Digital analytics company comScore agreed to acquire AdXpose, a provider of digital advertising analytics solutions, for $22 million in stock. The transaction is expected to close in about two weeks.
Randi Zuckerberg, director of marketing at Facebook and sister to CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving Facebook to start her own company.
Social CRM company Get Satisfaction raised a $10 million Series B round of funding led by Bruce Cleveland, general partner at InterWest.
Google called foul against Microsoft and Apple in a blog post on Wednesday, accusing the two companies of colluding to get ahead by stifling the competition. How are they doing this?
Augme Technologies, provider of mobile marketing solutions, signed a definitive agreement to purchase Hipcricket, a mobile marketing and advertising firm, for $44.5 million ($6 million in cash and $38.5 million in Augme common stock).
Social game developer KIXEYE raised $18 million in Series C funding led by Jafco Ventures with previous investors participating.
Local.com, an online local media company, secured a $12 million revolving credit facility from Square 1 Bank.
Social advertising platform LocalResponse acquired Philo Media Corporation, a business focused on making television more interactive.
McAfee and other security experts in the U.S. uncovered a massive five-year cyber-spying attack that hijacked data from major government organizations, including the United Nations, and large corporations in what McAfee is calling “nothing short of a historically unprecedented transfer of wealth."
Building on a $300K round we uncovered last week, online rental marketplace Rentycle has completed its $1.4 million round of funding led by Collaborative Fund.
Distributor of social games Sibblingz raised $1 million from incubator YouWeb.
TakeLessons, a local music lessons marketplace, announced Wednesday that it has raised $6 million in funding led by Crosslink Capital, with participation from SoftTechVC and other angel investors.
TekTrak, a mobile security startup that helps people track their lost phones and protect their personal data, is now available for Android phones.
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TekTrak is the team behind innovative mobile security software that protects your phone and the valuable data stored within. By harnessing the powerful Assisted GPS hardware integrated in smartphones, TekTrak is insuring no one ever loses their phone and privacy again. What started out as frustrating experience of losing a phone with pictures and data, has now become a mobile tracking and security business. Our security application allows users to remotely locate their phone, lock it, send a message, set off an audible alarm, and remotely wipe the data from the device.
TekTrak is currently available on iOS and on Samsung Android-based devices, and will be available for other major platrofms within the next year.
