3Crowd Lands $6.62 Million for Multiple CDN Management

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Mark Hefflinger
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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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Mark Hefflinger
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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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Mark Hefflinger
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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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Mark Hefflinger
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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.


 

Related Links:
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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Mark Hefflinger
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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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Mark Hefflinger
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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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Mark Hefflinger
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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://snipurl.com/vfu8o

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

MySpace, PRS for Music Ink Promotional Partnership

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Mark Hefflinger
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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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Mark Hefflinger
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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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http://www.respawn.com

Microsoft "Pink" Project to Include KIN Mobile Phone

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Mark Hefflinger
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San Francisco – Microsoft (NASD: MSFT)
provided some additional details about its mobile project codenamed
"Pink" at a press event at a night club in San Francisco on Monday, PaidContent
reported.

The mobile device to come out of the project, which is based on the
Sidekick from Danger — which Microsoft acquired two years ago — is the KIN, a series of two
slider phones made by Sharp that will be distributed by Verizon and Vodafone.

The KIN is targeted at the teen and young adult demographic, and will come
loaded with Zune music services.

"We saw how you talk, text, tweet and
post in real life. Then we designed KIN to communicate as naturally as you. So
KIN is everything you love, everyone you love, all together, in one
place," reads the marketing messaging on the KIN website.

 

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http://snipurl.com/vfpay
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http://kin.com

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