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Spool Raises Funding to Help You Take the Web Offline

Liz Gannes in Social on January 4 at 5:00 am PT

Spool, which offers a nifty service for saving Web videos and articles for later viewing offline on mobile devices, has raised $1 million.

Zynga Competitor Crowdstar Raises First Round of Funding. Ever!

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 23, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

CrowdStar has become the fifth-largest social game maker on Facebook without raising a dime of venture capital. Now, as it expands to mobile and moves internationally, it’s raised its first round of $23 million.

Spot Runner's CEO Nick Grouf Speaks!

Kara Swisher in News on July 31, 2008 at 10:05 am PT

On one of my many trips to Los Angeles (what can I say? I like to hang where LoRo* hangs), I dropped in to see Nick Grouf of Spot Runner. As many might know, Spot Runner is an online-offline ad agency play that has gotten big funding and even bigger hype of late. Usually, BoomTown runs screaming from such Web 2.0 dandies, but there is definitely some there there at Spot Runner.