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Lijit raises $3.3M for intimate blog search

Lijit, a provider of a more extensive search service for blogs, has said it raised a $3.3M second round of funding.

Lijit, of Louisville, Colorado, doesn’t limit readers to searching blog posts. It also provides them results from the host blogger’s own accounts at Flickr, Digg, Del.icio.us, and any other place online they store information. Blogging is a cult-like sport, and this is one more way for readers to find out more about their favorite scribes…. Continue Reading

Altair raises $18M for mobile WiMAX chips

Altair, an Israeli company, is joining the race to be at the forefront of what some believe will be telecom’s next hot trend—mobile WiMAX. Altair, which makes chips that work with mobile WiMAX networks, announces today an $18M round of funding.

Mobile WiMAX is considered attractive because, compared to Wi-Fi, it offers much greater range and broadband access, although it has plenty of critics.

Wireless is a complex space with enough acronyms—UMTS, 3G and 4G, LTE, HSPA—to… Continue Reading

Kyte.tv, the online TV widget company, receives investment from Nokia Growth Partners

Kyte.tv, the San Francisco company allowing users to create their own TV channels online or on a mobile phone, today announced an investment in the “single digit millions” from Nokia Growth Partners, the venture capital arm of Nokia. This is Kyte.tv’s third round of financing (See previous VentureBeat coverage of Kyte.tv).

The investment by Nokia, a leading mobile company, is notable. VentureBeat has covered numerous video players and competitors including SplashCast, Joost and Radar—all of which… Continue Reading

Eye-Fi raises $5.5M for digital camera WiFi

Mountain View, Calif.-based Eye-Fi, a company building digital camera memory cards with built-in wireless and a service that allows users to automatically upload their photos to a PC or the Internet, today closed a $5.5 first round of funding from Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures.

Eye-Fi, which has yet to launch; it will do so this fall.

Companies such as SanDisk market similar Wi-Fi memory but the technology has not been widely adopted in digital photography. Canon,… Continue Reading

Parallels bridges the PC-Mac gap

Parallels Desktop, software that lets Intel-based Mac users run Windows applications, is set to release version 3.0 Wednesday, and is significant because it integrates with the filesystem and allows Windows to be run alongside Mac OS. Web developers are excited because Parallels allows them to test sites side-by-side using different browsers and different operating systems, a task that required multiple computers in the past.

(See video here for Quake4 running in Parallel Desktop 3.0 —… Continue Reading

Tumri, the online ad network, raises $10M more

Tumri, online advertising company that lets publishers choose the type of advertisers they want to run in a so-called AdPod on their Web sites, has raised a $10 million second round of funding.

Lehman Brothers Venture Partners led the round, which included existing investors Shasta Ventures and Accel Partners.

There’s a whole gaggle of new advertising networks, perhaps too many, but with merger and acquisition fever raging in this sector, it makes sense that investors double… Continue Reading

Tumri gives you more control over ad widgets

Tumri, an online ad network, today releases a service called Tumri Publisher to give publishers more control over ads displayed on their site.

Tumri Publisher allows users to create custom, branded ads called AdPods based on product category. For example, a blog about books could choose to only display book ads from Amazon.com. It also lets you create AdPods for specific merchants and price ranges.

AdPods display inventory from over one thousand merchants including Shopping.com and… Continue Reading

Vflyer offers mobile classifieds

Vflyer, the San Francisco-based classifieds company, today adds a new mobile service to distribute and manage classified ads on mobile devices.

It looks particularly useful for real estate agents, who are always on the go. The offering gives them a way of quickly sending classifieds listings information to their prospective buyer clients via email or SMS. Those clients can then access the information via the Web, or SMS or email on their phone. See the… Continue Reading

April 16: A sad day for all Americans

(Editor’s note: Michael Foroobar, a contributor at VentureBeat, attends the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech’s traditional rival a short two-hour drive away.)

Please take a moment of silence for those affected by the massacre at Virginia Tech yesterday, the worst shooting of its kind in U.S. history.

Waking up yesterday morning to news of a shooting at Virginia Tech was a tragedy. But hearing the fatality count jump from one to twenty in the blink of an… Continue Reading

Facebook’s redesign, drops “that Guy”

Facebook released its anticipated redesign today. Features include individual pages for networks, an “Inbox” more closely resembling email, and a new navigation scheme, as expected.

Facebook is also becoming more corporate. Notice the familiar Facebook “that Guy” logo has been dropped, leaving only the Facebook name. The copyright reference to “Mark Zuckerberg” at the bottom of pages has also disappeared.

The redesign incorporated feedback from users, which included requests for increased stats on network pages. Network… Continue Reading

Streetadvisor, offering user-generated street reputations

Ever wanted to buy a house, but weren’t sure about the vibe of the street it was on?

Streetadvisor.com—based in Melbourne, Australia—just launched a site that lets people comment on, and find information about, streets in their neighborhood. If you’re buying or renting a home, Streetadvisor may become a place worth checking out. The site is young, however, and the sparse amount of data input inhibits its usefulness.

People can explore streets based on criteria… Continue Reading