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Taboola’s $117mn Round Welcomes Comcast, Publishers

FORT LAUDERDALE — Content marketing discovery platform Taboola has completed its late...

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Interview: How Deezer’s CEO will spend his €100 million music round
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Kaltura’s $50m Financing Funds ‘Everything Video’ Expansion
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Spotify Secures Its Funding For International Expansion
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Vice Media Takes Investment From WPP, Others
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‘We Invented Outstream’: Teads’ Jim Daily After $47m Fundraising
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German Start-up “wywy” Raises $7 Million to Globalize Second-Screen Ads
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Trustpilot takes €10 million to help consumers rate etailers
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Ex Apple VP backs payment platform Cleeng to break U.S.
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Open-source video’s Kaltura takes $25 million to go to Asia
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After Flipboard and Tumblr, Chernin bets on YouTube video boom
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Le Kiosk raising €5.6 million to make bundled tablet mags social
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Nordic news publisher Schibsted buying in to ebook service Riidr
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Italian publishers’ online ad firm financed to develop new formats

An open online advertising consortium of Italian publishers may soon get a leg up aft...

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Music supplier 7digital takes $10 million to do on-demand, radio
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‘Russian CrunchBase’ raises $3 million to showcase RuNet startups
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Tvinci raises $4.5 million to pitch its mobile TV platform worldwide
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Mobile ads are booming, with more sales and more investment
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In Warner’s stable, Deezer has funds for costly global Spotify fight
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Deutsche Telekom, Bertelsmann invest in a German content factory
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Ivi.ru is Hollywood’s route to Russian VOD
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Majorca’s Playspace takes Miami money to build social games
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Boxee backer Pitango tools up with $150 million for Israeli tech
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Welsh broadcaster S4C’s £4 million digital fund is open for business
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Phorm raising millions more for ad targeting in Turkey
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Publishing startup RollUp Media takes €1.2 million from Arts Alliance
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Virtual product placement tech’s MirriAd raising more money

UK-based MirriAd, whose software technology overlays brands and their products in to ...

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Network Ten takes a stake in Zeebox Down Under
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What a Big Tech investment could mean for Vevo
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Phorm taking even more money for ad targeting dream, now in China
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Playfish co-founders take on more VC to fund learning games
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Confirmed: Pinterest taking $100m for e-commerce play
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Microstock’s stock is rising: $265 million for Shutterstock, Fotolia
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Avito.ru takes $75 million for Russian small web ads
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USA – Techonology – Google Introduces T-Mobile G1
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Spanish mobile ad net TapTap takes $4.5 million to launch in America
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Content payment system Piano takes more funding to go global
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Spotify sales near $900 million, but reach comes before return
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BBCWW invests in mobile game tech firm Spaceport
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Israeli video ad tech firm Hiro takes $5 million to expand in U.S.
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PeerIndex Taking On $3 Million To Quantify Influence, Glocer Among Backers

PeerIndex, a service started by a former Reuters (NYSE: TRI) and Economist journalist...

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Is Facebook Worth $100 Billion? Investors Bullish, Analyst Cautious
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Roku Needs To Raise $50 Million To Go Global
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IM+ App Maker Takes $10 Million From Russia’s Finam
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Flaregames And Tusjuegos Take Funds To Build And Sell Games
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Axel Springer Takes A Slice Of Airbnb In Exposure Deal
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BSkyB Buys Stake In Social TV Start-Up Zeebox
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Unruly Raises $25 Million For Social Video Advertising
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SoundCloud Adds $50 Million And Meeker For U.S. Expansion
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ePub Direct Funded To Supply E-Books To Kindle, iBooks Et Al
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Outbrain Adds Another $35 Million For European Expansion
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Express Invests £100 Million In 25-Year Future For News Print
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Express Invests £100 Million In 25-Year Future For News Print
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Netflix’s Global Funding Makes Sense — If It Can Rescue Domestic
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WPP Re-Invests In Chinese Video Game Ads Company

WPP and Revolution Capital are making a second investment in InGameAdvertising, the S...

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Skimlinks Takes $4.5 Million Bertelsmann Investment For Affiliate Links
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PlayJam Takes $5 Million To Go Global With Its Connected TV Games
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WPP Buying Further In To Chinese Online Ad Measurement
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Phorm Raises Yet Another £30 Million, Valuing Itself At £100 Million
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Slovakia’s Paid Content System Funded For European Expansion
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Top10.com Scores $3.5 Million For Its Website Of Lists
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Africa’s Umuntu Gets $1 Million To Build Web And Mobile Portals
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Africa’s Umuntu Gets $1 Million To Build Web And Mobile Portals
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MyVideoRights Takes Money And Changes Name For Global Device Assault
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Where Are SeeSaw’s Missing Millions?
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Chinese Game Firm Perfect World Puts Up $100 Million For Investment
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Corbis Takes A Piece Of User-News Service Demotix
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USA – Business – TechCrunch Disrupt Conference
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AOL Buying Back $250 Million Of Its Stock
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Confirmed: Spotify Valued At $1.1 Billion For Global Push

Spotify raised about €69 ($98.15/£59.97) million at a valuation of €774 ($1101.02/£67...

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Netcars Takes Seven-Figure Funding To ‘Challenge’ AutoTrader
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Chinese Portal Tencent Gives Staff $155 Million In Interest-Free Home Loans
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Game World Maker Mind Candy Valued At $200 Million
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Shazam Takes Another $32 Million Funding For TV Tagging
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Music’s We7 Funded To Be ‘European Pandora’
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Music’s We7 Funded To Be ‘European Pandora’
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Chinese Alternative Android Market GoAPK Funded
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Rupert, Wendi And Google In Chinese Video Site’s $200 Million IPO
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Rupert, Wendi And Google In Chinese Video Site’s $200 Million IPO
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Local Ad Network Addiply Funded To Go To Next Phase
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Local Ad Network Addiply Funded To Go To Next Phase
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T-Mobile Has Invested In App Maker 6Wunderkinder
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T-Mobile Has Invested In App Maker 6Wunderkinder
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TweetDeck Raised Investment Because It Didn’t Want To Sell Ads
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Europeans Cash-Up In Social Games Rush
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VC Round-Up: Brightpearl, Travelmenu.ru, MobiCart
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VC Round-Up: Brightpearl, Travelmenu.ru, MobiCart
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Conversocial Takes £1.5 Million For Social Marketing Monitoring

Barely an hour goes past these days without me catching mention of the awesome opport...

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VC Round-Up: Simfy, EnQii & Minicim, Uma
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We R Interactive Raises $5 Million To Make Online Games
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More European Investments Concentrated In Fewer Hands
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Two-Way Media Financed By Ingenious To Make Social TV Games
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KupiVIP Takes Record Funding To Be Western Retailers’ Gateway To Russia
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Mediastay Funded For Online Games, Offers, Marketing
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Ad Optimizer Rocket Fuel Takes Another $6.6 Million In Funding
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Badoo WLTM Investors For Overseas Fun, Maybe Something More
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The Filter Takes On More Funding For Content Recommendation
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The Filter Takes On More Funding For Content Recommendation
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Just-Eat Gobbles $48 Million Funding To Go Global
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Is Spotify’s $1 Billion Value A Bubble Bellwether?
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From Russia With Two $1 Billion Deals?: Spotify And Yandex
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From Russia With Two $1 Billion Deals?: Spotify And Yandex
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RatedPeople Raised £3 Million For Tradesmen Recommendations

Yet another way in which “social” online is powering real-world consumer interactions...

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Songkick Raising $2 Million More Funding
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Console Social Platform Raptr Takes $15 Million Funding
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SocialGo Network Builder Raises £1.3 Million In Share Issue
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Video Remixer Masher Takes £250k North-East Funding
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‘Open’ Textbooks Provider Flat World Inks Berteslmann Investment
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‘Open’ Textbooks Provider Flat World Inks Berteslmann Investment
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Mobile Platform Netbiscuits Takes T-Mobile Investment To Go Global
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Mobile Platform Netbiscuits Takes T-Mobile Investment To Go Global
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Index Ventures Opens In Bay Area For Transatlantic Digital Investing
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Social Net Builder SocialGO Needs More Money From The City
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SoundCloud Gets Investment From Union Square, Index
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Arty Movie Service MUBI Takes $2.4 Million Funding
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Swedish Music Service Launching In U.S. (No, Not That One)
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France’s Bon-Prive Raises €1.5 Million In Daily Deals Craze
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Mobile Location ‘Game’ SCVNGR Raises $15 Million From Balderton, Google

With the combo of location, mobile and loyalty deals having been seemingly anointed 2...

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Zoopla Taking More Investment And Debt For Marketing
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VC Round-Up: Performance Horizon, Admeta, Hotelyo Find Funds
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Metro Networking Site CitySocialising Raises £1 Million
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Qype Raises €6.5 Million, Helping Vodafone Buy In To Local Reviews
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Related-Links Blog Plugin Zemanta Raises $3 Million
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Google Ventures Backs Vacation Rentals Site HomeAway
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