Big news today from Rovio, the Finland-based developers behind the hugely successful Angry Birds mobile game: the company has picked up $42 million in funding, a first round round led by no less than Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures, the VC firm founded and led by Skype/Kazaa/Joost founders Niklas Zennstrom…

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 in size only to Apple’s app store, has raised $11 million in a second round of funding. GetJar’s app store includes about 70,000 apps for all…

Digital motors advertising was sliding even before the recession but investors are still willing to speculate on the sector. Online-only second-hand car retailer Autoquake has raised a hefty £4 million in VC funding from Accel Partners and Highland Capital Partners—adding to the £10 million those companies have already invested in…

Lukasz Gadowski’s Spreadshirt, which calls itself a Web 2.0 platform for designing and selling clothes, has raised €10 million in venture funding from Kennet Partners and existing backer Accel. Like a Cafepress just for clothes, and much better, Leipzig, Germany-based Spreadshirt offers all kinds of clip art, garments and colours,…

Social games publisher and developer Playfish has raised $17 million (£10.8 million) in a second round of funding led by Accel Partners and Index Ventures. The London-based start up plans to use the money to continue growing its offering. The company says it currently has more than 10 million monthly…

Playfish, a developer of games on Facebook, has raised $1 million (£500,000) as part of a larger planned venture round, according to VentureWire, via VentureBeat. The funding, from VC firm Accel (also an investor in Facebook), follows a previous $3 million seed round. The London-based company, whose model is based…

Glam Media, the high-profile and controversial online ad network, has finally announced its big raise, after a year of fund raising: it has received $84.6 million in funding, with $64.6 million in fourth round venture funding and $20 million in revenue-based debt financing. The round has been rumored for a…

London-based Openads, an open-source ad server, has managed to raise a $15.5 million (£7.9 million) second round of funding, with the aim of stepping up product development and hiring more staff. (Rafat adds: We use the software to serve ads currently, but are moving away to a commercial software) Its…