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Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Unveils iPad SDK And New Ad Formats

With the iPad officially in the hands of consumers, mobile ad networks and platforms are rushing to create iPad specific ad formats. Medialets, Mobclix, and Greystripe have all created ad formats for the device. And AdMob is said to be releasing its iPad-specific SDK in the next few weeks. Mobile ad network Millennial Media is [...]

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Wed, April 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Wix Raises $10 Million For Flash Website And Widget Builder

Startup Wix, which allows users to build flash websites and widgets, has just raised $10 million in Series C funding from Benchmark Capital existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Mangrove Capital Partners participating. This round of founding brings Wix’s total funding to $20 million. You can read our initial review of Wix here.
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Wed, March 24 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Green E-Biller Transactis Raises $2.5 Million

Banks, cable companies, and utilities all want to get rid of their paper bills and get customers on their electronic billing systems. Just as there were back-office billing providers for the paper era, there are now back-office electronic billers. A company in Charlotte, North Carolina called Transactis is one of them, and it just [...]

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Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Tilera Grabs $25 Million From Chip Investors

Tilera, a company that develops multicore processors, has raised $25 million in series C funding from Broadcom Corporation, Quanta Computers and NTT Financing. This brings Tilera’s total funding to $64 million
Tilera says the funding will be used to expand sales operations and for product development. Founded in 2004, Tilera designs multicore embedded processors for [...]

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Mon, March 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Idealab Spin-off Perfect Market Raises $6 Million From Tribune Company, Others

Perfect Market, which markets solutions aimed to assist publishers in growing revenue from their online content, has secured $6 million in a Series C funding round led by Tribune Company.
Just to be clear, that’s the media giant that owns newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune alongside a number of television [...]

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Wed, March 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Social Shopping Site ThisNext Confirms Funding, Acquires Stylehive

Social e-commerce company ThisNext recently raised a Series C round of $1.2 million, which we reported based on an SEC filing. The Santa Monica, CA startup has now confirmed the financing round and also announced that it has acquired smaller rival Stylehive for an undisclosed amount.
ThisNext set up an entirely new parent company, Curatemedia, which [...]

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Mon, February 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments