Last year, about this time, some bloggers posted the question: “could the cloud replace iTunes?”  What they wanted to know, really, was what it would take to play streaming music on Apple’s popular platforms like …

Brightkite, a location based social network service, which has been gaining a decent amount of momentum recently, has merged with Limbo.  Limbo is a Silicon Valley startup that enables its users to enter games, and …

Looking for a website that distributes virtual boomerangs? Or maybe an online print shop whipping up snappy Paul Hogan T-shirts with quips like, “Co-ed Naked Crocodile Hunting?”
Australia is launching a national small biz incubator of …

Owned by One True Media, SpotMixer is a DIY video advertisement producer aimed towards small and home-based businesses who want a professional-looking video ad without the money or loss of control these traditionally require.
The service …

At the very least, this site has a great tagline. For those who don’t know, a “koofer” is a piece of historical data that can be used to help someone in class, exams, or …

Many of you might have not heard about Chegg.com before.  Chegg, located in Santa Clara, California is a startup that enables its users to rent textbooks for the semester instead of having to buy them.  …

Multiply.com, the world’s fifth largest social networking site and home of the “family-friendly networking” has partnered with ABS-CBN, Lifetime’s “The Balancing Act,” and received $5 million in funding from ABS-CBN. These partnerships promise several …

Angie has another round of funding to add to their list.  Angieslist a privately held company out of Indianapolis, just raised $7 million, which comes on top of the $18 million they raised in venture …

Rackspace Hosting the world’s leading hosting services provider, today unveiled its cloud hosting strategy which extends the company’s technology and service leadership to cloud hosting.
In support of its new cloud hosting strategy, the company announced …

Matt Mullenweg, of Automattic announced today that they have acquired Silgo, Ireland based PollDaddy.  Automattic as many of you know owns WordPress.  PollDaddy distributes embeddable polls and survey widgets on sites like Wordpress, and is …

Today, in an all stock transaction, AdEngage was aquired by Technorati.  AdEngage, which is a Los Angeles based advertising company, has only 12 employees.  Technorati, which is based in San Francisco makes the purchase following …

JS-Kit, an application company and blog enhancer has raised $3.6 Million in a Series B round of funding.  The funding was led by Altos Ventures.  Prior to this round, JS-Kit raised $1.2 Million in August …