Today’s funding roundup: The purse strings seem to be loosening
There was a slate of significant funding announcements today from companies representing a variety of tech sectors—a good sign in terms of...
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Is the next big startup opportunity a Facebook killer?
Caroline McCarthy of Cnet reported today about a group of NYU students working on a new social networking site called Diaspora that is (very)...
Featured Pitch: doddle/ Mobile Imagination
Company: doddle/ Mobile Imagination, LLC Website:www.doddleme.com Headquarters: Jupiter, Florida Year Founded: 2009 Founders: Jim Robertson and...
Funding continues to heat up for social media and mobile startups
Funding news for a Monday: Via Mashable: Syncapse Raises $3.3M for SocialTALK Social Media Management Platform Via VentureBeat: Demdex raises...
BookRenter—an idea whose time has come
This is a cool idea—BookRenter is a startup in the business of renting textbooks (both hard copy and electronic) to college students. The...
Big funding round for bandwidth management co. Infineta; Another online marketing firm raises significant $$
Some startup funding news for the end of the week: Via VentureBeat: Infineta raises $15M to help bandwidth-hungry businesses Via TechCrunch:...
Tinychat—not your standard chat/conferencing client
Just when you thought there was limited innovation in chat, an interesting startup is proving you wrong. Tinychat allows users to quickly and...
Newsy raises $2 million for mobile news “analysis”; Iron Key gets much more for beefed-up USB drives
Some startup funding news of note for this week so far: Via VentureBeat: Newsy raises $2M for honest-to-God mobile video journalism Also via...
Threadsy bets it can unify the social web
Threadsy is a startup that is trying to accomplish what no company has yet been able to do—make all of our lives easier by creating a unified...
Competition between Apple and Google heats up—a boon for tech startups?
Based on recent activity, including the recent acquisitions of mobile ad networks AdMob (acquired by Google) and Quattro Wireless (acquired by...
Featured Pitch: Coincident TV
Company: Coincident TV Website: www.coincident.tv Twitter: @coincident_tv Headquarters: San Francisco Year Founded: 2008 Founders: David Kaiser and...
New Funding for LivingSocial and Thinking Screen Media
Some funding notes for today: Via Mashable: Groupon Competitor LivingSocial Has Now Raised $44 Million This YearVia TechCrunch: Thinking Screen...
