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Netvibes

Built personalized web dashboards with 20M users — acquired by Dassault Systèmes for corporate analytics while Google shut iGoogle and Facebook News Feed replaced the consumer homepage category

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Years-long decline before final shutdown · Fatal mistake: Netvibes built personalized web dashboards — RSS feeds, widgets, weather, news. 20M users. Dassault Systèmes acquired Netvibes in April 2012 to use it for corporate analytics. The consumer personalized homepage market was eliminated by Google closing iGoogle (2013) and Facebook News Feed replacing personalized info aggregation. Dassault pivoted Netvibes entirely to corporate analytics and abandoned the consumer product.

Founded	2005
Closed	2016
Country	France
Sector	Saas

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2005

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2012

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2016

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Netvibes raised €5M. 20M users. Dassault acquired 2012 for corporate analytics. Google shut iGoogle 2013. Facebook News Feed replaced consumer homepage. Dassault pivoted to B2B. Consumer product abandoned 2016....

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Netvibes raised €15M before netvibes built personalized web dashboards — rss feeds, widgets, weather, news. 20m users. dassault systèmes acquired netvibes in april 2012 to use it for corporate analytics. the consumer personalized homepage market was eliminated by google closing igoogle (2013) and facebook news feed replacing personalized info aggregation. dassault pivoted netvibes entirely to corporate analytics and abandoned the consumer product. ended it. See the documented cause, verified lesson and all failure signals.

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