Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdry says that Google is stepping up its efforts to buy VC-backed SimplyHired. The job search engine most recently made news with the launch of its job-o-matic which creates widgets for bloggers to create their own job boards and they also recently did a deal to power MySpace jobs.
SimplyHired is led by Gautam Godhwani, who sold AtWeb, an Internet site optimization firm to AOL/Netscape in 1998. President Dion Lim co-founded of Epinions.com (now Shopping.com) ans was COO at Sina.com. Last April, News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media and Foundation Capital invested $13.5M in Simply Hired. A year earlier the company raised $3M in angel funding from early Google investors Rajeev Motwani and Ron Conway as wells as Kanwal Rekhi, and Garage Technology Ventures.
