More Cash For Technorati: Blog Searcher Gets $7.5 Million Of $10 Million Fourth Round
Looks like the Technorati Monster has escaped again, gobbling up more cash… The perpetually “borked” blog search engine has raised another… Read more »
Looks like the Technorati Monster has escaped again, gobbling up more cash… The perpetually “borked” blog search engine has raised another… Read more »
WooMe, a service that offers speed dating via internet video, has raised a $12 million second round led by Index Ventures. NewTeeVee first r… Read more »
And here I thought social networking sites were already for dating. Zoosk, an SF-based startup, has raised a $4.1 million second round for a… Read more »
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) received a ton of press on Monday when Steve Jobs took the stage to unveil the iPhone 3G, but the Worldwide Developer Con… Read more »
Widgetbucks, a widget-based ad network, has raised a $10 million second round from DFJ and past backer Ignition Partners. The company has pr… Read more »
Sony (NYSE: SNE) is following up its deal to show BSkyB’s (NYSE: BSY) UK TV programming via its handset PSP console with a similar partnersh… Read more »
Capzles, a new company enabling for sharing and combining media (read: a glorified photo slideshow), has closed its first round of funding.… Read more »
Forticom, an Estonian company that runs major Lithuanian social net One.lT, has acquired a 70 percent stake in Russian Nasca-Klasa, for $90… Read more »
Forticom, an Estonian company that runs major Lithuanian social net One.lT, has acquired a 70 percent stake in Russian Nasza-Klasa, for $90… Read more »
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San Francisco-based 5th Finger plans to announce today that it has raised $7 million in venture capital from Starfish Ventures in Australia.… Read more »
TV placeshifting operator Sling Media plans to sell an iPhone version of its Sling Player through the iTunes Store after its alpha version h… Read more »
MediaFLO said it launched a special TV station today called EURO to broadcast live video coverage of the 2008 UEFA European Soccer Champions… Read more »
Proteus, an Arlington, Vir.-based company that’s owned by UK-based 2ergo, is launching a service this week called Via that helps brands, adv… Read more »
– IPG’s investment strategy: Forget Interpublic Group’s ad strategy; their investment activity is much more interesting… At the Deutsche… Read more »
Skyrock.com, one of the bigger online social networks and based out of France, is talking with several suitors about a sale, as it nears div… Read more »
Debra Aho Williamson, senior analyst, eMarketer put the question of “How do we get to good, solid metrics of social media and advertisers?”… Read more »
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Skyrock.com, one of the world’s largest social networks, is talking with several suitors about a sale, as it nears divestment from its partn… Read more »
Memorylink is suing Motorola (NYSE: MOT) for fraud, patent infringement and breach of contract over streaming wireless technology that is us… Read more »
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My Team Zone, a social networking service for amateur sports teams, has raised a $2.3 million first round from unidentified investors, accor… Read more »
Looks like Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes might be answering questions about the Bebo deal for awhile. He’s already admitted that t… Read more »
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has taken an unspecified equity stake in user-gen shopping channel The Talk Market. Amazon is also handling the site’s p… Read more »
Here’s one of the most anticipated fundings in a while… RockYou, a maker of social networking widgets, has raised a $35 million third roun… Read more »
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Monster is closing down its career assessment and social networking site Tickle, which it bought in 2004 for a price of up to $70 million. T… Read more »
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Why did Movable Type maker Six Apart sell blog community LiveJournal in December, just three years after buying it? At the World Association… Read more »
British broadcaster Channel 4 is overhauling its mobile web site in time for the launch of latest series of the reality TV show Big Brother.… Read more »
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– YouMail visual voicemail to launch in beta: Irvine, Calif.-based YouMail said today it is launching its free public beta of its visual v… Read more »
Updated: the actual total funding for this round is $5 million, not $2 million as reported before. British Columbia Discovery Fund invested… Read more »
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