Trade Publisher TechTarget Acquires BeyeNetwork

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Newton, Mass. – Technology media company TechTarget
announced on Tuesday that it has acquired BeyeNetwork, a group of technology
sites that provide news, expert information and resources on the business
information on business intelligence best practices, business analytics, data
integration, and data governance.

BeyeNetwork has an audience of 168,000
business intelligence and data management professionals, according to Newton,
Mass.-based TechTarget.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

 

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http://www.beyeresearch.com/news/13198

http://www.techtarget.com

3Crowd Lands $6.62 Million for Multiple CDN Management

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San Mateo,
Calif.
– 3Crowd Technologies, a
provider of content delivery network management tools, announced on Tuesday
that it has raised $6.62 million in its first round of funding, from Canaan Partners
and Storm Ventures.

San Mateo, Calif.-based
3Crowd offers management tools that let companies control content delivery
networks and other cloud services, enabling them to use multiple services at
once.

The company’s CEO is Barrett Lyon, co-founder of BitGravity.

 

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Photo-hosting Service TweetPhoto Raises $2.6 Million

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San Diego
– TweetPhoto, the provider of a photo-hosting and sharing service, announced on
Tuesday that it has raised $2.6 million in its first round of financing, led by
Canaan Partners.

Anthem Venture Partners and angel investors also participated
in the round, proceeds from which will used for further product development and
developer relations.

San Diego-based TweetPhoto lets users upload photos and
then share them on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and other social media sites,
with added features like commenting, voting, geo-tagging and location-based
search.

The year-old company said it is processing 40 million API requests per
day and 250 million images each month.

 

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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/04/prweb3867194.htm

http://tweetphoto.com

Best Buy to Sell Barnes & Noble Nook E-book Reader

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New York
– Bookseller Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced on Monday a deal with electronics
retail store chain Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), which will carry its Nook e-book reader and
accessories in is stores, and also offer the free BN eReader software. The Nook
will begin selling at Best Buy stores on April 18 with a price tag of $259.


 

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http://www.bestbuy.com

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/

Sharp to Begin Selling 3D Televisions

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Tokyo
– Japanese electronics maker Sharp has announced plans to begin selling
3D-capable televisions, joining rivals Samsung and Panasonic in the nascent
market for the emerging technology, the Associated Press reported. Sharp will
begin selling the sets in Japan
this summer, and some time before the end of the first quarter of 2011 in the U.S., Europe and China.


 

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100412/ap_on_hi_te/as_japan3d_display

Yahoo, Reveille Partner on Daily Webisode News Show

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Sunnyvale,
Calif.
– Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) and production
company Reveille on Monday debuted a new original, daily news Web series,
"Who Knew?" The series features "easy-to-digest commentaries on
current events" in 90-second webisodes, based on the most-clicked news
story of the day on Yahoo News. The companies said the series was designed
collaboratively with Toyota,
which is sponsoring it for the launch of its redesigned Avalon.


 

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http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com

MTV, Electus Team on "Pedro & Maria" Interactive Telenovela

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New York
Digital entertainment studio Electus, a unit of IAC (NASD: IACI), and Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) MTV on
Monday announced a partnership to develop an interactive telenovela, with executive
producers to include "Ugly Betty" actress America Ferrera and her
production company, Take Fountain. Developed for both television and the Web,
"Pedro & Maria" will partner and utilize Facebook, Twitter and
other social media sites in both English and Spanish. Procter & Gamble
Productions will also create original commercials and branded entertainment
opportunities for its products.


 

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http://www.iac.com/Our-Businesses/Electus

Netflix Switches On Nintendo Wii Streaming

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Los Gatos,
Calif.
– Netflix (NASD: NFLX) said on Monday
that subscribers do the DVD rental service can now download thousands of movies
and TV episodes through their Nintendo Wii game consoles. The two companies
first announced partnership plans in January, and now have officially launched
the service. Streaming is provided at no additional cost to Netflix members who
have a plan starting at $8.99 a month, a Wii console and a broadband Internet
connection.


 

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http://www.netflix.com/NRD/Wii

MySpace, PRS for Music Ink Promotional Partnership

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London – U.K. performing
rights organization PRS for Music on Monday announced a marketing partnership
with News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace online social network. Under the terms, MySpace will
promote PRS for Music’s services to the one million U.K. bands with MySpace profiles,
while PRS for Music will promote MySpace as a promotional tool to its 65,000
members.


 

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"Call of Duty" Developers Form Respawn Entertainment

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Los Angeles
– The creators of the multi-billion dollar "Call of Duty" game
franchise, Jason West and Vince Zampella, announced on Monday the formation of
a new game development studio, Respawn Entertainment. The pair, who also
co-founded development studio Infinity Ward, also said they signed a publishing
and distribution deal with Electronic Arts (NASD:  ERTS) for Respawn. The Call of Duty franchise has to date been published by Activision (NASD: ATVI).

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