Kobo Reveals Last Month’s Funding Round: $50 Million
Borders-backed e-books seller Kobo has disclosed the amount of the funding it raised last month and it’s pretty huge: $50 million. It also s… Read more »
Ticketfly Raises $12 Million To Take On Ticketmaster
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Ticketfly, one of several startups trying to challenge Ticketmaster’s dominance of the ticket industry, has raised $12 million in a new fund… Read more »
Abacus E-Media Gets Management Buyout To Focus On Publisher Data
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Abacus e-Media, a vendor whose content management system powers some publisher websites, has been bought out by its own management. Read more »
Flipboard Raises $50 Million Round At A $200 Million Valuation
Social reader app Flipboard says it has raised a $50 million funding round at a staggering $200 million valuation. The new money, which come… Read more »
Elevation Partners Invests $32 Million More In MarketShare
Elevation Partners, the PE firm known for its big bets on *Palm*, Forbes, Yelp, and, more recently, Facebook is putting more cash into a les… Read more »
Targeted TV Provider Invidi Closes $49 Million Round With DirecTV
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TV ad targeter Invidi Technologies has closed a whopping $49 million fourth round with the addition of DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) as an investor. T… Read more »
KupiVIP Takes Record Funding To Be Western Retailers’ Gateway To Russia
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KupiVIP, a Russian online shopping club for luxury brands, is taking what its spokespeople tell us is a record investment for Russian e-comm… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-13-11: Nokia Cuts; MNG Lists; Ozura World / Tatto
Our look at some of the stories today in mobile: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) reportedly making big cuts in its R&D staffing; mobile marketing agency M… Read more »
Sugar Raises $15 Million In Part For More Acquisitions
Female-focused online media company Sugar has raised $15 million in a new round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners; existing b… Read more »
On Eve Of Beta Launch Of Game, Tiny Speck Raises $10 Million More
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Tiny Speck, the online gaming startup founded by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield and three other veterans of the photo sharing site, h… Read more »
TeePee Games Gets Strategic Backing From Turner Broadcasting Europe
TeePee Games, a games portal still in beta, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Turner Broadcasting Europe, the European wing… Read more »
KIT Digital Shopping Spree Continues, Buys ioko365 For $91.4 Million
Online video services provider KIT Digital is paying $91.4 million for 100 percent of the stock in cloud-based content manager ioko365. This… Read more »
Mediastay Funded For Online Games, Offers, Marketing
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Paris-based Mediastay, which deploys web games to take in money and consumer data for marketing purposes, has raised a $21.5 million VC roun… Read more »
Google Buys PushLife For $25 Million: A Piece In Its Mobile Music Strategy?
We still don’t have the official, bigger picture of what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) intends to do in its music strategy, and whether it will have w… Read more »
Random House Invests In Flat World Knowledge
A new high profile-backer for open source textbook firm Flat World Knowledge: Random House. The book publisher is investing an undisclosed a… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-08-11: iPad 2; GoldSpot; Camera Phones; Sprint/India
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Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: question mark over iPad 2 sale numbers at Best Buy; mobile advertising startup GoldSpot… Read more »
Ad Optimizer Rocket Fuel Takes Another $6.6 Million In Funding
Rocket Fuel, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to try improving the relevance of displayed ads, is taking on a third f… Read more »
Blinkx Buys Burst Media To Chase Higher Video Ad Rates
Video index and ads firm Blinkx is buying up UK ad tech vendor and network Burst Media for $30 million (£18.5 million). Read more »
LivingSocial Raises $400 Million In Huge New Round
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Four months after receiving a $175 million investment from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), LivingSocial has added $400 million in new funding. The huge… Read more »
Centaur Buys A Web Forum For Expats’ HR Managers
B2B publisher Centaur is still in the acquisitions game, adding another specialist professional community to its line-up. Read more »
Vice Media Takes Investment From WPP, Others
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Sir Martin Sorrell may not seem like the kind of chap who reads an online magazine about BMXing, bathroom assaults and art socks – but his W… Read more »
Mpire Changes Name To AdXpose, Raises $3 Million; Winfield In As CEO
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A month after rolling out a beta test for its new metrics and verification product aimed at, in part, improving mobile ad measurement, Mpire… Read more »
Vodafone Sells 44 Percent SFR Stake To Vivendi For £6.8 Billion. VZW Next?
At last, an end to Vodafone’s French saga, and another chapter in the mobile operator’s continuing sell-off of assets that it does not contr… Read more »
GameStop Doubles-Down On Digital With Two Buys
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Dominant video game retailer GameStop has purchased two companies as it continues to try to establish itself as a place where gamers will go… Read more »
M&A In Q1: Deal Values Are Rising
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The media investment banks Petsky Prunier and The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. have issued their dueling M&A tallies for Q1 and disagree on… Read more »
Video Ad Net TidalTV Raises $30 Million For Global Plans
Along with analytics providers, online video remains one of the hot places for VC firms to place their bets. That trend has already sent mil… Read more »
Money Flows To Mobile Startups: Appia, Apperian, Bubble Motion, And Others
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It may not be $41 million, but there are still serious funds flowing into the mobile sector at the moment, and the companies taking advantag… Read more »
Badoo WLTM Investors For Overseas Fun, Maybe Something More
So what do we learn, from the flattering cover feature in this month’s Wired UK, about Badoo, the London-based pay-for-prominence social dat… Read more »
Salesforce.com Buys Radian6 For $326 Million
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Customer relationship manager Salesforce.com is acquiring social media “buzz” monitor Radian6 for $276 million in cash and $50 million in st… Read more »
Online Video Ad Marketplace Adap.tv Raises $20 Million
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Adap.tv has raised $20 million in a round of funding, as money Read more »
Collective Buying Video Ad Firm Web TV Enterprise
In further online video ad consolidation, online ad tech firm Collective is making another acquisition – UK premium video ad network Web TV… Read more »
Computer Weekly Magazine Killed After 45 Years, As Website Is Sold
Yet another Reed Business Information selloff — it is selling its Computer Weekly magazine’s website and events to IT publisher TechTarget… Read more »
Cheezburger Network Buys Know Your Meme In ‘Seven Figure’ Deal
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Cheezburger Network, known for sites like I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL blog, and The Daily What, is making its first acquisition since raisi… Read more »
Mobile News Startup Newsy Adds $1.5 Million
Newsy, a mobile news video site, has added $1.5 million in its latest round of funding. The Columbia, Missouri-based startup’s anchors narra… Read more »
EBay Buying GSI Commerce For $2.4 Billion
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EBay is acquiring GSI Commerce as a way to bolster its own interactive marketing and e-commerce services in a deal valued at $2.4 billion. T… Read more »
Endemol Takes 50 Percent Stake In Holy Moly
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Former Big Brother producer Endemol UK has bought a 50% stake in Holy Moly in a deal which sees the secret identity of the celebrity gossip… Read more »
Canadian Classifieds Giant Sold To Apax Partners
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PE firm Apax Partners, which already has a big presence in classifieds in the U.K. through its holdings in Trader Media Group and the Yell G… Read more »
Thumbplay Sells Its Ringtone Business To SendMe Mobile
Looks like game over for Thumbplay as a standalone entity: we have learned that the mobile content company’s last remaining asset — its rin… Read more »
Price Tag For Journalism Online Could Go As High As $45 Million
RR Donnelley execs aren’t talking — neither are Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz, at least about deal details — but paidContent has learned… Read more »
Reviews Site Angie’s List Raises $54 Million
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Only six months after raising $22.5 million in a funding round, long-time reviews site Angie’s List has added another $54 million in funding… Read more »
