Watch a video of Boxee co-founder and CEO Avner Ronan telling the inspiring story of his company at Vator Splash December in New York.
Cooliris raised $9.6 million in Series C funding from existing investors, which include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Deutsche Telekom’s T-Venture, DAG Ventures, and The Westly Group
Intel Capital, Intel’s investment arm, invested $26 million in six companies: open source mobile software solutions company Borqs; location-based mapping platform and tools provider CloudMade; QuantumFilm-based image sensor vendor InVisage; open source online video platform Kaltura; online authentication provider SecureKey Technologies; and unified communications and collaboration service software provider VisionOSS Solutions.
Pandora Media filed for its IPO. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined.
GPS fleet tracking and other location service provider Telogis raised $2.9 million, according to a an SEC filing.
UberMedia acquired TweetDeck, one of the most popular third-party Twitter applications, for a rumored $25-$30 million.
Today’s featured entrepreneur is Bob Zeidman, CEO and founder of several startup such as SAFE Corporation, Zeidman Consulting and more.
HP agreed to acquire Vertica, a privately held, real-time analytics platform company based in Billerica, Mass. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Zynga could be on the cusp of raising a $250 million round of new funding that values the king of social gaming between $7 and $9 billion.
