There’s more big money going into video startups: Maker Studios, which ranks among the top networks of creators publishing on YouTube, announced today that it has closed a $36 million round of financing led by Time Warner Investments. The …

  With a high-stakes 2013 looming in which its first slate of in-house developed films will be released, Legendary Entertainment has raised $443 million in new equity financing, the company announced Tuesday.   The deal gives asset management and financial …

  Video syndication network News Distribution Network (NDN) jumped to No. 3 in comScore’s ranking of the top online video properties in October, with an audience of 53.2 million, up from 40.5 million in September.   NDN distributes video to …

  ROSEVILLE, Calif. & LOS ANGELES, Nov 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Revionics, Inc., the leading provider of End-to-End Merchandise Optimization solutions, and GIIV, Inc., owner of the SkuLoop business, the cutting edge provider of social commerce driven promotions for …

  Digital marketing technology firm BrightTag has sealed a partnership with Yahoo! Japan, the companies said Wednesday.   Chicago-based BrightTag makes software to help website owners manage "tags," or bits of code planted by outside marketers to collect users' data …

  Yahoo has acquired the company behind 1-year-old mobile recommendations app Stamped, its first since ex-Google exec Marissa Mayer became CEO of the company in July, Mashable has learned.   The acquisition was purely for talent: Stamped’s nine-person team — …

  Ness Computing, a startup that has developed a highly personalized, data-driven search engine, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by SingTel Innov8 with American Express Ventures participating in the round. Ness previously raised $5 million from …

biNu is actively playing an important part in emerging markets. The company has managed the impossible feat of making social media sites, like Facebook and Twitter, as fast on any Java-running 2G feature phone as  on a 3G smartphone. As …

It might not be Spy vs. Spy exactly, but today’s business fortunes are increasingly won or lost on intelligence. In the brave new digital economy where consumers and their behaviors can be modeled with breathtaking specificity based on their online …

The Cisco Networking Academy is the largest education program in the world you’ve probably never heard of. The Academy, which is Cisco System’s largest and longest-running corporate responsibility program, partners with over 10,000 universities, community colleges, and high schools to …

DALLAS, May 29, 2012 — Mozido, a provider of white-labeled, multi-channel financial services, added new depth and expertise to an already strong management team and board of directors. Acquiring world class talents with strong track record in the global cloud-based …

Fullbridge, Inc. announced today that the company has raised a $5.5 million investment round through top investors, including GSV Capital Corp., the investment fund headed by Michael Moe. Top education proponent and industry veteran, Moe, will also be joining Fullbridge's …

Appia, an app marketplace and white-label app platform, is broadening its support for Android with the introduction of Pay Per Install App Advertising for Google Play (formerly known as the Android Market). Up until now, all the downloads generated through …

Big corporations have been riddled by security attacks over the past year, and hackers seem to be growing even bolder and more resolute. As a result, market research firm The Radicati Group said that it expects the corporate web security …

Chicago-based digital marketing technology firm BrightTag said Wednesday it has raised $15 million in its third and largest round of funding.   Baird Venture Partners led the round, making it the fresh face of the group. The other investors have …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Fullbridge, Inc., announced the appointment of Stuart Goldfarb as President. Goldfarb brings decades of experience and insight to spearheading the growth of The Fullbridge Program, a high-end boot camp that accelerates a successful transition between college and …

Titan Gaming, the makers of a gaming platform that enables content sites and social networks to offer cash and prize-based game tournaments, is today announcing that it is embarking on a complete makeover that includes its rebranding as Playsino, along …

Mobile payments platform Beamit, which focuses on international money transfers between the U.S. and developing markets, has just closed a $2.4 million seed round led by Founder’s Co-op, with participation from Bezos Expeditions (the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos), …

Maker Studios is the latest Los Angeles company to recruit a Silicon Valley stalwart, hiring Ryan Lissack as its first ever CTO. Lissack, who was most recently the Senior Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce.com, joined the next-generation content network …

Today Xfire enters a new era of global expansion through the formation of a joint venture (JV) with the China Youth Goyor Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. Led by newly appointed Xfire CEO Malcolm CasSelle, Xfire and China Youth Goyor Technology …

Burbank, CA – Legendary Entertainment has completed separate equity and debt financing deals totaling approximately $275 million in aggregate proceeds. The equity component consists of $128 million in new financing from a collection of new and existing investors. Existing Legendary …

Mobile web and ad optimization startup AppStack has just closed a $1.5 million seed round from Google Ventures, Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures, 500 Startups, Gary Vaynerchuk, Don Dodge, and Punchbowl founder Matt Douglas.   It’s not a huge surprise that …

ATLANTA, GA – Sharecare®, the interactive health and wellness social platform co-founded by Jeff Arnold and two-time Emmy® Award-winning television host, Dr. Mehmet Oz, today announced its acquisition of RealAge®, the leading consumer health assessment website centered on the groundbreaking …

Prism SkyLabs, a cloud-based service that allows business owners to bring video feeds online, capture images from these feeds and share this data with consumers and the public, is announcing integration with Google+, YouTube and Picasa today.   Here’s how …

MindJolt, the gaming company led by MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, recently announced that it’s changing its name to the Social Gaming Network. DeWolfe spoke to me earlier this week about the name change, and about his plans for the coming …

You may have heard the buzz by now about a young startup that’s being fueled by some pretty impressive star power, including the likes of the one and only Lady Gaga. The project, called Backplane, was co-founded by Lady Gaga’s …

In March of last year, DailyWorth, the personal finance community for women, raised $850K from Robin Hood Ventures, Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures, Howard Lindzon’s Social Leverage, 500 Startups, and more. And, in January, the startup added $2 million more.   Not …

SALT LAKE CITY — Instructure™ (www.instructure.com) announced Canvas K-12™, a new learning management platform that co-enrolls parents with their students in schools, makes state standards tracking painless and provides actionable analytics to teachers and administrators. More than a dozen K-12 …

The huge success of online shopping and advertising—led by giants like Amazon and Google—is in no small part thanks to software that logs when you visit Web pages and what you click on. Startup Prism Skylabs offers brick-and-mortar businesses the …

Both Mike Jones and Peter Pham have had their entrepreneurial ups and downs.   Evidently, the downs haven’t dampened their ambition. Just two months after officially launching Science, an L.A.-based “technology studio” founded by Jones, Pham, and three of their …

Early last summer we wrote about Backplane, a mysterious startup with impressive backers and some major star power behind it: one of its cofounders, Troy Carter, is Lady Gaga’s manager. And Lady Gaga herself has a significant stake in the …

Review by Eric Eldon of TechCrunch   I made heavy use of Ness‘s restaurant-finding iOS app during a recent trip through the East Coast, because lots of places are still sadly short on Yelp reviews, and I wanted a quick …

Sharecare, an interactive health and wellness social platform providing people with access to expert-developed answers, information and programs to live their healthiest life, today announced that it has secured $14 million growth equity financing led by Galen Partners along with …

Amplify, a recently launched LA-based startup accelerator is announcing its first set of startups today. As we reported in December, the accelerator, which is being managed by Paul Bricault and Richard Wolpert, will be incubating and investing in companies at …

What do you do when a new industry, which serves the same customers as you do, suddenly appears and starts to grow astronomically? In the case of Los Angeles-based SkuLoop (www.skuloop.com), what you do is you shift your focus to …

In March of last year, DailyWorth, the personal finance daily email and community for women, raised an $850K seed round led by Robin Hood Ventures, with investors like Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures, Social Leverage, 500 Startups, Venture51, Investors’ Circle, Joanne Wilson, …