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June 25, 2010  | | Connecting People & Knowledge Since May 2000 | | | | | April 29, 2010 · Today's Sponsor: | | |  | Top Stories New York - Apple may seek as much as $1 million from advertisers looking to utilize its new iAd format for the iPhone, and $10 million from those wishing to be launch partners for the format, The Wall Street Journal reported. [more..] Cupertino, Calif. - Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Thursday published an open letter explaining why the company won't be allowing Adobe's Flash platform to run on its iPhone and other mobile devices. [more..] Santa Monica, Calif. - Video game publisher Activision, a unit of Vivendi, announced on Thursday a ten-year worldwide partnership with Bungie, the Kirkland, Wash.-based studio behind games including "Halo" and "Myth." [more..] Reston, Va. - ComScore, the provider of Internet audience measurement services, has filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that will allow the company to sell up to $100 million in stock, notes or warrants. [more..] Washington - Only six weeks after announcing its second round of funding, DC-based LivingSocial, the developer a new social commerce service as well as several popular social networking tools, said on Thursday that it has raised another $14 million in its third round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. [more..] San Francisco - Delivery Agent, a provider of e-commerce services for major entertainment properties, said on Thursday that it has acquired Hollywood-based Billion Dollar Babes, which produces multi-designer "insiders" sales events and in cities worldwide and on the Web. [more..] New York - Mojiva, a mobile ad network and analytics platform, has raised $7 million in its second round of funding, led by UV Partners. [more..] Wellesley, Mass. - Thinking Screen Media, a firm that delivers content to Internet-connected screens like digital picture frames, announced on Thursday that it has raised $2 million in new funding from digital signage platform provider Scala. [more..]
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Briefly Noted Mountain View, Calif. - Skyfire, a developer of mobile Web browser software, on Thursday released Skyfire 2.0 for Android, which it says is the first Flash video-enabled browser for the Android platform. [more..] San Francisco - Despite reports to the contrary, neither Google's YouTube nor record label Universal Music Group removed a controversial new music video from artist M.I.A. from YouTube, where it remains visible behind an age-restriction firewall but is not accessible via search, Wired.com reported. [more..] London - Yahoo has secured the exclusive online broadcast rights to English Premier League football match highlights for the next three seasons, The Register reported. [more..] New York - Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" featured a segment on Wednesday night taking Apple to task for its role in the search of Gizmodo reporter Jason Chen's home by police. [more..] Extras Job/Event/Marketplace Classifieds - Gannett Digital - McLean - VMIX MEDIA INC - San Diego, CA - Socialcast - San Francisco, CA - Zynga - San Francisco - Synacor - Buffalo, NY - Live365 - Foster City - Amazon.com - Seattle, WA
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