Today’s funding announcements include software for children’s apps, easy advertising, malware protection and bionic knees:
Ruckus Media lands $3.5M for storybook apps: The developer of mobile apps geared toward children has raised a first round of funding led by Alsop …
140Fire, which slaps interactive advertisements like polls on streaming video, announced that it is launching today at the Launch Conference in San Francisco.
The advertisements pop up like most other advertisements do on videos — as a small bar at …
The scene: a conference room at Groupon HQ, last Thursday.
Marketing Guy One: “Hmm. Kenneth Cole tweeted something jokey today about Egyptians going crazy for his spring collection and he’s being pummeled mercilessly online for being “extraordinarily tin-eared” — whatever …
Search provider Yahoo’s revenue slipped slightly, with revenue from search results falling 27 percent, its U.S. operations continuing to falter and minor growth in Asia keeping the company from posting significant losses.
Yahoo’s net revenue was down 12 percent from …
The founders of Groupon and Foursquare took the stage at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich today and said they didn’t sell their companies when they had a chance to do so because they aren’t finished with what they …
Guest Post
Will Price is CEO of Widgetbox, which offers media-rich ads and widgets to increase online engagement.
Brand marketers spend $20 billion a year on display advertising. The goal? Drive brand recall and purchase intent. The medium? Pictures, text, and call-to-action …
Baynote, a provider of software for websites that helps generate more relevant links and search engine results for readers, announced today that it has raised $13 million in its second round of fundraising led by SingTel Innov8.
The actual service …
TargetSpot, a provider of advertising for online radio services, announced today that it has raised $8 million in its most recent round of fundraising.
The network is geared toward music radio services like CBS Radio and Yahoo Music. Advertisers can …
AOL announced this morning that it has acquired New York-based Pictela, a service that distributes promotional content like videos, photos, and coupons across top publishers such as AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Glam Media.
While the terms of the acquisition were not …
Folks who had a hard time believing that Twitter was worth $1 billion a year ago are going to have an even harder time swallowing the company’s new valuation.
AllThingsDigital’s Kara Swisher reports that Twitter just raised a $200 million …
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You see, the latest red-hot technology, the keys to the proverbial kingdom, the ultimate cash-cow money machine …
Spending on online advertising will grow by double-digit percentages over the next four years, ending at close to double its current value by 2014, according to a new forecast by marketing research firm eMarketer.
The research firm estimated online ad …
Monetate, a provider of website testing and ad targeting services, announced today that it has raised $5.1 million in its first round of funding.
Targeted advertising seems to be the hot trend now. It can become a bit of a …
Google’s not the only one getting into the increasingly lucrative online group buying business. LivingSocial has just scored a $175 million investment from Amazon.com, a deal whose possibility was first reported by VentureBeat last month.
The company is a major …
Social media tracker startup Tynt has launched a new application program interface (API) that allows developers to access their content through real-time data streams, as the rush to put more information in the hands of smartphone users heats up.
Tynt …
myThings, a provider of targeted advertising services, announced today that it has raised $6 million in its most recent round of funding led by Deutsche Telecom investing arm T-Venture to expand its research and development in Europe.
The company, which …
Google has scored a coup for its new TV Ads platform. Google announced today that it has partnered with Verizon FiOS TV, the company’s fiber television offering, to reach 3.3 million homes on over 50 TV networks.
The partnership makes …
In the past few months, Twitter appears to have finally found a business model, and that model is advertising — chief executive Dick Costolo said in September that the company had “cracked the code” on ads. But Twitter co-founder Ev …
In the first major integration between AdMob and Google since the ad network was acquired in May, publishers will soon be able to show Google’s AdSense ads whenever an AdMob ad isn’t available, according to a blog post by Google.…
After years of speculation and jokes about Twitter’s lack of a business model, the microblogging service finally started rolling out advertising products earlier this year. Today, the company’s vice president of engineering Michael Abbott said that even as Twitter continues …
