Angry Birds’ Rovio Raises $42 Million From Accel And Skype Founders
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Big news today from Rovio, the Finland-based developers behind the hugely successful Angry Birds mobile game: the company has picked up $42… Read more »
Resurgent StumbleUpon Raises $17 Million
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StumbleUpon, the content recommendation service that eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) purchased for $75 million in 2007 and then sold back to its founders… Read more »
Widgetbox Rebrands As Display Platform Flite, Raises $12 Million
Ad tech firm Flite (fka Widgetbox) has raised $12 million third round as it completes its rebranding from a community for widget developers… Read more »
Photo Social Network DailyBooth Raises $6 Million
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DailyBooth, a social network that lets users share photos in real-time, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding. DailyBooth users… Read more »
Chinese Real Estate Site Anjuke Raises $50 Million In Round Led By Baidu
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Chinese real estate site Anjuke is getting a huge influx of cash in part thanks to Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU). The search engine has led a $50 milli… Read more »
Fourth Wall Studios Gets $15 Million For Transmedia Production
Fourth Wall Studios, a firm that has created transmedia marketing extensions for movies like Watchmen and Eagle Eye, will launch an “alterna… Read more »
Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Salesforce Back HubSpot
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Three huge Silicon Valley names — Sequoia Capital, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures, and Salesforce.com — are investing in HubSpot, as part of… Read more »
Publishers, Waterstones Turn Book Discovery Network In To Retail Store
HMV (LSE: HMV), HarperCollins, Penguin and Random House are financing a new “social retail” service aiming to help readers find, buy and sha… Read more »
Invision Secures $8.5 Million Financing For Cross Platform Ad Sales
TV ad sales platform Invision is now looking to become a “cross-platform” provider of media buying and selling and has secured an $8.5 milli… Read more »
MaxPoint Raises $8 Million For Neighborhood Ad Targeting
MaxPoint Interactive, which helps advertisers target potential customers who live in specific neighborhoods, has raised $8 million. The comp… Read more »
Boxee Picks Up $16.5 Million To Expand Connected TV Offerings
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Cord-cutting has yet to hit the mainstream, but one service is beefing up its offering in an attempt to make it more of a reality. The conne… Read more »
RealNetworks’ Glaser Launches Video Chat Service SocialEyes
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) founder Rob Glaser’s latest project: a video chat startup. SocialEyes, which launches today, lets users find frien… Read more »
Motorola Gets In On Cloud Services With Catch Media Stake
With speculation building up that both Google and Apple are getting ready to launch cloud-based music services, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is maki… Read more »
Operative Raises $10 Million For ‘Talent Acquisitions,’ Global Expansion
Online ad management provider Operative Media has raised a $10 million funding round from ORIX Venture Finance and a private investment firm… Read more »
Grey Area Gets $2.6 Million To Build Out Location-Aware Gaming Business
Nokia’s stock may have dipped to 1998 levels in the last few days on worries about its new smartphone strategy with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT),… Read more »
BookRenter Raises $40 Million More For Online Textbook Rentals
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BookRenter, which along with rival Chegg, is trying to upend the textbook industry by getting college students to rent textbooks rather than… Read more »
Why Video Is So Hard To Monetize
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is CEO of WatchMojo, a video content producer. He tweets at @ashkan.
As my company, WatchMojo, celebrates its fifth… Read more »
Mobile Payments: Paydiant Gets $7.6 Million; Square Drops Its Fees
It’s still very early days for mobile payments, but with operators, handset makers and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) jumping on the NFC bandwagon, the… Read more »
Digital Chocolate Raises $12 Million For Mobile, Social Gaming
Digital Chocolate, the mobile and social gaming firm started and led by Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) founder Trip Hawkins, has raised $12 mi… Read more »
E-Mail Certification Startup Goodmail Systems Shuts Down
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Heavily-backed e-mail startup Goodmail Systems is shutting down. The company, which had raised more than $45 million in venture capital back… Read more »
Is Spotify’s $1 Billion Value A Bubble Bellwether?
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Kleiner Perkins is tag-teaming the already-reported $100 million Spotify investment with DST Global, taking a five percent stake for its hal… Read more »
From Russia With Two $1 Billion Deals?: Spotify And Yandex
The major Russian digital players continue to shape the online economy farther west.
In the latest examples… Read more »
Is The Second Dotcom Bubble Underway? Ten Telltale Signs
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Two years ago, anthropologist Sekai Farai was awarded a grant by Columbia University to study the technology startup community. Her timing c… Read more »
‘Open’ App Store GetJar Picks Up $25 Milion To Target Android Users
The strong third player in apps, GetJar, has today announced that it has picked up a massive $25 million round in a third round of funding,… Read more »
Songkick Raising $2 Million More Funding
Songkick, a web database of music gig listings which users can flag themselves as attending, raised $4 million in first-round funding back i… Read more »
RatedPeople Raised £3 Million For Tradesmen Recommendations
Yet another way in which “social” online is powering real-world consumer interactions – recommendation of local tradesmen.
Where 4iP-backed… Read more »
UberMedia Raises $17.5 Million For Its Growing Portfolio Of Twitter Clients
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UberMedia, which has accumulated a portfolio of Twitter clients in recent months and is in the process of acquiring TweetDeck, has raised $1… Read more »
On Heels Of Surphace Purchase, Outbrain Raises $11 Million
Outbrain, which purchased content recommendation service Surphace from AOL (NYSE: AOL) two weeks ago, has now raised $11 million in a third… Read more »
Kleiner Perkins Becomes A Facebook Shareholder
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Kleiner Perkins, which has backed some of the biggest names in tech, including Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), AOL (NYSE: AOL), and Google (NSDQ: GOOG)… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02.14.2011
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» Social gamer Zynga is looking to raise $250 million in new funding in a deal that could value the three-year-old start-up betwe… Read more »
Console Social Platform Raptr Takes $15 Million Funding
Mountain View-based Raptr, one of a few social systems for connecting console gamers through the web, has taken on $15 million more in ventu… Read more »
Speed-Reading The New Mary Meeker Deck About Mobile
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If you were concerned that joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers would sap uber-analyst Mary Meeker of her ability to generate wonk-tasti… Read more »
SocialGo Network Builder Raises £1.3 Million In Share Issue
Ning-like social network builder SocialGO has raised £1.335 ($2.14) million on London’s AIM stock market, in a fund designed to finance the… Read more »
The Opportunity Beyond Smartphones: Ipadio, Loc-Aid Target Feature Phones
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With smartphone penetration for some of the world’s leading operators still at less than 20 percent, developing mobile services for feature… Read more »
Gogo Plans An Expansion Into In-Flight Content
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Aircell, the parent of in-flight WiFi provider Gogo has raised $35 million in its latest big round of funding. The funding comes as the fast… Read more »
News Sharing Site Storify Gets Funding From Khosla Ventures
Storify, a service that lets users easily compile Tweets, photos and videos onto a single page that describes a news event, has raised an un… Read more »
Rdio: Funded To The Tune Of $17.5 Million; Warner Records’ Cavallo On Board
Last week we wrote about how social music service Rdio was picking up a round of funding from Mangrove Capital Partners. Today the company o… Read more »
Photo Sharing App Instagram Snaps Up $7 Million
Are you spotting a trend here? Hot on the heels of mobile photo sharing site Path picking up nearly $9 million in funding, Instagram, anothe… Read more »
Updated: Path Picks Up $8.65 Million; Reaches Two Million “Moments”
Photo sharing app Path has secured a Series A round of financing worth $8.65 million, with investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,… Read more »
Revision3 Adds Mark Cuban As A Backer
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Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner, has invested an undisclosed amount in Revision3. Cuban is a serial investor; he’s backed Superfeedr,… Read more »
