App-maker Moonbot Gets ...
There’s been a lot of talk about the divide between Silicon Valley and Hollywood , but at least one upstart animation studio seems to have one foot comfortably in both worlds — Moonbot Studios , which was just nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short. The film in question,...Polar Mobile Raises $6 ...
Polar Mobile , a digital media platform provider that builds apps for some of the biggest media companies, today announced it has secured an additional $6 million in funding. The new round, led by growth equity firm Georgian Partners, joins more than $3 million invested in the company...
New RIM CEO: “I Don...
RIM’s new CEO Thorsten Heins has only been at the reigns for an evening, but he did a very “BlackBerry” job of presenting himself to the media this morning on his introductory media call. It felt a lot like the media calls of yore, with Balsillie and Lazaridis at the...Trion Grabs $85 Million...
Is there room for a big splash to be made at the “deep end” of online gaming? The newly public Zynga has been making waves with free online casual games, or the “shallow end,” dominating the Facebook platform, and relying on analytics and in-game purchases to...VC Investing Soars 22 P...
VCs poured significantly more money into deals in 2011, according to a recently released MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. Venture capitalists invested $28.4 billion in 3,673 deals in 2011, an...
Will Interactive iBooks...
With the shift from print books to digital books come a few nasty side effects. Sure, it’s much easier to acquire and read books when you don’t even have to get out of your chair, but those digital copies can be cracked and disseminated for free with only a little more...
Vibrant Media Boosts In...
You may not have heard of Vibrant Media , but you’ve almost certainly seen its product — specifically, the “in-text advertising” that pops up when you click on double-underlined words on certain websites. Well, Vibrant is expanding beyond text, and to that end, it has...
No, We Have Not Been Ha...
This is a public service announcement to all four of you that visited http://technews.techcrunch.com today and were confused by the jazzy Black Oak Asset Management splash page above; No we have not been hacked. And, no, this is not some kind of elaborate and arcane SOPA/PIPA protest ....
iPad Is The Least Probl...
FixYa , a product Q&A site, took a look at its own holiday stats to collect some facts about many major cell phones and tablets including iOS and Android devices. The conclusion? iPhone owners tend to be most interested in fixing battery and call quality problems on Android users...