What you need to know - 03/31/11

Yuri Milner created DST Global 2 for late-stage startups; Google launches +1 for social search

Open app marketplace Appia secured a $10 million investment from Venrock.

Yuri Milner of Digital Sky Technoligies has created a second fund, called DST Global 2, that will focus on later stage, high growth companies.The  fund's first investment was in Groupon back in January,

Games2win, a Mumbai, India-based online gaming company, raised a $6 million Series B round of funding from Clearstone Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank (SVB India Capital Partners

GE Capital, the consumer lending and financial services arm of GE, is rolling out a new mobile app, WattWise, designed to help chain restaurant-owners save money on energy by measuring and reducing the amount of lighting their restaurants use

Google announced the launch of +1, a new social plugin set to appear in search results that will crowdsource the relevance of certain pages and websites. It's widely seen as an answer to Facebook's Like button.

The FTC charged Google with employing deceptive tactics when Buzz launched. Google must create its own privacy program and face independent privacy audits.

Wolfram Research, developer of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, acquired MathCore Engineering AB. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Social gaming company MegaZebra secured "multiple millions of euros" in a round led by Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, with participation from Kizoo Technology Ventures and Markus Stolz.

Microsoft lost its VP of global marketing Mich Mathews, the head of marketing for the last twenty-two years.

MyStream, a new (and temporarily free) app, just launched for iPhone that lets users wirelessly stream music to the devices of those around you. Listen to tunes simultaneously with friends without splitting headphones.

Video  ad technology company TidalTV raised more than $30 million in financing led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Comcast Interactive Capital and Valhalla Partners.

Visible Technologies, provider of "social intelligence" solutions, secured $6 million in financing from existing investors Investor Growth Capital (IGC), Centurion Holdings, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel and WPP.