Media
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GoDaddy Buys Media Temple To Build Up Its Business With Web Professionals
Domain registration and hosting company GoDaddy is continuing on its acquisitions roll, with the announcement today that it acquired Media Temple, a premium domain hosting and website services company based out of Los Angeles that targets website development professionals. Financial terms are not being disclosed. [Update: But website builder Virb that Media Temple bought in 2011 is spinning out.] Read More
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Yandex Buys KinoPoisk, ‘Russia’s IMDb’, To Move Into Film Search And Recommendation
Yandex, the search company often referred to as the Google of Russia, is today announcing its latest acquisition: KinoPoisk, an online film database known as "the IMDb of Russia" (after the Amazon-owned company that KinoPoisk recreated in Russia) with some 18.6 million visitors per month. Read More
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Unbundled Channels Coming To Canada, But Terrible Taste Could Make It A Disaster
If you want History Channel, you also have to get Biography Baby or something non-fictional but equally dumb. It's the magic of cable and satellite bundles, and it's the Way Things Are Done. But in Canada, that might not be true much longer, as the government is gearing up to force Canadian satellite and cable providers to unbundle channels and offer them to customers on an a la carte basis. Read More
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Another One Bites The Dust: Boston Court Denies Preliminary Injunction Against Aereo
Refusing to pipe down today, Aereo has just confirmed that a federal judge has ruled in favor of Aereo in its legal battle with Hearst Stations in Boston, one of three currently ongoing lawsuits between the streaming TV startup and major network broadcasters, the other in New York and most recently Utah. Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton issued a ruling that denies the plaintiff a motion for… Read More
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YC-Backed Kippt Takes Its Enterprise Tool For Sharing Useful Content Out Of Beta
They’re a talented team of two from Finland that got Y Combinator’s stamp of approval and built a promising product for storing and sharing content from across the web. But consumer-facing browser extensions can prove difficult for growing a large user base, so this startup, Kippt, did a little pivot. After launching more than a year ago, they refocused on the enterprise market with a… Read More
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Thing5
- Size Not available
- Round Private_equity
- Investors TZP Capital Partners
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Butter Systems
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Fenox Venture Capital
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immatics biotechnologies
- Size $43.7M
- Round D
- Investors dievini Hopp Biotech Holding, Wellington Partners, AT Impf
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Aquarius Biotechnologies
- Size $327.3K
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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Biscotti
- Size $500K
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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Centice
- Size $115K
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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Pollen.
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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Cisiv
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Albion Ventures
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Genocea Biosciences
- Size $400K
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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HipCricket
- Size $9.6M
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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Halotechnics
- Size $31K
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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JP3 Measurement
- Size $3M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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TerraGo Technologies
- Size $995K
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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ID Quantique
- Size $5.6M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors QWave Capital
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Tissuetech
- Size $1.4M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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SundaySky
- Size $20M
- Round C
- Investors Comcast Ventures, Carmel Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, Liberty ... See More
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BoardProspects
- Size $2.4M
- Round A
- Investors Not available
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Regalii
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Fenox Venture Capital
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Thinking Phone Networks
- Size $10M
- Round C
- Investors Advanced Technology Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners
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Druva
- Size $25M
- Round C
- Investors Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital
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BlueYield
- Size Not available
- Round A
- Investors QED Investors
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7signal Solutions
- Size $4M
- Round B
- Investors Allos Ventures, Mutual Capital Partners Funds, North Coast Angel Fund
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LogiAnalytics.com
- Size $27.5M
- Round Private_equity
- Investors LLR Partners, Updata Partners
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StarMobile
- Size $2.5M
- Round A
- Investors GRA Venture Fund, US Venture Partners, Atlanta Technology Angels
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1366 Technologies
- Size $15M
- Round C
- Investors Tokuyama
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Lacoon Security
- Size $8M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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mParticle
- Size $3M
- Round Seed
- Investors Bowery Capital, Google Ventures, Greylock Partners, Michael Barrett ... See More
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Cozy
- Size $5M
- Round Private_equity
- Investors Not available
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CENTRI Technology
- Size $500K
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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Sofie Biosciences
- Size $5M
- Round A
- Investors MRM Capital, Cycad Group
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Aereo For Android Launches On October 22
Android users, how would you like 30 live TV channels to be available on your phone or tablet at any given time or place? If that sounds like you, then happy Thursday. Aereo, the company that streams live television and DVR service to iPhone, iPad and desktop users across the country, is today announcing that Android users will be able to join in on the fun starting on October 22. Read More
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Ustwo Spends To Keep Whale Trail Flying: From Mobile Game To E-Book To Kids’ TV Show
London-based app developer/digital UI studio ustwo's psychedelic Whale Trail mobile game has racked up more than 3.68 million downloads across Android and iOS since being released in October 2011. The app has also just broken even. For its next trick ustwo wants to turn Whale Trail into a kids' TV show. Read More
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Cameo Shoots For The Sweet Spot In The Crowded Video App Space
Tell me if you've heard this one before: Today a new video sharing app launches out of beta! This one's called Cameo, and, unlike many video sharing services who pare down as many editing offerings as possible in the name of mobile simplicity, Cameo looks to simplify a fully functional editing suite on mobile. And if that weren't enough, the app promises to let multiple users co-shoot a video… Read More
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A GitHub For Musicians, GroupMe Founder’s ‘Splice’ Aids Collaboration With Song Version Control
Music production can be a nightmare. If you don't save after every change, you can't go back, and it's tough for collaborators to know who tweaked what. Splice wants to redefine the musician workflow. The new startup from GroupMe co-founder Steve Martocci opens its private beta today that lets artists auto-backup every update to a song, and share a timeline of changes and comments with their team. Read More
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Coursmos Is A Bite-Sized E-learning Platform For The Twitter Generation
Russian startup Coursmos reckons it's spotted a soundbite-sized gap in the e-learning delivery space. Unlike the long-form commitment required to take a typical MOOC, its online courses are broken down into "smaller, more manageable chunks" -- basically minutes-long video lessons that can be gobbled down on your phone on the bus to work. Read More
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Aereo’s Legal Battle Extends To Utah As Fox, Other Broadcasters File Suit
Unsurprisingly, TV broadcasters don't like that Aereo is taking the content they provide freely over-the-air and putting it on the Internet for everyone to enjoy. The startup is currently embroiled in a number of court cases over its product, and now that legal battle enters a new arena with Fox Broadcasting Co., Sinclair Broadcast Group and Local TV launching a new Federal Court suit. Read More
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Apple Reportedly Bringing iTunes Radio To UK, Canada And More In Early 2014
iTunes Radio is one of the best new parts of iOS 7 (and the most recent update to the iTunes desktop media management software), but it's a U.S. exclusive. As is often the case with new movie/music/TV media products, Apple has launched the feature first in its home (and largest) market, likely because it focused on locking down streaming radio rights in the U.S. first. Now, Bloomberg reports that… Read More
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Fox News And Its Big-Ass Touchscreens
And in this week's episode of absolutely bizarre behavior from Fox News, we bring you BATS, officially known as big area touchscreens. The media outlet responsible for bringing fair and balanced news into our lives has today released a video that shows off the network's brand-new Fox News Deck studio, a room filled with video walls and giant 55-inch touchscreens that will henceforth deliver the… Read More
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With An Eye On Revenue, Snapchat “Experiments” With A Click-To-Buy Button
Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has kept quiet about how Stories, the app's new 24-hour timeline play, might turn into a monetization route. However, the team has partnered up with a number of bands to bring Stories to life, in quick commercials that show how a band (or a regular user, perhaps) might use Stories to connect with others over the course of a day. However, despite the lack… Read More
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Google Acquires YC-Backed Flutter, A Gesture Recognition Technology Startup, For Around $40M
Google's Glass, Android and other products may soon be picking up more Kinect-style gesture features: the company has bought Flutter, a Y Combinator-backed startup that focuses on gesture recognition technology. Its first and only product -- an app that provides gesture detection and recognition from standard webcam devices -- will remain live and operational, the company says. Read More
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Interlude Lets You, The Viewer, Decide The Outcome Of A Video With Treehouse Launch
If you have a human, emotional heart, chances are you’ve felt an intense longing to change the outcome of a movie or TV show. When Ned Stark is up on that platform, with King Joffrey ordering his death, I’ll bet you wanted to grab the remote and magically command the television to let him live. I can’t tell you how many times I hoped against hope that Jack would live through the… Read More
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Spotify Takes Its Follow Button Outside Its Walled Garden, Lets Fans Follow Musicians And Others From Anywhere
Following the launch of its Play music-playing button last year, today Spotify took one more step outside of its walled garden: it has launched a new Follow button, a widget that can go on any desktop or mobile page, not just pages within Spotify itself (as the Follow button previously used to work), to let users follow other profiles within Spotify. Read More
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Taking First Steps Into Monetization, Viber Messaging App Announces A Sticker Market
Viber, the app that has promised free messaging and calls to its users since it’s inception, has today announced it’s first step into monetization. As has been the case with competing apps like WhatsApp, MessageMe, and even Facebook Messenger, Viber plans to use stickers, large clipart-style emoticons and text, to generate revenue. The company will be creating its own paid content, as… Read More
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To Put Its Listening Rooms On More Platforms, Soundrop Picks Up $3.4M Led By Spotify Investor Northzone
Norwegian startup Soundrop first made its name as an app on Spotify, tapping into the streaming platform's catalog to create real-time group listening rooms that were popular places for Spotify users to congregate for more social listening experiences. But as Spotify has become a more social platform by default, Soundrop is expanding what it does, and where it does it. Today, it is announcing a… Read More
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Digital Ads Will Be 22% Of All U.S. Ad Spend In 2013, Mobile Ads 3.7%; Total Global Ad Spend In 2013 $503B
Global ad spend in 2013 will see steady growth of 3.5% to reach $503 billion by the end of the year, and the amount going into internet advertising will continue to get larger, according to figures out today from Publicis-owned ad agency ZenithOptimedia. In the U.S. -- disporportionately the largest single ad market -- digital in 2013 will account for 21.8% of all ad spend ($109.7 billion), up… Read More
