Funding Daily: VC helping hands lead to startup happy feet

Good thing we start happy hour late here at VentureBeat, or we would have missed Fab.com’s big news yesterday afternoon. In other $100+ announcements, Penguin took an independent, self-publishing platform under its wing, and Microsoft and Yammer sealed the deal. …

33Across raises $13.1M to power the most complete social graph ever

For a company that’s grown as quickly as the social ad targeting firm 33Across, it’s taken surprisingly little funding. Today 33Across announced that it has raised $13.1 million in a third round of funding led by Pelion Venture Partners — …

80% of advertisers: Facebook not as important as the rest of the web

Facebook better hurry up and re-send that friend request to GM. Other advertisers are starting to catch on that there’s more to the advertising world than the world’s largest social network.

In fact, according to a June study by 33Across, …

Brands are seeing a greater impact with online video, says 33Across

Brands across multiple industries are seeing more customers respond to online video than ever before, according to the latest report from research firm 33Across.

33Across measures the consumer behavior for brands, tracking things like blog consumption, search engine usage, content …

Social ad startup 33Across buys Tynt, taps into the power of copy and paste

Like a match made in social data heaven, social ad targeting startup 33Across announced today that it has snapped up Tynt Multimedia, a company that helps publishers track reader engagement through the age old technique of copy and paste.

Combined …