Media — paidContent

ThisNext Adds On To Third Round, Brings In Federated Media For Ads

By David Kaplan Jul. 21, 2010, 9:18pm Comments Off

Social shopping site ThisNext has raised some additional funding to the $1.2 million round from February, and says it will begin working wit… Read More »

TweetPhoto Gets $2.6 Million For Its Own Funding Hole

By Rafat Ali Apr. 13, 2010, 6:52pm Comments Off

Forget about all those clever headlines about “hole-filler” filling its own funding hole. With no discernible business model, and very tough… Read More »

Former MySpace Exec’s Lifestyle Startup Cocodot Gets Funding

By Rafat Ali Jun. 17, 2009, 2:37am 1 Comment

Former MySpace head of marketing (back from a different era, when MySpace ruled the roost) Shawn Gold has formed a new startup called Cocodo… Read More »

Buzznet Raises $12.5 Million; Changes Name To Buzz Media

By Rory Maher Mar. 19, 2009, 6:11pm Comments Off

Buzznet, which runs niche sites covering mostly entertainment topics (music, celebrity and others), has raised $12.5 million in a round led… Read More »

Donnerwood Media Merges Meez Brand With Pulse Entertainment; Gets New Funding, CEO

By Tameka Kee Jan. 15, 2009, 4:40am Comments Off

Several big changes at avatar-based social-networking service Meez … The company is merging with Pulse Entertainment, a mobile entertainme… Read More »

Blurb Raises $5 Million Third Round

By Tameka Kee Oct. 14, 2008, 3:09am Comments Off

Web-based self-publishing service Blurb has raised around $5 million in third-round funding, according to peHUB. Previous investors Canaan P… Read More »