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CNET co-founder’s Whiskey Media raises $2.5M

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Whiskey Media, a company that has built websites around topics like comic books and computer games, has raised $2.5 million in funding.
The Sausalito, Calif. company was created by Shelby Bonnie, who previously co-founded online news network CNET. Whiskey Media sites are a mix of directories and online communities, and include ComicVine, AnimeVice, and GiantBomb [...]

Cloud storage app ZumoDrive gets $1.5M infusion

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Online file storage startup Zecter, maker of ZumoDrive, has secured a $1.5 million round of lending.
ZumoDrive’s trick is to take a cloud-based storage system and present it as local hardware memory to iPhones and other gadgets. That way, customers’ data is automatically stored and backed up in an online location that will still [...]

Mobile personal assistant Pageonce raises $6.5M

Pageonce, a mobile “personal assistant” that helps users manage all their online accounts with a single smartphone application, has raised $6.5 million in its first round of institutional funding. It also announced that it now has 1 million registered users in the United States.
I talked to Jim Scheinman, the Palo Alto, Calif. company’s new chief [...]

Mobile ad company Smaato raises $4.5M (via postie)

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Smaato, a company that helps mobile publishers optimize their mobile ads, has raised $4.5 million in a second round of funding.
The company isn’t a  mobile ad network, but rather allows publishers to pull the most valuable ads for their websites and apps from multiple networks. Chief executive and co-founder Ragnar Kruse said Smaato [...]

EVO Media Group raises $1.5M to help you build a moneymaking website

The EVO Media Group, which runs the DevHub.com service, says it’s making headway in the website-building market by adding a crucial ingredient — money. And the Seattle startup just raised $1.5 million in new funding.
Like Weebly, Yola, and others, DevHub makes it easy to build a website by just dragging and dropping the elements into [...]

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