Seed-stage Gobble, an online marketplace for local fresh meals, raised $1.2 million in seed financing from a select Read More
Funding roundup – week ending 05/13/11
Google’s legal woes are never-ending, but now it’s apparently getting slapped with such deep-impacting allegations that it’s Read More
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What you need to know – 05/13/11
Investment bank Caris & Co. estimates that, in 2011, Kindle revenues will reach $5.42 billion, and by 2012, Read More
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The Taliban tweets about “US invaders killed”
When the Taliban, one of al Qaeda’s most important allies, confirmed that Osama bin Laden had been killed Read More
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Buddy Media “closes the loop,” buys Spinback
Social media marketing company Buddy Media announced Thursday that it has acquired Spinback, creator of a social plugin Read More
Demandbase, a B2B marketing performance solutions company, announced Thursday morning that it has secured $10 million in Read More
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PR blunder: Facebook tries to smear Google
Ever heard of Social Circle? Me neither. But, according to a series of leaked emails, Facebook wanted you Read More
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What you need to know – 05/12/11
Social intelligence company Claritics received $1.5 million in Series A financing lead by Cervin Ventures and TiE Angels. Read More
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Group Commerce raising $10 million for deals?
Group Commerce, has raised a second round of more than $10 million, according to multiple sources close to Read More
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FreeMonee raises $11 million for gift network
A startup founded by former senior executives from eBay, Best Buy, Visa and Oracle and its name reads Read More
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Official.fm raises $8 million for DIY music
Official.fm, a management platform for music creators, announced this week that it has raised $8 million in new Read More
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What you need to know – 05/11/11
Alpine Data Labs, developer of the first solution for Big Data Predictive Insight, received $7.5 million in Series Read More
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SCVNGR copies Foursquare AmEx deal, beats it
The future of commerce is barreling towards us faster than anyone expected. Riding on the coattails of Foursquare’s Read More
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What you need to know – 05/10/11
Content delivery service Limelight Networks acquired AcceloWeb (formerly FasterWeb), a software solution that speeds up the loading time Read More
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LocalResponse finds customers, check-in or no
Only 39 percent of smartphone users in the U.S. actually use at least one location-based service to check Read More