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Feb 2, 2012 10:05 AM
Apartment-letting site Airbnb will get investment, endorsement and distribution from the publisher of Europe’s most-read newspaper.
Posted In: E-Commerce, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital
Feb 2, 2012 9:47 AM
Two European companies are this week taking venture capital in the games space…
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital
Jan 25, 2012 1:00 PM
A big endorsement today for mobile advertising from eMarketer: their analysts today said they were revising up their forecasts for U.S. mobile ad spend to $2.61 billion, from their previous estimates of $1.8 billion. Why the rise? Google’s “exceptional” mobile advertising performance in mobile search advertising, and more reliable market…
Posted In: Advertising, Marketing, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Research & Metrics, Research, Search, Companies, Apple, iAd, Google, Yahoo, millenial media, millennial media
Jan 23, 2012 10:44 AM
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 consumer applications are the source of the most action at the moment.
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Google
Jan 23, 2012 6:18 AM
Polar Mobile—the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX), Shanghai Daily, Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) and the WSJ—today announced two steps up in its growth: it has picked up an additional $6 million in funding and has launched…
Posted In: Apps, E-Commerce, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, B2B, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, CBS, CBS Interactive, Conde Nast, Future Publishing, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, BlackBerry, georgian partners, polar mobile
Jan 8, 2012 7:57 PM
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 startup Zeebox for a sum that is “double-digit millions” in both pounds and dollars.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Video, Companies, News Corp., BSkyB
Jan 4, 2012 7:43 AM
Already in our headlines today for a hiccup over its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Chrome campaign, Unruly Media, which makes video campaigns designed for social sharing, has announced a $25 (£16.04) million first VC funding round to fund international expansion.
Posted In: Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Video
Jan 3, 2012 6:00 AM
Almost a year to the day after it last took funding, audio-hosting service SoundCloud is taking a further round from new investors.
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital
Dec 20, 2011 11:20 AM
One of the consequences of the growth of social media has been the rise of that category of digital, interactive advertising referred to as social ads. Today, one of the companies working in this area, appssavvy, has announced that it has picked up $7.1 million in funding, with AOL’s AOL…
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Entertainment, Games, Legal, Privacy, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Search, Social Media, Companies, AOL, Facebook, New York Times, appssavvy, mediabrix
Dec 19, 2011 12:02 PM
Broadcasting, publishing and marketing group Cox Media Group is putting down some more roots in digital media investments: it has announced an investment of $6 million in Skyword, a content farm, to expand Skyword’s business.
Posted In: Advertising, Marketing, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Search, Companies, Demand Media, cox media group
Dec 19, 2011 6:37 AM
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Companies, AOL, Apple, HP, Motorola, News Corp., Time Warner, Twitter, Countries, Europe, Russia, kingdom holdings, prince alalweed, prince alwaleed bin talal bin abdulaziz alsaud
Dec 16, 2011 5:03 AM
If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector?
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-books, e-readers, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Countries, Europe, Ireland
Dec 14, 2011 8:00 AM
Outbrain, whose content recommendation engine lets publisher sites add related news links, is taking a $35 (£22.6) million fourth funding round, taking its total up to $64 (£40.96) million in almost four years.
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, carmel ventures, index ventures, lightspeed venture partners, outbrain
Dec 7, 2011 9:00 AM
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 those very small screens. One company that is working on improving the speed and accuracy of our mobile typing, TouchType, is getting additional investment in…
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Google, Android, swiftkey, touchtype
Nov 22, 2011 6:29 PM
If the Kinect and the Wii popularized the idea of gestures controlling machines, the rise of startups working in the area will take the technology to a wider base of platforms and users. One of these, Israel-based eyeSight Mobile Technologies, today picked up a round of $4.2 million in funding…
Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Apple, Google, Android, Microsoft, Samsung, Countries, Asia, Japan, eyesight, gesture, gesture technology, kinect
Nov 22, 2011 11:49 AM
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) shares opened four percent lower Tuesday after Monday’s after-market announcement that it is taking $400 million to fuel international expansion and that 2012 will be a loss-making year.
Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Netflix
Nov 16, 2011 6:14 PM
Big funding round for the digital content subscription and billing specialist Zuora: the company has raised $36 million in a Series D round that it will use to expand internationally and commercialize new products.
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, iPad, Countries, Europe, France, Germany, Ireland, UK, in-app purchases, subscriptions, zuora
Nov 16, 2011 12:26 PM
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 its ad exchange and mobile offerings, two areas that are still small, but also rapidly attracting more marketer activity. Separately, YuMe, a video ad network that…
Posted In: Advertising, Marketing, Media & Publishing, TV, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Video, Technologies / Formats, Broadband
Nov 16, 2011 9:00 AM
Barely two months after slowly exiting Myspace as its last CEO under News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), Mike Jones is debuting his new company, Science Inc., which is, in parts, a hybrid venture capital firm, technology studio and consultancy. And in some important ways, Jones tells paidContent, the Los Angeles-based venture,…
Posted In: Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Companies, News Corp., MySpace, dennis phelps., jean-marie messier, mike jones, philippe camus, rustic canyon, science inc, the social+capital partnership, white star capital
Nov 15, 2011 5:32 PM
Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has had trouble getting its chips into the types of mobile devices that are transforming the computing experience, and it’s ready to turn to an old-fashioned method: bribery. Intel announced the creation of the $100 million AppUp Fund Monday through its Intel Capital arm, which will make…
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, 4tiitoo, intel, intel capital, urban airship
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