{"id":12747,"date":"2012-05-17T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T09:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=12747"},"modified":"2012-05-17T13:19:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T11:19:18","slug":"pinterest-valued-at-1-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/12747\/pinterest-valued-at-1-5-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinterest valued at $1.5 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2138-Pinterest\">Pinterest<\/a>, the increasingly popular online bulletin board, raised $100 million in a financing round that values the U.S. start-up at $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The funding is led by Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten, with Pinterest&#8217;s existing venture-capital investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners also participating, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Pinterest could not immediately be reached by Reuters for comments.<\/p>\n<p>The social site where users can &#8220;pin&#8221; images and follow others&#8217; collections has surged in recent months to become the 16th most-visited site in the United States, according to the Web information company Alexa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinterest, the increasingly popular online bulletin board, raised $100 million in a financing round that values the U.S. start-up at $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,671,2358,69],"class_list":["post-12747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-online","tag-pinterest","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12793,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions\/12793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}