Comcast Promises $20 Million Minority Venture Fund As Part Of NBCU Merger
As part of its lobbying efforts to get approval — and acceptance — for its pending merger with NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), Comcast (NSDQ: CM… Read more »
OpenFeint To Launch Android Game Network; Raises $4 Million
AuroraFeint, creator of OpenFeint, has raised an additional $4 million in capital from The9, a Chinese online gaming company, to help expand… Read more »
Google Boosts Investment In Chinese Music Service Top100
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The status of Google’s operations in China remains uncertain, but the company has nevertheless upped its investment in Chinese online music… Read more »
Phorm Finds Its Latest Funding – £2 Million In New Shares
Only last week, Phorm said it would try to raise money for its Brazilian operations alone, rather than risk diluting its London holding comp… Read more »
Ad Net Monitor AdSafe Media Raises $7.5 Million
Online ad placement verifier AdSafe Media has raised a $7.5 million second round as it preps new monitoring products and gets ready for an i… Read more »
Marketing Platform Bullseyehub Launched By Listings Guide After Funding
The founders of a London entertainment listings guide have started an online events planning and marketing service, having raised £500,000… Read more »
Politics Hackers MySociety Get $575k From Omidyar Network
UK web political engagement tool builder MySociety is getting a $575,000 grant from eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) founder Pierre Omidyar’s Omidyar Netwo… Read more »
Personal Finance Site Wesabe Closes Down
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Personal finance site Wesabe is shutting down, after months of operating on a “shoestring budget.” In a blog post, CEO Marc Hedlund says tha… Read more »
Mobile Enterprise Company Zenprise Raises $9 Million
Zenprise has raised an additional $9 million to expand sales and marketing efforts and invest in research and development surrounding its de… Read more »
Anti-Click Fraud Startup Click Forensics Raises $6 Million
Click Forensics, which provides tools to online advertisers and publishers so that they can reduce click fraud, has raised $6 million in its… Read more »
Foursquare Raises $20 Million In New Round (Finally)
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Foursquare, the extremely hot mobile check-in service, has finally raised a new round of funding. Since at least March, venture capital firm… Read more »
Ex-Forbes.com CEO Spanfeller Raising $2 Million For Web Publishing Startup
Former Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller left to create a company that can advise new and existing online publishers — but instead will be grow… Read more »
Entertainment News Site HitFix Raises $1.6 Million
HitFix, which is battling some much bigger players in the online entertainment news space, has raised $1.6 million in a round of funding fro… Read more »
Location-Based Mobile App Startup Geodelic Raises $7 Million
Geodelic, which is behind the popular location-based smartphone app of the same name, has raised $7 million in a second round of funding. Th… Read more »
Mobile Tech Provider Sencha Raises $14 Million
Sencha, an application development platforms provider, has raised $14 million in a first round of funding led by Sequoia Capital and joined… Read more »
Image Recognition Tech Provider IQ Engines Raises $1 Million
IQ Engines, an image recognition technology provider, has raised $1 million in its first round of funding, it announced Wednesday. The compa… Read more »
GetJar, The ‘Wal-Mart For Mobile Apps,’ Raises $11 Million
Fast-growing mobile app store GetJar, which says it has had more than one billion apps downloaded from its store to date, making it second i… Read more »
Extreme Reach Raises $9 Million For Its Video Ad Delivery Platform
Extreme Reach, which sells a digital platform that advertisers can use to deliver their video ads to TV stations and websites, has raised $9… Read more »
Resonate Raises $5 Million Second Round, Aims Ad Target At ‘Attitudes’
Resonate Networks has raised a $5 million second round for its “attitudinal” targeting, which sounds like just another word for aiming ads t… Read more »
Playdom Raises $33 Million From Disney’s Steamboat Ventures, Others
Social gaming startup Playdom, which has been on an acquisition spree ever since it raised $43 million in a first round of funding nine mont… Read more »
Brand-Only Ad Network Brand.net Raises $14 Million
Fast-growing ad network Brand.net has raised $14 million in a third round of funding. The company’s display and video ad network caters excl… Read more »
Blog Searcher Lijit Raises $6 Million Fourth Round
Lijit Networks, provider of search tools for blogs, has completed a $6 million fourth round funding designed to help it expand its publisher… Read more »
Vodafone Invests In Testing Startup Perfecto Mobile
Vodafone’s venture capital arm is making a “strategic” investment in Perfecto Mobile, an Israeli startup that lets companies test their mobi… Read more »
Mobile Visual Ad Network Apptera Raises $10 Million In Second Round
Visual mobile advertising network Apptera has raised $10 million in its second round of financing to continue to grow its business, it said… Read more »
Content Linking Firm Inform Gets $4 Million
Inform Technologies, which provides semantic search technology to several top media websites, including those of CNN, NBC and CBS Interactiv… Read more »
Social Gaming Network Raises $2 Million
Social Gaming Network has raised $2 million in its first tranche in what it expects to be a much larger second round of funding from Google… Read more »
Mobile Handset Analytics Firm Carrier IQ Raises $12 Million In Funding
Carrier IQ, the mobile handset analysis firm, has raised $12 million in a fourth round of funding. Bridgescale Partners led the round, and w… Read more »
UK Femtocell Chip Maker picoChip Raises $20 Million
UK-based picoChip, which supplies femtocell chips and software, has raised another $20 million in funding from existing investors Atlas Vent… Read more »
Re-Targeter Magnetic Raises $5 Million First Round
Just when you were wondering what the next big thing in online advertising would be after demand-side platforms, one possible answer is firm… Read more »
BaseKit Attracts $2.6 Million To Turn Images In To Websites
BaseKit, a production platform that turns Photoshop templates in to websites, has attracted a $2.6 million first venture round to launch its… Read more »
Video Game Net Machinima Raises $9 Million Second Round
Online game and entertainment network Machinima.com has raised a $9 million second round. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures. The Los An… Read more »
Gaming Firm Zynga Racks Up Huge $147 Million Round From Softbank Asia
According to separate reports from Nikkei, Bloomberg and * Read more »
Real-Time Search Startup Collecta Gets $4.7 Million More
The introduction of “real-time” results from social networking sites to all three of the major search engines hasn’t gotten in the way of Co… Read more »
Content Monitor Attributor Raises $3.2 Million Fourth Round
Content syndication watchdog Attributor has raised a $3.2 million fourth round as it seeks to market its anti-piracy services more widely. P… Read more »
BigDoor Media Gets $5 Million For White Label Virtual Goods Systems
BigDoor Media, which builds white-label virtual goods systems for publishers, has raised $5 million in a funding round. BigDoor’s platform l… Read more »
Reed Elsevier Ventures Leads Martini Media’s $6 Million Second Round
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Affluent ad-focused Martini Media Network has raised $6 million second round led by Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) Ventures. Granite Ventures and… Read more »
VC Investment In Digital Media Firms Falls To ‘More Normal’ Level
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Despite several big investments in online companies (Notably Yelp and UStream) venture capital backing of internet and software firms was fl… Read more »
Qualcomm Invests In Mobile Phone Camera Firm Anteryon
Qualcomm’s European venture fund is investing an undisclosed amount in Anteryon, a Dutch company which among other products builds component… Read more »
RockYou Gets $10 Million For Asia Expansion
RockYou, the big social networking app developer, has raised $10 million more in funding from SoftBank, which it says it will use to expand… Read more »
AudioBoo Lands Funding, Partners, Radio Deals
Sound recording service AudioBoo seems ready for its first big tilt at making itself in to a real business, having secured a first venture f… Read more »
