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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 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 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
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 14, 2011 5:54 AM
WPP and Revolution Capital are making a second investment in InGameAdvertising, the Shanghai-based Chinese in-game advertising network.
Posted In: Advertising, Entertainment, Games, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, WPP
Nov 11, 2011 5:49 AM
Irish developer Ideal Binary has raised €750k (around £642k) to fuel its ambitions in the increasingly competitive book-apps market. The funding includes €500k from the AIB Seed Capital Fund, managed by Enterprise Equity Venture Capital, and €250k from Enterprise Ireland.
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Media & Publishing, Books, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, Countries, Europe, Ireland
Nov 8, 2011 7:39 PM
Index Ventures, the London-based venture capital firm best known for investing in LoveFilm and Skype, has defied the eurozone debt crisis to launch a €500 ($689.4/£429.03) million fund to invest in late-stage startups in Europe.
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Countries, Europe, index ventures
Nov 8, 2011 10:47 AM
Richard Branson is no stranger to investing in mobile media: among his more notable moves have been establishing *Virgin Mobile* years ago, and more recently moving into iPad publishing with Project magazine. Today comes news of his latest foray into the wireless world: an investment in the mobile payments startup…
Posted In: E-Commerce, Travel, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android, Virgin, Virgin Mobile, jack dorsey, richard branson, square
Oct 25, 2011 8:53 AM
PlayJam, which distributes its own and now third-party casual games to TVs in Europe, is taking a $5 million first investment round to help it do the same in the U.S. and Asia.
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital
Oct 24, 2011 5:25 AM
Chinese digital ads measurement firm Moment Systems is taking a $20 million second round investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), alongside China Broadband Capital (CBC), Redpoint Ventures and WPP Digital.
Posted In: Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, WPP, Countries, Asia, China
Oct 21, 2011 1:03 PM
Phorm, the controversial targeted web ads company that fled to Brazil after privacy concerns blocked its domestic UK fortunes, is taking yet another big fundraising as it goes on trying to finance its expensive global search for business.
Posted In: Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital
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