Google Android has taken the lead among smartphone platforms with 31.2 percent market share, after two short months in second place, according to comScore.
Anjuke, a Chinese real estate marketplace, completed a new round of financing of $50 million led by Baida, China's largest Internet search provider.
Beyond Oblivion, a digital music marketplace with grandiose ambitions to disrupt the music industry, has secured a $77 million investment round led by News Corp.
Business Insider CEO and Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget on Monday posted the online news source's traffic data in an article, complete with visuals. Could it be that the four-year-old site is looking to get acquired?
Gigya, a SaaS company that makes websites more social, has raised $6 million in its third round of funding.
Gowalla launched version 3.0 of its Android app, adding push notifications and redesigning nearly every screen in the app interface.
Kik Interactive, creator of the cross-platform text messaging app Kik Messenger, closed an $8 million Series A round of funding led by RRE Ventures, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures.
Opera launched the Opera Mobile Store, which will sells apps for Android, BlackBerry, Java, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile.
Pixazza, the innovative advertising company that uses images already on the Web to bring attention to brands, now reaches more than 70 million unique visitors each month, representing an increase of 80% in the last five months.
Qriously, a service for measuring location-based public sentiment in real-time, raised a $1.6 million funding round led by Accel Partners, with participation from Amalfi Capital.
Music subscription service Rdio released a new native Mac client, so users can listen to Rdio tunes on their computer without firing up the browser. Windows users, your version is “coming soon.”
Ustream for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch has been updated to let users both stream and broadcast live video from the same app.
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Luminate, Inc. (previously known as Pixazza, Inc.) is the worldwide leader in making images interactive serving more than 150 million users each month and 30 billion image views per year.
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Ustream.TV is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size.
In less than two minutes, anyone can become a broadcaster by creating their own channel on Ustream or by broadcasting through their own site, empowering them to engage with their audience and further build their brand. Click here to start a broadcast now or learn more about broadcasting.
Ustream's one-to-many live interactive video encourages broadcast-to-viewer and viewer-to-viewer interaction, empowering a much more engaging experience for everyone involved.
With Ustream's interactive broadcast functionality, viewers can personally interact directly with whoever is broadcasting -- including personalities like their favorite musician or politician. Ustream viewers can watch specific broadcasts, explore our networks ranging from music, talk shows, sports and politics to discover a world of interesting new broadcasts, or review our past broadcasts.
Ustream opens up a new world of possibilities and experiences to broadcasters and viewers alike, which the pre-recorded static video that's predominated the Internet to date just can't provide. Today, people are Ustreaming everything including:
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