Joseph Tartakoff
Oct 13, 2010 9:01 PM
ChaCha, which lets users call or text message a query and receive an answer shortly afterwards, has raised $20 million in a round of funding. The company says it reaches more than 15 million unique users a month via its mobile service as well as its website, and says it’s…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 26, 2010 9:28 PM
Citizen journalism site AllVoices has raised $3 million in a funding round, we have confirmed with the company. The site lets any user contribute a piece of news and also features a stream of mainstream news content from various feeds. The user contributed coverage seems haphazard, with pieces ranging from…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 5, 2010 2:57 PM
News Corp.‘s divestment on the digital side continues in earnest: first Photobucket, then Rotten Tomatoes. Now paidContent has learned that News Corp (NYSE: NWS). has offloaded its lesser-known Digital Publishing Group to VantagePoint Venture Partners, with Fox retaining a stake in the venture. The group develops and manages content management…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Sep 30, 2008 7:22 AM
A big second round for local search startup Zvents... The San Mateo, CA-based company has raised $24 million from *Nokia* Growth Partners, *AT&T*, and Navteq (in the process of being bought by Nokia), along with past backers Vantage Point Venture Partners and Red Rock Ventures. The company previously raised $7…
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David Kaplan
Jul 16, 2007 8:09 AM
Medical information search engine HealthLine has raised $21 million in second round financing led by GE/NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) Peacock Equity Fund. The round also includes strategic financing from Aetna Ventures, LLC, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, U.S. News and World Report, and previous investors VantagePoint Venture Partners and Reed Elsevier (NYSE:…
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