Watch the second part of Bambi Francisco’s interview series with Michael Lazerow, CEO and founder of Buddy Media.
CatchOfTheDay, which operates Australian e-commerce sites CatchOfTheDay.com.au and Scoopon.com.au, closed an investment for a minority stake in the company from New York-based Tiger Global Management and a group of Australian businessmen including James Packer’s Consolidated Press Holdings (CPH), Andrew Bassat, co-founder and CEO of Seek and Glenn Poswell founder of Gannet Capital.
Eightfold Logic, which just launched social writing application InboundWriter, closed $2 million in Series C funding from existing investors.
Lerer Ventures closed its second $25 million seed-stage fund.
Read some thoughts as to why LinkedIn’s value may not be crazy.
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Mobli, a mobile content sharing platform, has released a new app that combines YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.
Rent the Runway raised $15 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
SmartCellar, a digital wine list that lets restaurant patrons easily skim through the wine section and get information, pictures, and more in one sitting, is available on the iPad.
A Welsh professional soccer player who must not be named, due to legal restrictions in the UK, has secured a court order in the British High Court requiring that Twitter reveal the identities of anonymous users on the site that tweeted his name.
Unsocial, a mobile app for connecting with new people at business events like conferences and tradeshows, secured an undisclosed round of seed funding from several unnamed angel investors.
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Today’s Entrepreneur is Shawn Gardner, Founder and CEO of Fun2rent.com.
VYou, the conversational video platform, closed a $3 million Series A financing round led by RRE Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.











