ViKi, an online video site that licenses the rights to international shows and then adds subtitles to them in various languages, has raised $4.3 million from a series of big-name venture capital firms and media executives. ViKi users can select to see subtitles for hundreds of shows in dozens of…

Mixed Media Labs, which is behind picplz, an online and mobile app that lets users add special effects to photos, has raised $5 million from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. Founder Dalton Caldwell also started social music site imeem and subsequently sold that company to MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) a year ago.…

Kno, which is making an e-reader designed for students, has raised $46 million in additional equity and debt financing. Known until this spring as Kakai, the startup unveiled its device at the AllThingsD conference this year. It has two large side-by-side touchscreen displays and is supposed to be especially useful…

Foursquare, the extremely hot mobile check-in service, has finally raised a new round of funding. Since at least March, venture capital firms (and large internet companies) have been courting Foursquare, which has been growing very rapidly; at one point, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) was said to have offered as much as…

Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has raised $5 million in funding for his new online gaming venture, Tiny Speck. Word that Butterfield, along with some other former Flickr employees, including chief architect Cal Henderson, were working on a gaming startup first surfaced last spring. The company is developing a massively multiplayer…

Skype is finally about to be sold by Ebay to an investor group, which includes Andreessen Horowitz, the new VC firm headed by Marc Andreessen, reports NYT, citing sources. The deal will be announced tomorrow, it says. The possible buyout was first reported by Techcrunch on Friday last week. The…