WPP Buying Further In To Chinese Online Ad Measurement
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Chinese digital ads measurement firm Moment Systems is taking a $20 million second round investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers… Read more »
Phorm Raises Yet Another £30 Million, Valuing Itself At £100 Million
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Phorm, the controversial targeted web ads company that fled to Brazil after privacy concerns blocked its domestic UK fortunes, is taking yet… Read more »
Crowdsourced Navigation App Waze Takes $30 Million To Launch In China
Remember the days when GPS satellite navigation apps were one of the most expensive categories of mobile apps? Some still have premium price… Read more »
LocalResponse Raises $5 Million For ‘Check-In’ Ads
LocalResponse, the “check-in” ad network formerly known as Buzzd, has raised $5 million to build up its sales team as it tries to attract ag… Read more »
Is Consolidation In Mobile Ads Overrated? Madvertise Raises $10 Million
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We have seen some evidence of consolidation in mobile advertising, but if anything, there seem to be even more signs of investors looking to… Read more »
Halo Networks Gets £1.6 Million First Round To Offload Mobile Data To WiFi
The high cost of mobile data — not just for consumers but for mobile operators facing huge traffic on their networks with the rise of smart… Read more »
Ad Optimizer Yieldex Raises $10 Million From Hearst, Amazon
Yieldex, which offers services designed to protect publishers’ pricing from the the downward pressure often brought by ad exchanges and ad n… Read more »
TechMediaNetwork Raises $33 Million For Acquisitions
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Tech and science publisher TechMediaNetwork has raised $33 million in a second round as it looks to add its content roster with a series of… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-26-11
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» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks (NYT)
» Mediabank Merges With Donovan; Combined Company… Read more »
Love It Or Hate It, Business Insider Raises $7 Million Round
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Financial and media news online site network Business Insider has raised $7 million for what founder and editor Henry Blodget says will be a… Read more »
Adchemy Gets Microsoft Backing; Krux Funding Expands Ties To IDG
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With audience buying becoming the primary focus on online ad spending, analytics is likely to remain a hot funding area for some time. And t… Read more »
Top10.com Scores $3.5 Million For Its Website Of Lists
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How much does it cost to make a website full of other people’s lists? $3.5 million, if you are Top10.com. Read more »
Africa’s Umuntu Gets $1 Million To Build Web And Mobile Portals
Of all the markets, Africa is perhaps talked about least in a digital media context. Now Umuntu Media, which operates the iNamibia and iZamb… Read more »
Mobile Ad Network InMobi Takes Huge $200 Million Investment From Softbank
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Very big news today for the mobile advertising world, and a major boost for the mobile ad network InMobi: the company has just announced tha… Read more »
MyVideoRights Takes Money And Changes Name For Global Device Assault
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The online video rights exploitation company helmed by former The Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie’s son has raised £2.75 million to fund develo… Read more »
Community Writing Site Wattpad Raises $3.5 Million In First Round Funding
Wattpad, an online writing community that lets users share and collaborate on stories across platforms including mobile apps, has closed a $… Read more »
Adfonic Raises £4.7 Million To Grow Its Mobile Ads Auction Business
If you think Android is a fragmented marketplace, take a look at mobile advertising: while there are clearly a few very big players like Goo… Read more »
Chinese Game Firm Perfect World Puts Up $100 Million For Investment
It only seems like yesterday online games were investment targets themselves. Now Chinese online game operator Perfect World (NSDQ: PWRD) is… Read more »
The Market For Plastic Discs Is Supposedly ‘Resurgent’
The world’s second largest maker of optical-media storage discs has approved a plan to raise $125 million in equity or bonds, as it tries to… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-02-11
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» As Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Price Change Kicks In, Starz Says It Won’t Renew Deal (paidContent)
» Techcrunch’s Arringto… Read more »
TechCrunch’s Arrington Steps Down To Start CrunchFund
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TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington may be raising a $20 million venture capital fund focused on early-stage technology companies, reported, citi… Read more »
Big Money For SMS-Based Social Media: India’s SMS GupShup Takes $10 Million
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With a lot of the focus in the mobile universe on Android, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and what is happening in the smartphone segment, it’s easy to… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-31-11: Amazon Tablet; China iOS; Apple/Wikileaks; FilmOn
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Amazon could have two sizes of tablet in mind for a launch: a seven-inch mod… Read more »
Ad Monitor DoubleVerify Raises $33 Million Third Round
Ad delivery monitor DoubleVerify has raised a large $33 million third round funding, which the company expects to use to build up its conten… Read more »
Bleacher Report Raises $22 Million, Aims For New Verticals
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Sports media site Bleacher Report has been on a big publicity push this week and now it’s clear why: The company announced today that it’s r… Read more »
Corbis Takes A Piece Of User-News Service Demotix
Corbis and the user-contributed photojournalism site Demotix are expanding the syndication deal they struck in March in to an investment.
T… Read more »
Confirmed: Spotify Valued At $1.1 Billion For Global Push
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Spotify raised about €69 ($98.15/£59.97) million at a valuation of €774 ($1101.02/£672.68) million this summer for its roll-out in to… Read more »
iPad Textbook Publisher Inkling Raises $17 Million
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Just in time for the back-to-school season, iPad interactive textbook publisher Inkling has secured $17 million in Series B funding from inv… Read more »
Spanfeller Media Group Raises $6 Million Second Round
Spanfeller Media Group, which runs foodie site The Daily Meal has secured a $6 million second round funding led by VantagePoint Capital Part… Read more »
In-Game Ad Provider SupersonicAds Raises $4.2 Million
Social gamer SupersonicAds has raised a $4.2 million first round as the company looks to continue it international expansion and the growth… Read more »
Mojiva Picks Up $25 Million To Grow Its Mobile Advertising Network Business
There has been some big consolidation in the mobile advertising market, but here’s another vote in favor of the independents: mobile adverti… Read more »
Twitter Analytics Firm DataSift Picks Up $6 Million In First Round
DataSift, a UK startup that aggregates and analyses data from social media sites like Twitter, has picked up $6 million in a first round of… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-08-11
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» More iPhone 5 Rumors Abound, While Jailbreakers Find A Hole In Today’s iOS (paidContent)
» News Corp (NSDQ: NWS).… Read more »
Social Media VC Funding Jumps As Investors Chase IPO Boom
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Venture capitalists poured $2.23 billion into hot social media companies in the second quarter of 2011, according to Wedbush Securities, up… Read more »
Larry Summers Brings Clout (And Some Baggage) To Silicon Valley
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Is Larry Summers about to create waves in Silicon Valley? Two weeks after joining the board of Square, the former Treasury Secretary and Har… Read more »
Mobile Video In Focus For Users And Investors: Animoto Picks Up $25 Million
It’s well known that video services account for some of the most intensive use of mobile data networks — and while some of that is down to… Read more »
Not So Square Anymore: Dorsey’s Payment Startup Gets $100M, Valued At $1Bn
The game is on for mobile payments. Square has announced that it has picked up $100 million in a third round of funding, which now values th… Read more »
Seattle Crowd Backs Mobile App Zapd In New $3.5 Million Round
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Mika Salmi described the new backers of PressPlane, the parent company of new mobile app Zapd, as a “who’s who” of Seattle in a note to me a… Read more »
Latest Investment Values Facebook At $70 Billion
Is Facebook worth $70 billion? Investment fund GSV Capital thinks so — the firm announced Monday that it has purchased $6.6 million worth o… Read more »
In The Money: Google’s NFC Partner ViVOtech Raises $24 Million
We’ve yet to see mass-market adoption of NFC-based mobile payment services — or, indeed, of any point-of-sale mobile payment systems — but… Read more »
