TC Disrupt: Innovation rules
It’s certainly no secret that TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference took place this week. The highlight of the event was arguably the...
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BlockChalk, another hyperlocal mobile app company, raises funds
Today’s funding roundup: BlockChalk Draws $1 Million In Seed Financing From Schachter, Battery, And Founder Collective (via TechCrunch) ...
Forbes makes a play in online media with True/Slant buy
Today’s funding roundup: Forbes Acquires Freelance News Startup True/Slant (via TechCrunch) AOL Co-founder Steve Case Backs Online...
DeHood seeks to bring “hyperlocal” to social networks
Over the years, hyperlocal has been tried numerous times on the web by news/media sites in particular, but no one has been able to get it quite...
Palo Alto-based Guardian Analytics garners $9 million to help banks stay a step ahead of cybercriminals
Today’s funding roundup: Guardian Analytics raises $9M to protect banks from cybertheft (via VentureBeat) Gaikai raises $10M as digital...
Y Combinator expands with $8.5 million in funding
Today’s funding roundup: 2 Months Out, 74% of Latest Y Combinator Class Funded or Profitable (via GigaOm) Cocodot Raises $2 Million...
Funding for mobile video firm Movidius coincides with Google’s TV/video initiative unveiling
Today’s funding roundup: Mobile video specialist Movidius brings in $7.5M (via VentureBeat) Confirmed: Tweetdeck Gets $3M (via...
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...
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)...
