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May 2012

White Label App Platform Appia Rolls Out Pay Per Install Service For Google Play

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 …

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Apr 2012

Shape Security: Kleiner Perkins & Eric Schmidt Lead $6M Round In Stealth Security Startup

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 …

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Apr 2012

BrightTag raises $15M in latest funding round

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 …

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Apr 2012

Fullbridge, Inc. Names Stuart Goldfarb President

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 …

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Apr 2012

New Funding In Tow, Playsino Places Its Bet On Social Casino Gaming

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 …

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Apr 2012

Mobile Payments Startup Beamit Raises $2.4M From Founder’s Co-op, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt & Others

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), …

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Apr 2012

Maker Studios Hires Former Salesforce Exec Ryan Lissack as CTO

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 …

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Apr 2012

Xfire Appoints New CEO, Malcolm CasSelle, and Announces Joint Venture with China Youth Goyor Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. to Support Significant Expansion into China

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 …

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Apr 2012

Legendary Closes $275 Million in New Financing

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 …

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Mar 2012

Mobile Ad Optimization Startup AppStack Raises $1.5M From Eric Schmidt, Google Ventures And Others

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 …