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Content archive middleman PerfectMarket pulls in $15.6 million in venture funding

PerfectMarket, a Pasadena-based startup focusing in helping web publishers monetize archived content, has announced it raised $15.6 million in venture funding. The company helps media publishers, particularly those still heavily involved in traditional media, to take little-seen older articles and expose them to both readers… Continue Reading

News aggregator BuzzFeed nets $3.5 million in funding

BuzzFeed, a New York City-based news aggregator, announced  $3.5 million in Series A financing from Softbank and Hearst. Started by Huffington Post co-founder Jonah Peretti, the site launched in 2006 and is now receiving one million unique visitors a month.

What separates the company from other… Continue Reading

VideoEgg hatches new ways to engage with online video viewers

San Francisco video ad network VideoEgg is releasing five more ways for brands to take advantage of online video ads. These widgets will be added to the VideoEgg’s AdFrames platform, which launched in February.

AdFrames  allows advertisers to insert a second advertisement behind a first video… Continue Reading

Comcast invests in WiMax company Cartiza

Comcast announced today it has invested an undisclosed sum in seed-round funding to mobile WiMax company Cartiza.

Founded in late 2006, the Boston, Mass. company has previously raised $12.6 million in funding, according to the Boston Business Journal. Cartiza is reportedly in stealth mode, working on… Continue Reading

CRM software analytics group Island Data Corpoation raises $6 million in Series B funding

Island Data Corporation, a software analytics firm specializing in helping companies sort and understand customer feedback, has received $6 million in Series B funding.

Investors were Dolphin Equity Partners, ABS Ventures, and Encinal Capital Management.

Island Data Corporation, based in Carlsbad, CA, focuses on provides analytics… Continue Reading

Microsoft entices users with iPods

Microsoft has launched a special promotional contest to lure users to Live Search on its Australian web portal, Ninemsn. But the prizes for winning, surprisingly, include rival company Apple’s offerings: iPods Touches, iPod Nanos, and iPod Shuffles, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

From the article:

Ninemsn’s… Continue Reading

Mobile music sales set to rise as Warner Brothers partners with Nokia

A new report by eMarketer forecasting physical, online, and mobile sales of music through 2011 paints a bright future for mobile music sales, and music labels seem to agree.

The most striking fact is the prediction that by 2011, the majority of music sales, 56.5 percent, will… Continue Reading

Bank of America invests in mobile banking platform maker mFoundry

Mobile banking continues to heat up as Banc of America Strategic Investors Corp, the investing (and strangely Francophone-spelled) arm of Bank of America, announced the completion a strategic investing round in mobile banking platform maker mFoundry.

While mobile banking to date has been stymied by incompatibility… Continue Reading

Mobile instant messaging company Miyowa gets $8 million to expand to US, Asia

French mobile instant messaging company Miyowa announced a second round of funding today, to the tune of of $8 million, bringing its total financing to date up to $12.7 million. The company has flown largely under the radar in America, but it plans to use… Continue Reading

Mobile to web connector Dashwire 2.0 now shiny, flashy, and better

Dashwire, a program that lets smartphone users access and use their mobile data from the web, released a new version yesterday, and it looks really, really nice. We’ve written about Dashwire before as part of the growing group of programs that let user protect their… Continue Reading

Hispanic mobile media and advertising market heats up

For companies looking to make a move into mobile advertising, it might be good to a get a few bilingual Spanish speakers on staff. While money has already been following Hispanics online for a while, with Hispanic consumer spending expected to top $1 trillion by… Continue Reading

Bones in Motion trys to catch up to Garmin with cell phone GPS tracking for athletes

Location-based app maker Bones in Motion is looking to take a bite out of Garmin and other GPS manufacturers, offering up a service that lets runners and bikers user their GPS-enabled cell phones to track distance, speed, and how their training is progressing. Based out… Continue Reading

Google to announce new media research tool Ad Planner

Google is set to announce Ad Planner tomorrow, a tool designed to help media buyers at ad agencies determine which websites offer up the best audience for their clients. The tool, which seems to be an enhanced version of the recently released Google Trends for… Continue Reading