Early-stage Illume Software, developer of a mobile app (iZUP) designed to prevent distracted driving, secured $2.4 million in new Read More
Funding roundup – week ending 03/18/11
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Facebook Places launches in more countries
Facebook Places is now available in more countries, including Bulgaria, Brazil, India, Egypt, South Africa, the Philippines and Read More
Social networks just ain’t growing like they used to. I guess a social gaming-induced boom can only happen Read More
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What you need to know – 03/18/11
Following its fall announcement that mobile Places users would be rewarded with deals and discounts to the venue Read More
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iZUP raises $2.4M to help distracted drivers
Illume Software, developer of a mobile app designed to prevent distracted driving, announced Thursday that it has secured Read More
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Zediva streams new movies sooner, cheaper
Have you ever wanted to manually control a DVD player sitting in a data center hundreds if not Read More
Look out rest-of-the-Internet, Facebook might now own a patent for social search, according to a patent first filed Read More
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What you need to know – 03/16/11
Online education company 2tor raised a $32.5 million Series C round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation Read More
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Seed funding thriving (too much?) in NYC
Owen Davis, managing director of NYC Seed, says seed rounds have doubled in size in the last Read More
Spigit, an enterprise-grade social networking software provider, on Tuesday announced its second $10 million equity round of financing Read More
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What you need to know – 03/15/11
Following its acquisition of the Huffington Post and the subsequent laying off of 900 employees, AOL announced that Read More
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Foursquare Venue Project: unify location data
Oh, no. Not another Foursquare announcement. Well, to be fair, SXSW 2011 ain’t over yet. And this one Read More
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Stumble’s Paid Discovery will wow advertisers
Promoted Trends are so 2010. StumbleUpon, the Web’s top social discovery engine, on Monday launched Paid Discovery, a new Read More
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What you need to know – 03/14/11
The Amazon Appstore for Android will be the exclusive distributor of Angry Birds Rio, a new version of Read More
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Selling sex in Zynga’s FrontierVille (SXSW)
We already knew that Zynga was a data-obsessed company. Click to buy a crop and Zynga’s watching, click Read More