Integral Development raises $11M for electronic foreign exchange trades

Integral Development, provider of a software platform that connects global financial institutions for electronic foreign exchange trading, just raised $11 million in a round of capital provided in part by Adams Street Partners. The system allows individual investors to make their own trusted trades or… Continue Reading

Soonr raises $3M to give mobile access to home computers

Soonr, maker of software that lets people access content on their home computers from their cell phones, just raised $3 million in third-round funding from Cisco Systems, Clearstone Venture Partners, Intel Capital and Sand Hill Capital, reports VentureWire. Last month, it announced the launch of… Continue Reading

4Info gets $20M more for text message advertising

4Info gets $20M more for text message advertising

4INFO, the Silicon Valley company that serves advertisements in mobile phone text messages, has raised another $20 million in funding.

The money comes from a previous backer, Peacock Equity, a joint venture between NBC Universal and General Electric Commercial Finance, according to a report in the… Continue Reading

Controversial ad company Jellycloud shuts down

Controversial ad company Jellycloud shuts down

The deteriorating economy, and cloudy horizon for the advertising industry, has claimed one more victim: Jellycloud, the ad company I wrote last month that was the latest incarnation of team that ran the controversial Gator and Claria.

Last weekend, it threw in the towel, sent home… Continue Reading

The ad network that keeps changing its stripes: Gator, Claria, and now JellyCloud?

The ad network that keeps changing its stripes: Gator, Claria, and now JellyCloud?

Can a tiger change its stripes? JellyCloud, an ad network company with a controversial past, hopes so.

About eight years ago, it operated under a different name: Gator. The Silicon Valley company attracted lots of users with a useful online vault to save all their personal… Continue Reading

SenSage raises $15M for data storage

Data warehousing startup SenSage has raised a $15 million round of funding led by new backer FTVentures.

The San Francisco company performs “log management”; In other words, it collects and stores data about a company’s online and IT activities, and that data can later be used… Continue Reading

Storage company ONStor pulls IPO plan, raises $25M

ONStor, a data storage equipment maker that had hoped to go public, has pulled those plans and raised another $25 million from investors.

We wrote about OnStor here when signaled its intent to go public, and mentioned the large number of storage companies that were seeking… Continue Reading