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BSkyB Buys Stake In Social TV Start-Up Zeebox For $15+ Million
News Corp-controlled pay-TV firm BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying itself a foothold in the looming social TV field by acquiring 10 percent of the startup Zeebox for a sum that is “double-digit millions” in both pounds and dollars.
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Cox Media Group Plants $6 Million In Content Farm Skyword
Broadcasting, publishing and marketing group Cox Media Group is putting down some more roots in digital media investments: it has announced an investment of $6 million in Skyword, a content farm, to expand Skyword’s business.
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News Corp./Time Warner’s Prince Alwaleed Invests $300 Million In Twitter
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300 million for a strategic stake in the micro-bloging company.
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ePub Direct Funded To Supply E-Books To Kindle, iBooks Et Al
If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector?
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Netflix’s Global Funding Makes Sense—If It Can Rescue Domestic
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) shares opened four percent lower Tuesday after Monday’s after-market announcement that it is taking $400 million to fuel international expansion and that 2012 will be a loss-making year.
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More Money For Masabi: $4 Million For Mobile Ticketing, Expansion Into U.S.
Masabi, the London-based mobile ticketing startup that has nearly cornered the market for train services in the UK, has raised more funding to the tune of $4 million to expand into the U.S. and make its service work with NFC.
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PlayJam Takes $5 Million To Go Global With Its Connected TV Games
PlayJam, which distributes its own and now third-party casual games to TVs in Europe, is taking a $5 million first investment round to help it do the same in the U.S. and Asia.
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Phorm Raises Yet Another £30 Million, Valuing Itself At £100 Million
Phorm, the controversial targeted web ads company that fled to Brazil after privacy concerns blocked its domestic UK fortunes, is taking yet another big fundraising as it goes on trying to finance its expensive global search for business.
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Crowdsourced Navigation App Waze Takes $30 Million To Launch In China
Remember the days when GPS satellite navigation apps were one of the most expensive categories of mobile apps? Some still have premium prices: apps from TomTom, Garmin, CoPilot and Navigon still sell for between £29.99 and £39.99, although these companies have experimented with lower prices too.
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Part Time CFO for Digital Media Startup
Here’s a great opportunity for a student with the right background – Thanks to connections at Rose VC who report that: The company has some great traction, with advisors that include the global head of marketing for Century 21 real … Continue reading
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