Marketing platform Bislr nabs $3.5M to help SMBs tone down the crazy

Bislr wants to help SMBs manage their online marketing activities by creating one platform to rule them all.

Bob on Twitter, Bo on Facebook, and BJ on Pinterest are all one guy. CrowdTwist helps you sell to him

"There are new channels popping up every week, and consumers are spending time with brands in new places ... engaging with brands like the Miami Dolphins across eight to 10 channels, which makes them look like eight to 10 people."

Enterprise marketing tech firm Unified acquires Y Combinator alumus PageLever

"The core reason for the deal is that we have a killer Facebook advertising solution, and they have a killer Facebook analytics solution," Unified VP of corporate communications Dave Donohue said.

Marketing analytics startup Adometry lands $8M from Shasta Ventures

Adometry, a startup that generates analytics to get a better return on advertising, has raised a $8 million round of funding, the company announced today.

Killing it in enterprise via the Dropbox strategy, Offerpop adds new ‘big data’ product

Offerpop is taking a page from Dropbox. Or Salesforce.com. Or, if you want to go old-school, the personal computer itself.

AppSurfer adds tablet apps to web-based try-before-you-buy Android app demos

While a couple of bucks for an app may not be a big deal, no one wants to waste money. So try-before-you-buy is a great idea, especially for those apps that you can't full evaluate within the 15-minute Google Play refund period.

Facebook’s new regional fan breakdown outs brands that have been buying likes

On December 21 last year, Facebook quietly added the ability to segment fans by region. Which means that social media monitoring companies are now finding all kinds of juicy oddities in fan counts of major brands.

The Associated Press starts selling access to its Twitter feed; Samsung is first customer

The Associated Press is running a sponsored tweets campaign. But the news company is not paying Twitter any money, and the sponsored tweets are not the kind of sponsored tweets that we're used to.