Invision Secures $8.5 Million Financing For Cross Platform Ad Sales
TV ad sales platform Invision is now looking to become a “cross-platform” provider of media buying and selling and has secured an $8.5 milli… Read more »
MaxPoint Raises $8 Million For Neighborhood Ad Targeting
MaxPoint Interactive, which helps advertisers target potential customers who live in specific neighborhoods, has raised $8 million. The comp… Read more »
Boxee Picks Up $16.5 Million To Expand Connected TV Offerings
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Cord-cutting has yet to hit the mainstream, but one service is beefing up its offering in an attempt to make it more of a reality. The conne… Read more »
Update: Thumbplay Music Sold To Clear Channel; Fate Of Ringtone Ops Unknown
Update: Clear Channel announced that it is the media company buying the cloud-based music subscription service Thumbplay Music — a deal tha… Read more »
Yahoo’s Acquisition Tab In 2010: $159 Million
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) spent $159 million to purchase four companies last year, according to its just-filed 10-K. The company does not say how t… Read more »
NYTCo Sells About Group’s UCompare
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With the About Group experiencing some struggles on the revenue front, the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) has decided to sell that unit’… Read more »
RealNetworks’ Glaser Launches Video Chat Service SocialEyes
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) founder Rob Glaser’s latest project: a video chat startup. SocialEyes, which launches today, lets users find frien… Read more »
Mobile Interactive Group Buys Golden Bytes To Extend Marketing Footprint
Another chapter in the continuing consolidation mobile service agencies, and the growth of one agency in particular, the Mobile Interactive… Read more »
10-K Watch: AOL Expects Further Declines In Q1
AOL (NYSE: AOL) warned investors that it expects ad revenues on both its own properties and third party networks to “decline significantly”… Read more »
Motorola Gets In On Cloud Services With Catch Media Stake
With speculation building up that both Google and Apple are getting ready to launch cloud-based music services, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is maki… Read more »
Operative Raises $10 Million For ‘Talent Acquisitions,’ Global Expansion
Online ad management provider Operative Media has raised a $10 million funding round from ORIX Venture Finance and a private investment firm… Read more »
Collective Buys Video Ad Platform Oggifinogi
Online ad tech firm Collective has acquired rich media marketing services provider Oggifinogi in what appears to be the latest sign of conso… Read more »
Grey Area Gets $2.6 Million To Build Out Location-Aware Gaming Business
Nokia’s stock may have dipped to 1998 levels in the last few days on worries about its new smartphone strategy with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT),… Read more »
BookRenter Raises $40 Million More For Online Textbook Rentals
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BookRenter, which along with rival Chegg, is trying to upend the textbook industry by getting college students to rent textbooks rather than… Read more »
Why Video Is So Hard To Monetize
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is CEO of WatchMojo, a video content producer. He tweets at @ashkan.
As my company, WatchMojo, celebrates its fifth… Read more »
Perform Group Buying Soccer Site Goal.com
Digital sports content house Perform is buying up the Goal.com soccer site, as it looks to add a direct-to-consumer division to its business… Read more »
Mobile Payments: Paydiant Gets $7.6 Million; Square Drops Its Fees
It’s still very early days for mobile payments, but with operators, handset makers and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) jumping on the NFC bandwagon, the… Read more »
Digital Chocolate Raises $12 Million For Mobile, Social Gaming
Digital Chocolate, the mobile and social gaming firm started and led by Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) founder Trip Hawkins, has raised $12 mi… Read more »
E-Mail Certification Startup Goodmail Systems Shuts Down
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Heavily-backed e-mail startup Goodmail Systems is shutting down. The company, which had raised more than $45 million in venture capital back… Read more »
Eurogamer Buying IndustryGamers.com For U.S. Expansion
Eurogamer Network, the successful independent gaming news and reviews site started by two English brothers, is buying out Hammersuit, the pu… Read more »
Is Spotify’s $1 Billion Value A Bubble Bellwether?
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Kleiner Perkins is tag-teaming the already-reported $100 million Spotify investment with DST Global, taking a five percent stake for its hal… Read more »
News Corp. Acquires Liz Murdoch’s Shine & New Board Member For $673 Million
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As the head of the UK’s largest independent TV production company, Elisabeth Murdoch couldn’t join her father Rupert or brothers James and L… Read more »
One Of Russia’s Leading Sports Sites Sells To Ukraine
Russian sports news site Sports.ru’s founders are selling to United Media Holding of Ukraine for between $1.5 million and $2.5 million, RBC… Read more »
From Russia With Two $1 Billion Deals?: Spotify And Yandex
The major Russian digital players continue to shape the online economy farther west.
In the latest examples… Read more »
Is The Second Dotcom Bubble Underway? Ten Telltale Signs
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Two years ago, anthropologist Sekai Farai was awarded a grant by Columbia University to study the technology startup community. Her timing c… Read more »
BBCWW To Buy Out Rest Of Lonely Planet
BBC Worldwide is paying A$67.2m (£42.1m) to acquire the 25% of travel guide publisher Lonely Planet that it does not already own. Read more »
Next New Networks Files For $19 Million Financing; YouTube Deal Next Week?
Next New Networks is seeking $19.5 million through an equity financing, according to an SEC filing (via TechCrunch), as the sale of the webi… Read more »
Dex One Sells Business.com To B-To-B Lead Site Resource Nation
Dex One, which announced it would be shutting down its Business.com operations last fall, is now selling the brand name and related assets o… Read more »
ReachLocal Jumps On The Daily Deals Wagon; Buys DealOn For $10 Million
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ReachLocal is making its first purchase since going public last May, picking up DealOn, which offers daily deals of its own as well as white… Read more »
‘Open’ App Store GetJar Picks Up $25 Milion To Target Android Users
The strong third player in apps, GetJar, has today announced that it has picked up a massive $25 million round in a third round of funding,… Read more »
Songkick Raising $2 Million More Funding
Songkick, a web database of music gig listings which users can flag themselves as attending, raised $4 million in first-round funding back i… Read more »
RatedPeople Raised £3 Million For Tradesmen Recommendations
Yet another way in which “social” online is powering real-world consumer interactions – recommendation of local tradesmen.
Where 4iP-backed… Read more »
UberMedia Raises $17.5 Million For Its Growing Portfolio Of Twitter Clients
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UberMedia, which has accumulated a portfolio of Twitter clients in recent months and is in the process of acquiring TweetDeck, has raised $1… Read more »
On Heels Of Surphace Purchase, Outbrain Raises $11 Million
Outbrain, which purchased content recommendation service Surphace from AOL (NYSE: AOL) two weeks ago, has now raised $11 million in a third… Read more »
Web Polls Outfit ToLuna Gets £161 Million Private Buy-Out Offer
Online polling outfit ToLuna has received a buy-out offer from its third-largest shareholder that would take it off the public market. Read more »
Kleiner Perkins Becomes A Facebook Shareholder
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Kleiner Perkins, which has backed some of the biggest names in tech, including Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), AOL (NYSE: AOL), and Google (NSDQ: GOOG)… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02.14.2011
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» Social gamer Zynga is looking to raise $250 million in new funding in a deal that could value the three-year-old start-up betwe… Read more »
Bill Gross On UberMedia, The Power Of Twitter And Why He’s Acquiring
Why is Bill Gross buying up services built on Twitter? The Idealab CEO talked about his belief in Twitter when I interviewed him recently at… Read more »
BuzzMedia Buys Women’s Site The Frisky From Turner
BuzzMedia, the operator of a network of pop culture sites, has acquired Turner Broadcasting System’s women’s site The Frisky. Terms weren’t… Read more »
Console Social Platform Raptr Takes $15 Million Funding
Mountain View-based Raptr, one of a few social systems for connecting console gamers through the web, has taken on $15 million more in ventu… Read more »
