Online storage is back. Last September, EMC bought online storage startup Mozy for $76 million. Last week, Symantec signed a deal brewing since February to buy SwapDrive. A source close to the company says that Symantec paid $123 million. According to my source, the company made $13 million in profits last [...]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a somewhat negative post about an unlaunched startup in Boston called Swaptree. Ouriel wrote a follow up post comparing Swaptree (unfavorably) to a French service called SplitGames. Since that time I’ve had a chance to talk at length with Swaptree founder and CEO Greg Boesel about some of the [...]

The model behind new startup Swaptree, which will launch later this summer, is to allow people to trade media - books, music, dvds and videogames - directly with other users. As Rafe Needleman notes, here are other services out there that offer this - lala.com for music and peerflix for dvds. But those sites are [...]