Yahoo buys mobile game ad company Actionality
Yahoo continues to increase its offerings in mobile services. Earlier this month, it bought a small game startup called Actionality.
Yahoo’s expanding line of mobile services already includes games, and this purchase gives Yahoo another place to sell ads. Actionality sticks ads into mobile games and other applications as they’re being downloaded from a mobile web browser to a phone; competitors include Greystripe.
Yahoo also recently announced that it is expanding its mobile ad services to include… Continue Reading
MBA Polymers raises $20M to recycle “anything” with plastic
MBA Polymers, a Richmond, Calif company that recycles engineering plastics from waste streams and things like used computers, automobiles and sporting equipment, has raised at least $20 million
This is a 15-year-old business, co-founded by former Dow Chemical Co. engineers Mike Biddle and Trip Allen. The funding is the latest evidence of how interest by investors in green technologies lately is transforming start-ups and mature companies alike.
VentureWire (sub required) first reported the news of the funding… Continue Reading