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San Francisco-based social-gaming company, Zynga is seeking to raise about $250 million in new funding. Zynga has already raised $360 million from a range of venture capital and other investment firms. The company is in talks with at least one bank about raising financing as well as mutual funds and...

The California-based, music streaming and recommendation service, Pandora Media is seeking to raise about $100 million in an IPO (initial public offering). Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, William Blair and Stifel Nicolaus Weisel will handle the IPO. In the first nine months of 2010, Pandora generated $90.1m (£56m) in revenues but...

Loop Mobile With over 3 million GSM subscribers in Mumbai circle, formerly known as BPL Mobile, has announced the launch of a free Email to SMS service, and also video content priced at Rs. 0.10 per video. The push based email to SMS service, interestingly, tries to tie their subscribers...

The EESC calls on the European Commission and the other EU decision makers to introduce a simplified, results-oriented, future cohesion policy for the period 2013-2020. Genuine, flexible partnership with local authorities, social partners and other civil society organisations can only engage citizens and make cohesion policy more efficient and geared...

Create your app for Ovi Store in minutes- Now anyone can create an app for Ovi Store in just a few minutes. It's fast. It's easy. And it's free. No programming skills are required and it's open to all individuals and businesses, with no registration fees. After you've created your...

The desire to contain costs rose revenues for creator of iNum, International VoIP origination services provider Voxbone, a 38 percent increase from 2009. Network traffic climbed significantly and customers indicated high levels of satisfaction. The number of minutes of use for inbound traffic increased by 40 percent to 2.1 billion...

CauseVox, a web startup based in New York City, announced today the launch of its fully customizable crowd-funding platform for nonprofits. The platform, in beta, offers easy to use and manage charity-branded fundraising pages. CauseVox helps nonprofits raise more money and create more awareness through a donation webpage creator that...

The Indianapolis-based nonprofit DirectEmployers Association launched massive network of employment Web sites this week, and by the end of the month will have 40,000 worldwide. The 40,000 sites, with Web addresses that all end in ".jobs," have the potential to upend jobs classifieds online companies such as Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com....

The search giant Google (GOOG) tried to buy GroupOn for $6bn and GroupOn said "NO NADA" and  GOOGLE couldn't buy Groupon = GOOGEL OFFERS Google is preparing to launch a very own Groupon-like service, Google Offers, that will notify subscribers about deals in their area. The service will send one...

Mozilla has slapped down Skype's official Firefox plug-in for causing untold amounts of browser crashes and page slowdownsand is officially adding the toolbar to Firefox's blocklist. According to the Mozilla Blog, the toolbar is causing “browser crashes and it slows down certain processes by up to 300 times.” The Skype...