Education.com Holdings, a web site providing information — mostly for parents — on various education and child-raising topics (from bullying to financing college tuition), has raised $5.3 million toward a target of $10 million in second-round preferred stock, reports VentureWire. Last year, the Redwood City, Calif. company snagged $9.75 million in a second round of venture funding from Azure Capital Partners, California Technology Ventures and Telesoft Partners. Full story...
On this morning’s earnings call for Warner Music, CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr said that the company’s $1.
Known for its international relief efforts, rock band U2 is now raising funds in Turkey to pay for the country’s Dora-1 geothermal plant.
Google Buzz, the social sharing tool that Google just announced at a press event in Mountain View, isn’t just for the fun.
Google announced the previously rumored social networking features in Gmail today with a new product called Google Buzz.
Gomez is a division of Compuware that does website performance measurement for businesses. Like me, they like to hammer the point that a slow site loses a lot of business.
Advanced Micro Devices showed off the progress it has made designing a chip that combines graphics and a processor in a single chip.
Shortly after announcing a $10 million fourth round of financing and alluding to a new product launch, Yodle, a company that helps businesses advertise online, today launched Yodle Organic, a new product to help local businesses increase web traffic and search engine optimization (SEO).
SpeedBit, the folks behind Video Accelerator and Download Accelerator, is developing another service centered around web video.
Nvidia is launching its Optimus technology today in an effort to match your laptop’s graphics horsepower to fit a given application.
Fresh off the success of Mass Effect 2, Electronic Arts is launching one of its big bets on a brand new video game as it debuts Dante’s Inferno.