Twitter While You Watch TV? Bluefin Labs Is Watching.

And the marketing start-up has just raised another $12 million. Think about that the next time you fire off a comment during an NFL game.
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The “Mad Men” Years Are Giving Way to the “Math Men” Era

I love the “Mad Men” version of the ad business. The storytelling. The simplicity. The glasses of scotch at 10 am. But these days in digital, it feels like the Math Men media buyers (with their terabytes of data) are taking over for the Mad Men creatives.

Adobe Adds Another $400 Million to Its Ad Business Shopping Spree

Last month, Adobe said it was buying search marketing firm Efficient Frontier, but didn’t disclose a purchase price. Yesterday, it came clean.
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First Class Ticket: Social Travel Start-Up Gogobot Raises $15M in Funding at $70M Valuation

Around the world in $15 million.
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Meet Qwilt, Creator of Smart Video-Caching Gear, and New Member of the Flash Madness Club

Coming out of stealth today with $24 million from Redpoint Ventures, Accel and other investors, Qwilt stores copies of the videos that are popular in your neighborhood to help make the network run faster. And? It uses flash memory to do it! Flash Madness continues.
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What Bad Economy? Three Big Silicon Valley VCs Poised to Haul in $2B in New Fund Raising.

Despite the bad economy, turbulent markets and lackluster venture returns of late, limited partners looking for an investment edge seem to still be adding more dough to the VC kitty.
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CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? No Matter What You Call It, It’s Business as Usual in Silicon Valley.

It’s a giant, filthy mud puddle of conflicts of interest in Silicon Valley, but everybody’s in the cesspool, it seems.
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Exclusive: Hadoop Companies Multiply as MapR Lands $20M in Funding

When there are big data jobs to be done, chances are a version of the open source data analysis platform Hadoop is involved. MapR is the latest company to try to make a profit helping other companies get the most out of it.
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Flash Madness Part 3: Pure Storage Comes Out of Stealth

The summer that flash memory began to transform the data center continues as Pure Storage unleashes an all-flash storage array.
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Kabam Raises $85 Million to Build the Zynga of Hardcore Gaming

Redwood City, Calif.-based Kabam has quietly been building a sizable social game company only miles away from industry leader Zynga.
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Posterous Goes Bare: Shows Us All Its Stats

Scribd Raises $13M More for Web Docs

Password Manager LastPass Acquires Xmarks