Lijit raises $3.3M for intimate blog search
Lijit, a provider of a more extensive search service for blogs, has said it raised a $3.3M second round of funding.
Lijit, of Louisville, Colorado, doesn’t limit readers to searching blog posts. It also provides them results from the host blogger’s own accounts at Flickr, Digg,… Continue Reading
Altair raises $18M for mobile WiMAX chips
Altair, an Israeli company, is joining the race to be at the forefront of what some believe will be telecom’s next hot trend—mobile WiMAX. Altair, which makes chips that work with mobile WiMAX networks, announces today an $18M round of funding.
Mobile WiMAX is considered attractive… Continue Reading
Kyte.tv, the online TV widget company, receives investment from Nokia Growth Partners
Kyte.tv, the San Francisco company allowing users to create their own TV channels online or on a mobile phone, today announced an investment in the “single digit millions” from Nokia Growth Partners, the venture capital arm of Nokia. This is Kyte.tv’s third round of financing… Continue Reading
Eye-Fi raises $5.5M for digital camera WiFi
Mountain View, Calif.-based Eye-Fi, a company building digital camera memory cards with built-in wireless and a service that allows users to automatically upload their photos to a PC or the Internet, today closed a $5.5 first round of funding from Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures.
Eye-Fi,… Continue Reading
Parallels bridges the PC-Mac gap
Parallels Desktop, software that lets Intel-based Mac users run Windows applications, is set to release version 3.0 Wednesday, and is significant because it integrates with the filesystem and allows Windows to be run alongside Mac OS. Web developers are excited because Parallels allows them to… Continue Reading
Tumri, the online ad network, raises $10M more
Tumri, online advertising company that lets publishers choose the type of advertisers they want to run in a so-called AdPod on their Web sites, has raised a $10 million second round of funding.
Lehman Brothers Venture Partners led the round, which included existing investors Shasta… Continue Reading
Tumri gives you more control over ad widgets
Tumri, an online ad network, today releases a service called Tumri Publisher to give publishers more control over ads displayed on their site.
Tumri Publisher allows users to create custom, branded ads called AdPods based on product category. For example, a blog about books could choose… Continue Reading
Vflyer offers mobile classifieds
Vflyer, the San Francisco-based classifieds company, today adds a new mobile service to distribute and manage classified ads on mobile devices.
It looks particularly useful for real estate agents, who are always on the go. The offering gives them a way of quickly sending classifieds… Continue Reading
April 16: A sad day for all Americans
(Editor’s note: Michael Foroobar, a contributor at VentureBeat, attends the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech’s traditional rival a short two-hour drive away.)
Please take a moment of silence for those affected by the massacre at Virginia Tech yesterday, the worst shooting of its kind in U.S…. Continue Reading
Facebook’s redesign, drops “that Guy”
Facebook released its anticipated redesign today. Features include individual pages for networks, an “Inbox” more closely resembling email, and a new navigation scheme, as expected.
Facebook is also becoming more corporate. Notice the familiar Facebook “that Guy” logo has been dropped, leaving only the Facebook name…. Continue Reading
Streetadvisor, offering user-generated street reputations
Ever wanted to buy a house, but weren’t sure about the vibe of the street it was on?
Streetadvisor.com—based in Melbourne, Australia—just launched a site that lets people comment on, and find information about, streets in their neighborhood. If you’re buying or renting a home,… Continue Reading