“She’s got to feed the monkey, I mean, hasn’t that ever occurred to you man?”
That might be a quote from cult classic The Big Lebowski, or it might be what Chartbeat recently told their current investors. Who’s to …
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Game fundings destroyed the record book for fundings this year as 145 companies raised more than $1.540 billion in 2011, not counting initial public offerings.
In 2011, games took center stage. Game investment changed fundamentally during the year, as investors …
As if Nokia needed yet another mobile operating system to deal with, the company has purchased Norwegian company Smarterphone, creator of an operating system that brings smartphone-like features to basic cellphones.
The acquisition was actually completed back in November, but …
Piazza, a social network that connects students to their professors, raised $6 million in its first round of funding, the company announced Friday.
Piazza is a social network and “online gathering space” that encourages student collaboration under the guidance of …
Buyosphere is web celebrity Tara Hunt‘s greatest gamble, and after some shaky months, it might be starting to pay off.
Following a successful rebranding effort, the team has just closed an oversubscribed seed round of funding — $325,000, to be …
SuVolta, a chip startup that says it can cut power consumption by 50 to 90 percent when coupled with other techniques for lowering voltage, said today it has raises $17.6 million in a new round of funding.
The company’s technology …
Lithium‘s goal is to make your existing customer base like the stands at a Raiders winning home game — crazy about your brand. The company announced a $53.4 million fourth round of funding today, which will be used to create …
Moontoast, a startup that specializes in turning social media influence into revenue, has closed a new $6 million round of funding, the company tells VentureBeat.
Moontoast gives musicians, celebrities, and brands a way to generate money from the often large …
Just five months after raising $18.5 million, online legal services provider Rocket Lawyer has added $10.8 million in funding to its bank account, according to an SEC filing VentureBeat uncovered today.
“This is a combined Series D financing of $18.5M …
Playerize, a company that helps game studios find more players for their online and mobile games, raised $1 million in its first round of funding.
“Playerize uses display advertising through blog networks to help find new players for mobile and …
AT&T is getting into a bad habit of paying out millions of dollars just to continue operating various parts of its business.
AT&T will pay digital video recording service TiVo a total of $215 million over the next seven years …
Cloud file sharing company Accellion has raised $12 million in its third round of funding, with a goal of rapidly growing its mobile file-sharing solutions and international presence, the company announced today.
Accellion helps companies and government agencies secure data …
72pins is made up of a small team of retro art makers who take modern games — such as Halo or God of War — and reimagine them as classic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) carts.
Cleverly coined as “NEStalgia” and …
The group responsible for bringing multinational retail corporation Wal-Mart into the era of mobile and social commerce has just expanded. WalmartLabs, the retail giant’s eight month-old social and mobile product incubator, has acquired Small Society to help improve customers’ mobile …
Iconic internet company Yahoo has named a new CEO, former PayPal President Scott Thompson, the company announced today.
Yahoo fired its long-time CEO Carol Bartz in September after board members decided she wasn’t pushing the company forward. Yahoo CFO Tim …
A five year-old company that seeks to deliver “awesome social video campaigns” finds itself embroiled in a hairy Internet pickle on a day that would have otherwise been ripe for celebration.
Unruly Media, a video promotion company, has announced that …
IT infrastructure firm Internap has acquired hosting and cloud services provider Voxel for $30 million, the two companies announced this morning.
Internap provides “intelligent IT Infrastructure solutions” for enterprises and uses a variety of solutions to lower IT costs, including …
Mergers, acquisitions and IPOs for venture-backed startups were down in 2011 by some metrics and up by others.
Overall, the year saw a 14 percent drop in deal activity between 2010 and 2011. Dow Jones VentureSource‘s data shows 522 total …
SoundCloud, a startup focusing on audio-sharing in social media, has announced a new (and reportedly sizable) round of funding.
The round, which was led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, may have been as large …
Those intriguing fundraiser banners have finally disappeared from the pages of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia.
The site’s fundraising efforts for the year have ended, and the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit behind Wikipedia) was able to gather a record $20 million …
