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RockYou Picks Up $50 Million In Series D Round

Social games/apps company and ad platform RockYou secured $50 million from new investor Softbank in a Series D round, bringing the Redwood City-based outfit's total funding to $119 million since launching in late 2005. The...

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RockYou raises $50 million in venture funding

RockYou, one of the largest developers and ad networks built around Facebook’s platform, just raised $50 million in venture funding from Softbank. That brings RockYou’s total funding to $119 million from investors including...

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Updated: RockYou raises $50 million for in-game advertising, growth in Asia

RockYou , one of the largest developers and ad networks built around Facebook’s platform, just raised $50 million in venture funding from Softbank. That brings RockYou’s total funding to $119 million from investors including...

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Strong yen weighs on Japanese exporters

TOKYO, Nov 17 – Japan’s Nikkei stock average edged down 0.6 per cent on Tuesday, with exporters such as Sony Corp weighed by a strong yen and investors locking in profits in the face of long-term uncertainty about the economy....

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Femtocell-Aware Phone Application Supports Multiple Vendors' Femtocells / Intrinsyc smartphone...

LONDON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Airvana, Inc. , ip.access, and Ubiquisys, together with Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), today announced a demonstration of a femtocell-aware handset application...

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Femto Forum outlines state of femtocell market in new report

The Femto Forum, the independent industry association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, today published its first market status report which provides the latest information on operator deployments, the vendor...

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Will Android phone and iPhone succeed in Korea?

KT confirmed to launch Apple iPhone within this year. During delay with iPhone release in Korea, we are about to have Android phone at the same time through local mobile manufacturers like Samsung, LG and Pantech who need to...

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Mixi Top Page Showing Really Strange Ad

Japan’s largest social networking service Mixi is showing KDDI au(No. 2 cellphone carrier)’s new cellphone mail flat-rate plan commercial on its log-in page to 17 million users. Although Mixi is a membership service, as it is...

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iPhone 3G Is Still As Popular As 3GS in Japan

BCN’s cellphone sales ranking, which once was used to declare iPhone triumph in Japan, showed interesting status these weeks. Last week, iPhone 3G (8G) sales was ranked at the 3rd, whilst the latest 3GS (32G) ranked at the 4th....

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Softbank investment drives users from Chinese Web site

BEIJING (Kyodo) Chinese Internet forums are abuzz over an investment by Japanese investment company Softbank into a popular Chinese social networking site, state media reported Friday. After finding out about the venture, some...

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