Reddit, the online community that gained fame last year for a Q&A with President Obama, is said to be raising venture funding that could value the company at $400 million — and would give it ammunition to compete with other new-media players such as BuzzFeed and Tumblr. Read more »
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten wants to plug Pinterest in to purchasing, after leading a $100 million investment in the social pinboard curator. Read more »
Fotolia is taking a $150 million private investment as Shutterstock goes public to raise $115 million. Coincidence? Crowdsourced-photo rivals are bulking up to challenge microstock’s market-leading iStockPhoto. Read more »
Riding a new wave of growth, analytics startup Mixpanel today announced that it had raised $10 million in new funding from Andreesen Horowitz and other investors. Read more at GigaOM »
Higher education costs have skyrocketed by over 430 percent since the 1980s. Now two startups aim to make college courses more affordable. Coursera offers free online courses from universities like Stanford and Princeton. And a new tool from Akademos helps professors find less expensive — or free — textbooks for their courses. Read more »
PeerIndex, a service started by a former Reuters (NYSE: TRI) and Economist journalist to measure Twitter users’ influence in topics, is taki… Read more »
Internet TV box service Roku is prepared to take on a big and high-risk new investment to support its international ambitions. Read more »
Facebook’s value has risen to $100 billion since its IPO announcement, based on private trades of its stock. But could Mark Zuckerberg justi… Read more »
One of the more popular instant messaging mobile apps is taking a $10 (£6.32) million investment from a Russian investor. Read more »
Apartment-letting site Airbnb will get investment, endorsement and distribution from the publisher of Europe’s most-read newspaper. Read more »
Two European companies are this week taking venture capital in the games space… Read more »
A big endorsement today for mobile advertising from eMarketer: their analysts today said they were revising up their forecasts for U.S. mobi… Read more »
Some revealing numbers out from the analysts at Rutberg & Co. that point to how big mobile is in terms of tech investments today, and how co… Read more »
Polar Mobile — the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustr… Read more »
News Corp-controlled pay-TV firm BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying itself a foothold in the looming social TV field by acquiring 10 percent of the… Read more »
Already in our headlines today for a hiccup over its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Chrome campaign, Unruly Media, which makes video campaigns designed… Read more »
Almost a year to the day after it last took funding, audio-hosting service SoundCloud is taking a further round from new investors. Read more »
One of the consequences of the growth of social media has been the rise of that category of digital, interactive advertising referred to as… Read more »
Broadcasting, publishing and marketing group Cox Media Group is putting down some more roots in digital media investments: it has announced… Read more »
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TW… Read more »
If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector? Read more »
Outbrain, whose content recommendation engine lets publisher sites add related news links, is taking a $35 (£22.6) million fourth funding r… Read more »
A mobile wave of touchscreen devices has changed the way we interact with computers, but we still do an awful lot of traditional typing on t… Read more »
If the Kinect and the Wii popularized the idea of gestures controlling machines, the rise of startups working in the area will take the tech… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) shares opened four percent lower Tuesday after Monday’s after-market announcement that it is taking $400 million to fue… Read more »
Big funding round for the digital content subscription and billing specialist Zuora: the company has raised $36 million in a Series D round… Read more »
As online video’s growth shows no sign of slowing down, broadband video ad network BrightRoll has raised a $30 million third round to extend… Read more »
Barely two months after slowly exiting Myspace as its last CEO under News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), Mike Jones is debuting his new company, Science… Read more »
Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has had trouble getting its chips into the types of mobile devices that are transforming the computing experience, and it… Read more »
WPP and Revolution Capital are making a second investment in InGameAdvertising, the Shanghai-based Chinese in-game advertising network. Read more »
Irish developer Ideal Binary has raised €750k (around £642k) to fuel its ambitions in the increasingly competitive book-apps market. The… Read more »
Index Ventures, the London-based venture capital firm best known for investing in LoveFilm and Skype, has defied the eurozone debt crisis to… Read more »
What will be the most-used medium for consuming mobile content in the future: the web or apps? It’s a question that gets hotly debated, and… Read more »
Richard Branson is no stranger to investing in mobile media: among his more notable moves have been establishing *Virgin Mobile* years ago,… Read more »
Masabi, the London-based mobile ticketing startup that has nearly cornered the market for train services in the UK, has raised more funding… Read more »
The growth of mobile apps — there are well over one million on the market already — shows no sign of slowing down, and Appcelerator, which… Read more »
More VC money getting invested into one more independent mobile ad network: 4INFO has raised $14 million in funding in a round led by Paul A… Read more »
Hyperlocal startups in a crowded marketplace are testing new ways to stand out, and they discussed their strategies at the Street Fight Summ… Read more »
PlayJam, which distributes its own and now third-party casual games to TVs in Europe, is taking a $5 million first investment round to help… Read more »
Chinese digital ads measurement firm Moment Systems is taking a $20 million second round investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers… Read more »
