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The average email inbox is stuffed with spam, disguised viruses and irrelevant junk. But Goodmail Systems, provider of the CertifiedEmail platform that delivers only trusted emails, just landed $20 million in a third round of funding to help its users rise above the fray.
The Mountain View, Calif. company hopes to capitalize on a trend toward email [...]
Media software provider Sonic Solutions announced today that it will buy CinemaNow, a company that serves digital video downloads through various platforms. It’s a sweet deal for Sonic, which will not only inherit the smaller company’s inventory of 6,000 movies, shows and videos, but also its connections with more then 250 content producers, including the [...]
Social networking for women got a boost yesterday as media conglomerate Meredith Corp. acquired an undisclosed minority stake in Real Girls Media Network. The San Francisco-based network encompasses about 30 sites and portals for women — notably, DivineCaroline, a largely user-generated advice page.
In addition to bringing Real Girls’ 3 million unique viewers to Meredith’s properties [...]
Mohr Davidow Ventures, a Menlo Park, Calif. firm, has hired two biotech experts to help it make prudent investments in personalized healthcare companies. Essentially, they will look for startups that apply technology to give patients more control over their medical experiences, and to cut costs for care providers and drug developers.
Daniel Riskin — who actually [...]
It’s a good week for trip planning website TravelMuse. It launched its first application, the TravelMuse Plan-It!, which allows users to collect travel information from a range of sites in one centralized location — and then share it with their friends. On top of that, it brought in $600,000 in first-round funding from Azure Capital [...]
Someone is finally mobilizing the collective wisdom of the porn-viewing masses. Well, sort of. CrowdSifter, the new content filter out of startup Dolores Labs, gathers and shows batches of images to a pool of thousands of public viewers who, together, flag obscene and violent images within minutes. The product sharpened its teeth earlier this week [...]
cFares, a search engine that scours the net for airfare and other travel bargains, announced today that it brought in both $3.1 million in second-round financing and a new chief executive to help strengthen its brand.
At first glance, cFares operates pretty similarly to other discount airfare sites like Travel Zoo and Cheap Tickets, but there’s [...]
Geolocation software developer Quova launched its new On-Demand service today, providing websites with the ability to pinpoint their users’ locations, and use this data to customize their content and applications.
The Mountain View, Calif. company gives businesses the tools they need to help their users find local information (weather and nearby stores, for example) on their [...]
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