that allows webmasters to quickly and easily deploy user-generated content and social networking functionality directly on their websites. Our company provides a “white label” solution, with all elements precisely matching a website’s existing look and feel. The KickApps platform is highly customizable, scalable and enterprise-quality.
By providing webmasters with a set of sophisticated media management, reporting and administrative tools, KickApps protects websites from pornography, copyrighted material and inappropriate user content that may hurt their brands or offend advertisers. The KickApps platform is a complete content management system and a viral syndication engine for your community (and premium) content.
Investors Softbank Capital, Prism VentureWorks and Spark Capital and others have dropped $17 million into KickApps.
