Tuesday, January 10, 2012Fisker Automotive Quietly Adds $110M in FundingAnaheim-based Fisker Automotive has just added another, $110M in its Series D-1 financing, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week, taking its total raised to somewhere North of $876M. The electric auto company has not detailed the newest investment in the firm, which is a part of an ongoing fundraising effort by the company. The filing indicates the total amount of capital targeted in the round is $300M; the firm had earlier raised around $133M as part of the same round. Fisker i (More info...)
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RightScale Links With Korean ISPSanta Barbara-based RightScale, the developer of cloud computing management software, said Tuesday that it has linked with a Korean company to distribute its products in Korea. RightScale said that the Korean Internet Neutral eXchange (KINX) will resell its software for managing public, private, and hybrid clouds. The new distributor is part of an Asia Pacific expansion for the company, which now has offices in Japan and Singapore, plus a number of other resellers in the region. RightScale is ve (More info...)
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BetterWorks Adds CateringLos Angeles-based BetterWorks, the employee perks and benefits firm headed by Paige Craig, has expanded its platform again today, saying that it is now handling in-office catering through its system. BetterWorks, which is applying technology and software to help small and medium sized business manage employee "perks", said that the new catering support easily handles large food orders for companies. One of BetterWorks existing features was already handling to-go and delivery orders for employees (More info...)
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Phorus Launches Wireless Home Audio SpeakerLos Angeles-based Phorus, the startup headed by former PhatNoise founder Dannie Lau, has unveiled its first products at CES, a new, wireless audio streaming speaker which ties directly into Android devices. Phorus said its PlayCast product connects to Android phones or tablets, and allows users to stream lossless audio-quality music over Wi-Fi. The new product--aiming at the popularity of similar systems from Sonos--can be linked together to stream audio to multiple rooms. The linked devices als (More info...)
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MySpace, Panasonic Unveil Social TV ServiceSocial entertainment site Myspace, which is now owned by Irvine-based Specific Media, is making a big push this week at CES, and launched a new, social TV service with Panasonic Monday. In a launch event which featured Justin Timberlake, Panasonic and Myspace said they are launching a new service called MySpace TV, which allows television viewers to discover, share, and comment on television programs. The service--which takes advantage of Myspace's library of music videos and songs--runs on Pana (More info...)
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RingRevenue Signs Mobile Ad Network TapjoySanta Barbara-based RingRevenue, the provider of pay-per-call marketing technology, said today that it has partnered with mobile ad network firm Tapjoy. The two said they partnership will deliver advertisers with more customers through inbound calls. Financial details of the partnership were not announced. RingRevenue's technology helps track the source of inbound calls from affiliate networks. Tapjoy is backed by J.P.Morgan Asset Management, Rho Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, InterWes (More info...)
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VIZIO Announces New Google TV DeviceIrvine-based VIZIO and Google said today that they have tied together to launch a new product which incorporates Google TV and provides streaming Internet video to any HDTV. The new Vizio Stream Player, among a number of product launches by Vizio today at CES, allows users to access Internet content and services via special apps, including access to the Google TV service. The two said the Stream Player incorporates the Google Chrome browser, Google's TV browsing and search functionality, and con (More info...)
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Broadcom, Qualcomm Link On HomePlug NetworkingAmong the announcements today at CES, Qualcomm Atheros and Broadcom announced today that they have been conducting joint performance testing between Qualcomm Atheros and Broadcom chipsets supporting the HomePlug AV networking standard. HomePlug AV allows consumers to use their home power connections for interconnecting home entertainment devices. The two said that they are endorsing HomePlug AV as the best powerline technology for carriers and consumer networking OEMs, for such purposes as strea (More info...)
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Morphlabs Signs Colocation FirmManhattan Beach-based Morphlabs, the developer of cloud deployment products, announced this morning that it has partnered with Telx, a colocation and interconnection provider, to enable a hosted private cloud product. Financial details of the win were not disclosed. Morphlabs' products are used by data center and hosting providers to deploy and manage cloud computing instances. The firm is the latest company run by open source serial entrepreneur Winston Damarillo. Morph's cloud computing tools (More info...)
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