Mobile App Store GetJar Lands $11 Million

By
Mark Hefflinger
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San Mateo,
Calif. – GetJar, a mobile
applications store, announced on Thursday that it has raised $11 million in its
second round of venture capital financing, led by Accel Partners.

Founded in
2005, San Mateo, Calif.-based GetJar currently
offers more than 65,000 applications across all major handsets and platforms,
to customers in over 200 countries.

The company says it has to date served more
than 1 billion downloads, and claims to be the second-largest app store, behind
Apple’s.

GetJar will use the new funds for further product development.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/xst5z

http://www.getjar.com

Triggit Raises $4.2 Million for Online Ad Technology

By
Mark Hefflinger
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0

San Francisco
– Triggit, a provider of online advertising technology, has raised $4.2 million
in its first round of funding, led by Spark Capital and Foundry Group.

Also
participating in the round were previous backers Brett and Scott Crosby; Asher
Waldfogel; Ben Narison; Joe Spieser and Alex Zhardanovsky; Gilad Elbaz; Reid
Hoffman; TriplePoint Capital; DG Incubation; Joi Ito; Charles Sprincin; and
Eric Stein.

San Francisco-based Triggit offers a real-time bidding platform for
online advertising, which it says is capable of handling 15 billion
transactions a day.

The company will use the funds to support growth and
international expansion.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/xsr68

First Review of Apple's iPhone 4, iOS 4 Multitasking Roll In

By
Mark Hefflinger
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1

Los Angeles – The first reviews of Apple’s (NASD: AAPL) new iPhone 4 are largely
positive, with David Pogue of The New York Times, Walt Mossberg of The Wall
Street Journal, and gadget blog Engadget weighing in, while PC World attacked
the implementation of the new multitasking capability in iOS 4 as
"horrible." "Apple releases only one new model a year, so the
new iPhone had better be pretty amazing to compete. It is," remarked The
Times’ Pogue, who praised the new display and "FaceTime" video
calling feature.


 

Related Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/technology/personaltech/23pogue.html

http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20100622/apple-iphone4-review
(WSJ)

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/iphone-4-review/

http://snipurl.com/xq9kn
(PC World)

Microsoft Debuts Entertainment Vertical on Bing Search Engine

By
Mark Hefflinger
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1

Los Angeles
– Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) has launched a new Entertainment vertical for its Bing search
engine, featuring music, gaming, movies and TV sub-categories. The music
section features links to the Zune service, which offers 5 million streaming
songs, as well as licensed lyrics. The games section links to more than 35,000
aggregated reviews, cheats and walkthroughs, and offers in-line play of casual
titles like "Bejeweled."


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/xq71m

http://snipurl.com/xq70t
(PaidContent)

http://www.bing.com/entertainment

Swedish Pro-Piracy Lobby Group Piratbyran Disbands

By
Mark Hefflinger
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0

Stockholm, Sweden – Piratbyran ("the bureau of
piracy"), a pro-piracy lobbying group formed in Sweden in 2003 that was responsible
for the launch of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, has officially disbanded,
TorrentFreak reports. "The discussions about file-sharing that Piratbyran
wanted to have, are already won," former Pirate Bay
spokesperson and Piratbyran member Peter Sunde told TorrentFreak. "The
projects that needed to start have already been finalized. Piratbyrån was a
temporary group for a temporary reason."


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/xq4gt
(TorrentFreak)

http://snipurl.com/xq5lp
(DMW previous coverage)

TuneCore Provides Distribution to Spotify Music Service

By
Mark Hefflinger
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3

Los Angeles
– TuneCore, a provider of digital distribution services for musical artists,
said on Wednesday that it has added streaming music service Spotify to its
offering. TuneCore and Spotify will host a co-branded landing page linked from
TuneCore to Spotify, which counts over 7 million users. TuneCore has in recent
months expanded its distribution service for artists to include Zune, Mog,
iLike, MySpace Music and Thumbplay.


 

Related Links:
http://www.spotify.com

http://www.tunecore.com/spotify

Video Publisher thePlatform Adds Support for Boxee, TiVo, Roku

By
Mark Hefflinger
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0

Seattle
– Online video publisher thePlatorm announced on Wednesday that it has added
support for Boxee, DivX, FlingoTV, Roku, TiVo, Vudu and Sybas Technologies’
Popbox device. The company said that it has enabled premium video management
and publishing to the devices, catering to the varying software and hardware
offerings by each.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/xq5s7

http://www.thePlatform.com

ShortForm.TV Debuts Online Video Platform

By
Mark Hefflinger
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0

Menlo Park,
Calif. – ShortForm.tv on Wednesday
launched its site that lets users watch curated channels of online video,
culled from sites including YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook. The Menlo
Park, Calif.-based company was founded in 2009 and is funded by
NetService Ventures Group and The Individuals’ Venture Fund.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/xq5uk

http://www.shortform.tv

Rdio Taps Music Reports for Rights Administration

By
Mark Hefflinger
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0

Woodland Hills,
Calif. – Music Reports, a
provider of music rights administration services, said on Wednesday that it
will provide its services to Rdio, the new online music service from the
creators of Skype and Kazaa.


 

Related Links:
http://www.musicreports.com

http://www.rdio.com

RGB Networks Acquires Mobile Video Firm RipCode

By
Mark Hefflinger
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1

Sunnyvale,
Calif. – RGB Networks, a provider
of network video processing services, announced on Wednesday that it has
acquired RipCode, a developer of mobile video technology.

Financial terms of
the deal were not disclosed.

"With the integration of RipCode’s mobile
delivery technology into our modular, high-density Video Multiprocessing
Gateway, RGB can offer a unified content delivery solution for TV, PCs and
mobile in a scalable, carrier-class platform," said RGB chief executive Jef
Graham.

"We are already seeing tremendous interest in our multi-function
VMG, and this bold move quickly takes our capabilities to the next level,
providing a unique solution that directly satisfies our customers’ requirements
for three screen delivery."

RGB said it will retain nearly all of
RipCode’s employees, who will continue to operate out of the company’s offices
in Austin, Texas.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/xq87d

http://www.ripcode.com/

http://www.rgbnetworks.com

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