Millennial Media Triples Sales, Raises $27.5M For More Acquisitions
Yesterday, we saw one more analyst house put its weight behind the mobile advertising trend. Today, one of the bigger independent mobile ad… Read more »
VC Money Keeps Pouring In For Ad Targeters: Turn Raises $20 Million
Turn is the latest ad tech firm to greet the new year with a whopping sum of venture capital. The Silicon Valley-based company has raised $2… Read more »
Hearst And Google Ventures Back A TV Check-In Startup
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Hearst Interactive Media and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) (through its Google Ventures VC arm) have put $1.5 million in Miso, a startup that lets peo… Read more »
What Chatroulette And Sarah Palin Have In Common
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The seemingly never-ending death spiral of the phenomenon known as Chatroulette took yet another sad 360 with the unveiling via Twitter of… Read more »
Behavioral Targeter [x + 1] Raises $10 Million Round
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All the threats regarding the potential of stricter regulation of behavioral targeting don’t seem to have scared off investors, as x+1 is th… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.03.11
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» Publishers are very hopeful about the launch of a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) “digital newsstand.” In recent weeks, Google has told pub… Read more »
New Investment By Goldman And DST Values Facebook At $50 Billion
If Facebook ever does make it to an IPO, it looks like Goldman Sachs has acquired the banking equivalent of a golden ticket. The NYT reporte… Read more »
Scott Kurnit’s AdKeeper Raises $35 Million Second Round
AdKeeper, the startup launched by About.com founder Scott Kurnit this past fall, has raised a whopping $35 million second round funding. Bac… Read more »
Petsky Prunier: In 2010, Media M&As Rose Nearly 50 Percent
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As the advertising recovery took hold in the latter half of 2009, acquisitions activity in the media space were expected to pick up markedly… Read more »
SEC Watch: Groupon Raises Half A Billion In Half A Round
Some investors in local deals startup Groupon won’t have to wait for a sale or IPO to get a payout. In an SEC filing Thursday, the Chicago-b… Read more »
Mobile Gaming/SocNet Site Qeep Raises Millions In Second Round
Java content is alive and well in the mobile world. Blue Lion Mobile, which makes the youth-oriented, social networking and mobile gaming si… Read more »
Major League Gaming Raises $10 Million
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Professional video game league Major League Gaming has raised $10 million in its latest round of funding. The company, which has dominated t… Read more »
Tumblr Raises $30 Million In New Round Led By Sequoia
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Tumblr, which has become a favorite blogging tool for hip consumers and wannabe-hip media companies, has raised $30 million in a new funding… Read more »
As Regulatory Scrutiny Intensfies, Ad Targeter eXelate Adds To Second Round
The behavioral targeting business is looking as challenged as it ever has these days, considering the recent developments coming out of Wash… Read more »
2011 Investment Outlook: Cash Available, But Many Startups Will Wait
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Hot sectors will continue to be well funded even in the equity gap. We are seeing strong demand for deals in digital media, e-commerce, mobi… Read more »
How Twitter’s Funding Stacks Up Against The Biggest Deals Of 2010
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Here’s a sign of how the market for companies seeking funding has loosened up over the last year. When Twitter last raised a round of ventur… Read more »
Twitter Raises $200 Million In Funding Round Led By Kleiner Perkins
Twitter has raised a massive new round of funding led by new investor Kleiner Perkins, as it continues its speedy growth. Kara Swisher at Al… Read more »
As Video Space Heats Up, SpotXchange Closes $12 Million Round
Over the next five years, online video ad spending is expected rise 19.6 percent annually, according to last week’s Magna Global forecast. S… Read more »
Zoopla Taking More Investment And Debt For Marketing
In the ongoing online property listings competition, Zoopla says it needs to raise more money to put toward marketing itself. Read more »
Mobile Data Optimizer Mobixell Picks Up A $10 Million Funding Round
More money for the mobile data middlemen: Mobixell Networks, which works with mobile operators to improve data service delivery on their net… Read more »
Social Net For Gay Men Fab Gets $1.75 Million More From WaPost, Others
Fab, a social network for gay men, has raised $1.75 million in a first round of funding from investors including existing backer the Washing… Read more »
VC Round-Up: Performance Horizon, Admeta, Hotelyo Find Funds
A round-up of startup funding from across the European continent…
Performance marketing technology provider Performance Horizon Group (PH… Read more »
Social Ad Targeter Media6degrees Raises $17 Million Second Round
Social media audience data provider Media6Degrees has closed a $17 million second round from Menlo Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners and Venro… Read more »
Bebo Co-Founder Invests In The New Bebo
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Bebo co-founder Michael Birch, who made a fortune from the sale of the social network to AOL (NYSE: AOL) two and a half years ago, is once a… Read more »
Multilingual Video Site ViKi Raises $4.3 Million
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ViKi, an online video site that licenses the rights to international shows and then adds subtitles to them in various languages, has raised… Read more »
‘Social Driving App’ Waze Raises $25 Million In Series B Round
More activity in the area of location-aware, social apps: Waze, an app that builds up driving and navigation data by crowd sourcing informat… Read more »
App Analytics/Discovery Startup Flurry Raises $15 Million In Series C Round
The proliferation of apps is giving rise to a number of companies trying to make sense of the noise, and in some cases the latter companies… Read more »
Metro Networking Site CitySocialising Raises £1 Million
CitySocialising, a website that aims to connect urbanites for making new friends, is taking a first-round venture funding – £1 million led… Read more »
Mobile Advertising: MoPub Gets Seed Funding, Viacast Launches
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is disproportionately ahead of everyone else in when it comes to mobile advertising, but given that only about three per… Read more »
Social Media Marketer Shoutlet Raises $6 Million
Shoutlet, one of a series of startups trying to help businesses build out their social media presence, has raised $6 million in a second rou… Read more »
Ad Targeter Lotame Gets $11 Million More
Ad targeter Lotame has raised $11 million in its latest round of funding. The startup’s main product, Crowd Control, collects audience data… Read more »
AdaptiveBlue Raises $6 Million For Media “Check-In”, Led By Time Warner
AdaptiveBlue, the developer behind the entertainment “check-in” app GetGlue, has raised $6 million in a round of funding led by Time Warner… Read more »
Amazon Invests $175 Million In LivingSocial
Moving to counter Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which is widely expected to soon announce a deal to purchase Groupon, Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has jus… Read more »
Business.com Veterans Surface At A New Daily Deals Site
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Yet another daily deals startup with big names behind it has raised funding. Family Finds, which, as its name implies, is targeting its dail… Read more »
Jumptap In Japan: Partners With Dentsu And Picks Up Seven-Figure Investment
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Independent ad network Jumptap may not have the ownership of an Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) or Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to drive its businesses, but the r… Read more »
Analysts: Groupon Is A Good Deal For Google — Even If It Costs $6 Billion
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Google’s stock is off down nearly 4 percent today. It could be off because of news that the European Commission is opening a formal antitrus… Read more »
Mary Meeker Is Leaving Wall St. For Silicon Valley
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Morgan Stanley tech analyst Mary Meeker is leaving her post as one of Wall Street’s top internet observers to join VC firm Kleiner Perkins C… Read more »
Russian Mobile Social Network OnAir3G Raises $2 Million From Runa Capital
OnAir3G, a Russian mobile startup still in stealth mode, has picked up $2 million in funding from Runa Capital, a new VC in Russia with a fo… Read more »
Delicious Founder Schachter Gets Backing For A New Social Startup
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Joshua Schachter, who sold Delicious to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) five years ago is starting again with a new social startup, Tasty Labs. Schachter… Read more »
Oliver Stone’s New Project: Creepy Tech Investor
By now we’re all familiar with the dark and edgy cinematic stylings of Oliver Stone. Apparently it’s a sensibility he brings to everything h… Read more »
