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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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(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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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