Are you spotting a trend here? Hot on the heels of mobile photo sharing site Path picking up nearly $9 million in funding, Instagram, anothe… Read More »
Personalized Talk Radio Service Stitcher Closes $6 Million Second Round
By David Kaplan
Apr. 6, 2010, 6:00pm
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Stitcher, a service that lets talk radio listeners move programs to their mobile devices, has completed a $6 million second round funding.… Read More »
Former Facebookers Get $11 Million For Q&A Startup
By Joseph Tartakoff
Mar. 29, 2010, 10:15pm
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Quora, a Q&A startup founded by several early Facebook employees, including former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo, has raised $11 million in a… Read More »
Yahoo’s Revolving Door: Chief Technologist Leaves For Benchmark Capital
By Joseph Tartakoff
Mar. 19, 2010, 11:43pm
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Chief Technologist Sam Pullara is leaving the company, capping off a week of high-profile departures. At Yahoo, Pullara w… Read More »
Motorola, Others Invest In TuneWiki
By Joseph Tartakoff
Feb. 8, 2010, 11:20pm
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Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Ventures is leading a round of funding in social music startup TuneWiki; HillsVen Capital, Novel TMT, Benchmark Capital… Read More »
San Francisco-based Boku has raised a sizable round of funding totaling $25 million to build a mobile-payments company that they believe can… Read More »
Cloud-Based Gamer Gaikai Raises $5 Million First Round
By Tameka Kee
Jan. 6, 2010, 11:01pm
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Cloud-based online gaming startup Gaikai has raised $5 million in a first round of funding, per an SEC filing. The company declined to comme… Read More »
Online Gamer Riot Games Lands $8 Million Funding, Partners With Tencent
By Tameka Kee
Sep. 9, 2009, 10:11pm
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Riot Games has raised $8 million in funding from Benchmark Capital, FirstMark Capital, and Chinese online media company Tencent. Tencent is… Read More »
The deal activity in the content delivery industry continues to tick, as another new CDN gets funded, this time by two VC heavyweights: Cote… Read More »
Micro-blogging service and media darling Twitter has raised its third round of funding. Co-founder Biz Stone announced the news in a blog po… Read More »
Glassdoor Gets $6.5 Million In Latest Round
By Tameka Kee
Oct. 28, 2008, 4:46pm
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Career-focused social net Glassdoor.com has raised $6.5 million in a second round of funding led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Existing investor… Read More »
Meanwhile, the widget economy is functioning in a parallel, oblivious universe: Widget distribution firm Gigya has received $11 million in i… Read More »
More Must Reads
By Matt Kapko
Jul. 10, 2008, 10:19pm
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Riot Games, a two-year-old independent games developer and publisher, has received $7 million in a round of funding from Benchmark Capital a… Read More »
Lithium Technologies, an Emeryville, CA-based provider of white-label social networking tools, has raised $12 million in its second round fu… Read More »
By Rafat Ali
Jun. 19, 2008, 11:09pm
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This is the month of senior executives leaving the starts and big media and Internet companies: just yesterday the CEOs of Hearst and Hachet… Read More »
Grockit, a stealth startup developing an MMO for online learning, has raised an $8 million second round led by Integral Capital Partners and… Read More »
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