San Francisco – MindJolt, a cross-platform game developer
and publisher, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired social mobile game
developer SGN and Hallpass Media, a free online games network.

Financial terms
of the transactions were not disclosed.

San Francisco-based MindJolt was
acquired in March 2010 by MySpace co-founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe,
along with several other members of the MySpace team, in partnership with
Austin Ventures.

MindJolt said SGN counts more than 30 million downloads of its
mobile games, while Hallpass adds over four million gamers and some 1,500 new
game titles to the MindJolt platform.

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http://www.mindjolt.com

San Francisco – Ticketfly, the provider of a
"social" online ticketing service, announced on Tuesday that it has
raised $12 million in its second round of funding, led by Mohr Davidow
Ventures.

Previous backers High Peaks Venture Partners, Contour Venture
Partners and angel investors Roger Ehrenberg and Howard Lindzon also
participated in the round.

San Francisco-based Ticketfly provides ticketing,
social marketing, website management and mobile tools to live entertainment
venues and promoters.

Clients include Austin City Limits Live, Knitting Factory
Entertainment, D.C.’s 9:30 Club and Los Angeles’ Troubadour.

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http://www.ticketfly.com

New York – Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) has restored live streaming of
channels owned by News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) Fox and Discovery (NASD: DISCA) to its ‘TV Everywhere’ iPad
application. Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) channels are still absent from the service; TWC has asked
a court to declare it needs no additional licenses or permissions to stream
programming to an iPad. PaidContent received a "no comment" from Fox,
when it asked whether any deal had been struck to restore iPad streaming of its
networks.

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(PaidContent)

Los Angeles – IAC’s (NASD: IACI) Match.com dating service has announced
that it will begin screening members against the national sex offender
registry, after a woman filed suit against the site following an alleged
assault by a sex offender she met on the site, the Associated Press reported.
Match.com spokesman Matthew Traub told AP the decision to begin screening for
sex offenders was not a direct result of the suit, but acknowledged the
incident accelerated the company’s move.

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(AP)

http://www.match.com

Los Angeles – Twelve U.S. cable TV providers and ten
Hollywood movie studios are investing $10 million in a new, national integrated
marketing campaign to promote Movies On Demand on cable TV. The year-long
campaign will highlight titles made available via VOD on the same day as DVD,
and 28 days before most other rental options.

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San Francisco – The Winklevoss twins have appealed the
dismissal of their lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, over the
terms of a settlement they were paid related to charges Zuckerberg stole their
idea to build a social network, Wired.com reports.

The Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled last week essentially that the Winklevosses should be content with the $65
million they received in the settlement.

For their part, the twins contended
that Facebook fraudulently omitted relevant information about the company’s stock
price at the time of the original settlement, and are seeking additional shares
in the company.

They have now filed an appeal for an en banc hearing before the
entire panel of judges from the Ninth Circuit; a three-judge panel delivered
the ruling last week.

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(Wired)

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(DMW previous coverage)

Cupertino, Calif. – Apple (NASD: AAPL) has filed patent claims against
Korea’s Samsung, alleging the company’s Galaxy line of smartphones and tablet
computers infringe on its iPhone and iPad, All Things D reports.

"It’s no
coincidence that Samsung’s latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad,
from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the
packaging," an Apple spokesperson told All Things D.

"This kind of
blatant copying is wrong, and we need to protect Apple’s intellectual property when
companies steal our ideas."

Apple is seeking an injunction against
distribution of Samsung’s Galaxy products, in addition to unspecified damages,
and a finding that Samsung "willfully" infringed its patents, which
can bring heftier penalties.

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(All Things D)