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Currensee, a social network for foreign exchange traders, has raised $6 million more in funding. On Currensee, users link their brokerage accounts to their profiles, so that they can share trades and foreign exchange positions. They can also track the trades and positions of “trading friends” in real-time. The funding round was led...

For nearly 40 minutes, top executives from The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) took questions from interviewer Staci D. Kramer, co-editor and EVP of ContentNext Media, and participants in paidContent 2010. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., chairman and publisher; Janet Robinson, president and CEO; and Martin Nisenholtz, SVP-digital operations, knew the interest would...

London-based Bragster, a site for people to make bets with each other on various “stunts”, has been acquired by Guinness World Records, for an undisclosed sum. The site allows users to upload videos of their dares and “bragging” feats. It was founded in 2006, and raised about $3 million...

About three years ago, power pop band Ok Go were catapulted to fame after its independently-produced music video for the song “Here It Goes Again” caught fire on YouTube. Fans began embedding the video, which featured the band dancing on treadmills. The band’s success appeared to point the way for a new...

Facebook has bought up under-the-radar Octazen Solutions, in what the company says is a “small talent acquisition.” Facebook’s statement: “We’ve admired the engineering team’s efforts for some time now and this is part of our ongoing effort to add experienced, accomplished technical talent.”

Octazen describes itself on its website as a “webmail...

Pali Capital’s Rich Greenfield opened the paidContent 2010 conference at the TimesCenter with a note of skepticism about the recent spate of media joint ventures, such as Hulu or the recently-launched YouTube music video channel Vevo. Moderator Quincy Smith, ex-CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) exec now partner, Code Advisers, put...

Clicker, which promises to be a TV guide of sorts for video content online, has raised $11 million in a funding round. The round was led by JAFCO Ventures; existing backers Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures also participated. Clicker—which is headed by former Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone—says it has indexed more than 600,000...

Ty Ahmad-Taylor is the founder and CEO of FanFeedr, a real-time personalized sports feed. Previously, he was SVP of Strategy and Product Development at Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and, before that, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA). He tweets at @tyahma

If you are a consumer-facing startup pitching to VCs, the conversation...

Graphic.ly, which offers a digital content delivery platform for print comics book publishers, has purchased 10-year-old online comics book community iFanboy. Terms of the acquisition were not announced, although in a message on his site iFanboy co-founder Josh Flanagan says, “We are most emphatically not...

Despite making significant changes to its Buzz social networking service (and apologizing), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) still can’t shake the ire of privacy critics. The Electronic Privacy Information Center Electronic Frontier Foundation has now filed a complaint with the FTC over Buzz, asking the FTC to step in and require...

Video ad manager Adap.tv is expanding into the exchange business with several major publishers and ad agencies. Among the first to try out Adap.tv’s video advertising marketplace are Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Publicis Groupe’s digital hub VivaKi. Over the past year, ad exchanges have emerged as an extension of remnant...

Video ad network TidalTV has completed the $16 million second round funding it initiated last fall, Mediapost reports. As we reported in October, the Baltimore-based TidalTV raised an initial $8.9 million portion. Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Interactive Capital, the cable operator’s venture arm, participated in...