MoMinis, an Israeli mobile game firm that has a mega portal on Android devices, has raised $4.5 million in a new round of venture funding from BRM Group and Mitsui Ventures.
In December, MoMinis launched PlayScape, a “Mega-Game” with 50 …
AdSafe Media has raised $10 million in funding to make sure your company’s ads don’t intentionally wind up in potentially embarrassing places such as porn or pirating sites.
The New York-based company has created automated “ad safety” solutions for advertisers, …
If you’re an Olympics-loving web fiend, you’d better sit down: The athletes of the Olympics have finally come together to create a sort of Olympic Village on the web.
The Olympic Athletes Hub will bring the best, most intimate views …
Marketing automation firm Marketo has made its first acquisition ever with the purchase of social campaign service Crowd Factory, the company announced Wednesday morning.
Marketo and competing marketing automation firms like Eloqua, Pardot, and Silverpop offer software and services focused …
VCs always have a war story about the one that got away. Time to add the Pebble smartwatch to the list. The creators of the Pebble had some initial success raising $375,000 in angel funding. But when it come to …
Yahoo has been scrambling in recent years to stay relevant and competitive while Google grows into a dominating search and social company. With the company’s paltry first quarter earnings increase, the once-powerful search engine plans to shut down or combine …
Two Stanford University professors and a dream to educate the world, that’s what started Coursera. The service offers university-level courses to anyone with an Internet for free and just raised $16 million from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & …
Open-source cloud software maker Eucalyptus Systems has raised $30 million in its third round of funding, cash that will help the company serve quickly growing demand for private and hybrid clouds.
Eucalyptus gives away its open-source software platform to anyone …
Do you live outside your native country? Need to transfer money home? Most banks will charge you not only for the currency exchange but also for the transfer itself.
TransferWise today announced funding of $1.3m for its scheme to sidestep …
As someone who used to write technical documentation for a living, I can assure you that nobody likes reading that crap. But iFixit, the company that’s become famous for its repair guides and gadget teardowns, has somehow managed to make …
The DEMO Spring 2012 conference kicked off Tuesday in Santa Clara, Calif. The bi-annual event, co-produced by VentureBeat, gives startups the opportunity to launch their products in front of an audience of innovators, influencers, investors, and journalists.
This spring, the …
With Facebook’s buy of Instagram last week, photo-sharing apps are about to come under a lot of scrutiny. Dabble, which adds photo-sharing and location to create a “social journal,” might well be one of them.
Dabble’s goal is to help …
As both a filmmaker and a ex-projectionist, Justin Evans (pictured) knows that movie theater projectors are screwed up. So he co-founded Brytewerks to create the world’s most powerful digital projector that is much simpler to use than existing equipment.
If …
The problem with most diets is that nobody is really watching you all the time. But with a monitoring device and new remote software to go with it, BodyMedia has proposed a way for a coach or fitness trainer to …
If you’ve ever wanted an easy way to create a 360-degree interactive video to show off a new product, Arqball Spin has you covered.
Arqball Spin is targeting companies and individuals who want to give the product they are selling …
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Research In Motion is reportedly attempting to sell itself after rejecting the former co-CEO’s plan to open up its network to carriers. But for some reason it is not pursuing the creation of a lucrative category between smart phones and …
Environmental activist group Greenpeace released a report today examining how energy-efficient and clean cloud computing really is. The group called out Apple and Amazon as having some of the dirtiest clouds in the industry.
The report, titled “How Clean is …
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Apple has been cracking down on apps that try to use a device’s UDID, a 40-character code that uniquely identifies each device the company sells.
The Cupertino company’s apparent turnabout (it used to allow apps to access the UDID) has …
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was one of the best-selling video games of the fall, with more than 10 million units shipped in the first month it was on sale. A big part of its success was superior marketing.
For …
Intel chief executive Paul Otellini confidently asserted today that the world’s biggest chip maker is pulling ahead of its rivals in chip manufacturing technology.
Speaking to analysts in a quarterly conference call, Otellini said Intel has begun manufacturing its 22-nanometer, …
