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2012 Mobile Ad Spend Revised Up To $2.6 Billion, Google Fueling The Machine

by Ingrid Lunden on Jan 25, 2012 • No Comments

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 data.

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Updated: Rutberg: Mobile Accounted For Over 40% Of All Tech VC In 2011

by Ingrid Lunden on Jan 23, 2012 • No Comments

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.

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Polar Mobile Raises $6 Million For Magazine Apps, Cross-Platform Services

by Ingrid Lunden on Jan 23, 2012 • No Comments

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...

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BSkyB Buys Stake In Social TV Start-Up Zeebox For $15+ Million

by Robert Andrews on Jan 8, 2012 • No Comments

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.

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AOL Ponies Up For Appssavvy’s $7.1 Million Round As Social Ads Make Friends

by Ingrid Lunden on Dec 20, 2011 • No Comments

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 (NYSE: AOL) Ventures...

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News Corp./Time Warner’s Prince Alwaleed Invests $300 Million In Twitter

by Ingrid Lunden on Dec 19, 2011 • No Comments

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 million...

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ePub Direct Funded To Supply E-Books To Kindle, iBooks Et Al

by Robert Andrews on Dec 16, 2011 • No Comments

If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector?

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EyeSight Gets Its Hands On $4.2 Million For Gesture Control Technology

by Ingrid Lunden on Nov 23, 2011 • No Comments

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 led...

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Netflix’s Global Funding Makes Sense—If It Can Rescue Domestic

by Robert Andrews on Nov 22, 2011 • No Comments

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.

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Apple Adversary Zuora Raises $36 Million For Subscription Services

by Ingrid Lunden on Nov 16, 2011 • No Comments

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.

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Ustream gets $6M funding, on the hunt for new CEO

by Colleen Taylor on Nov 4, 2011 • No Comments

Live video streaming pioneer Ustream is going through some pretty major changes, the company said Friday. First, it has landed $6 million in new funding from two existing investors -- and second, its co-founder, John Ham, is leaving his job as the company's CEO.

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Rounds gets $3M to take its video chat app beyond Facebook

by Colleen Taylor on Nov 2, 2011 • No Comments

Rounds, a startup that makes a popular video chat app for Facebook, has raised $3 million in new funding. The Israel-based company says it will use the money to expand its video chat service beyond Facebook to other social networks and onto mobile devices.

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2012 Mobile Ad Spend Revised Up To $2.6 Billion, Google Fueling The Machine

Polar Mobile Raises $6 Million For Magazine Apps, Cross-Platform Services

ePub Direct Funded To Supply E-Books To Kindle, iBooks Et Al

EyeSight Gets Its Hands On $4.2 Million For Gesture Control Technology

Netflix’s Global Funding Makes Sense—If It Can Rescue Domestic

Apple Adversary Zuora Raises $36 Million For Subscription Services

Ustream gets $6M funding, on the hunt for new CEO

Rounds gets $3M to take its video chat app beyond Facebook

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