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Commercial Drone Platform Company Gets $10.7 Million From Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures
Is hardware the new software?
Yahoo’s Mayer Has Met with Hulu Execs in a Preliminary Look-See at Premium Video Unit
How much is the Silicon Valley Internet giant willing to spend on turbocharging its video prospects?
Content Gains Allow Demand Media to Beat Wall Street Expectations on Q1 Earnings and Revenue
Strong performance of media properties added to the results.
The Money Shot: Kara Swisher on Instagram’s Billion-Dollar Ride in Vanity Fair
There’s no picture of the moment when everything changed for Kevin Systrom.
Video Shopping Startup Joyus Raises $11.5M in Second Round, Focuses on ROI of Online Retail
Do online retailers need to make it count for merchants?
Former Groupon President and COO Solomon Joins Accel Partners
Every time a bell rings, a VC gets its wings.
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Predictive Data Startup Infer Raises $10M From Redpoint
Infer, a Palo Alto, Calif., startup that makes data-focused business apps to help companies target their best potential customers, said it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding led by Redpoint Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz, Social+Capital Partnership, Sutter Hill Ventures and angel investors also participated in the round. Infer, which is profitable, mines a range of data to determine those with the highest propensity to buy. Along with the funding for its “predictive customer scoring model,” Satish Dharmaraj of Redpoint Ventures will join the company’s board.News Byte
Talenthouse Brings in Nokia, Adidas and Coca-Cola to Sponsor Engagement Platform
Los Angeles-based Talenthouse, a global creative collaboration community with two million members, said that it was launching an “engagement” platform with Adidas’s eyewear, Coca-Cola’s Vitaminwater and Nokia to allow its members to be paired with the mega-brands and be sponsored by them. Talenthouse said that artists will get paid based on engagements that their project and their content generates for those brands, which will be able to “integrate their message directly into the artists’ projects & portfolios and become part of all peer to peer social media conversation.”Circa’s Matt Galligan on Building a Different Kind of News Reader (Video)
Mobile news apps are hot. Summly just sold for a ridonkulous amount of money, for example. So what’s up with the “atomic bits” list-makers of the San Francisco?