ReachLocal’s $54 million IPO: A good or bad sign?
Local online ad company ReachLocal IPO’ed yesterday, raising $54 million for investors. JP Morgan and Bank America Merrill Lynch...
Funding & Acquisitions News
Stickybits, Loggly, and Libre Digital–‘Interesting’ company names rule the day in funding
Today’s funding roundup:Loggly raises $4.2M for a ‘fun’ approach to server logs (via DealsBeat/VentureBeat) Barcode tagger...
More encouraging VC signs
Here is an interesting note from last week—the latest Cooley report on venture funding indicates that “up” rounds of funding...
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...
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)...
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...
