Cequint Inc., a Seattle-based maker of Caller ID technology for mobile phones, has expanded a second round venture financing to a total of $7.1 million, The company’s application, called City ID, tells people which city and state a call is coming from within an area code.
RoundBox Inc., a Florham Park, N.J.-based provider of mobile broadcast software, has called down $12 million of a $20 million Series C round. “Mobile devices are becoming more powerful, pervasive and essential in the lives of billions worldwide. In addition, today’s mobile networks are becoming faster, cheaper and more efficient at sending information. New, innovative, […]
Charlotte technology company Yap Inc. has secured $6.5 million in financing.  Yap is a developer of a platform that converts speech into text. “It is increasingly clear that the fastest, easiest and safest way to interact with services on a mobile device is using your voice, and Yap makes this both possible and intuitive,” says […]
Ontela Inc., a San Diego-based maker of camera phone picture-saving technology, has raised around $10 million in Series B funding. Ontela provides technology infrastructure to wireless carriers that allows consumers to unlock the photos in their camera phones. Currently available on carrier networks including Cellular South, Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, and nTelos, PicDeck technology allows consumers […]
SkyFire Labs Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based developer of mobile Web browsers, has raised $13 million in Series B funding. The company, which was founded in April 2006, has been using the name DVC Labs and was in stealth mode until January when it launched its browser in beta. Skyfire said it’s raised $17.8 million […]
Mozes Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of a mobile service that allows users to create and share content, has raised $11.5 million in Series B funding. “Send and receive mobile messages to and from your favorite bands, social groups and friends.” “Mozes connects you to the things you love through your mobile phone and […]
Viigo Inc., the software company behind a revolutionary way to publish, discover and consume content on mobile devices, today announced RBC Venture Partners has made a $1.5 million follow-on investment to Viigo’s first round of venture capital funding. Viigo develops and markets one of the world’s most popular mobile content and services applications for smartphones. […]
Plusmo Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer of mobile widgets, has raised $4.41 million in Series A funding. “Plusmo is a FREE service that lets you run cool mobile widgets on your phone. Mobile widgets are tiny killer apps that offer a much better mobile experience for a specific purpose. There are over 20,000 widgets […]
FIX8, a division of Mobinex, Inc., a leader in virtual communications technology, today announced the company has secured an additional $2 million in Series A financing. FIX8’s premium content offerings include virtual communications technology that digitizes human expressions via webcam in real time. Users can animate live video on IM services including MSN, Yahoo, AIM […]
Gizmoz Inc. a social expression and user-generated media service, today announced that the company raised $6.5 million in Series B financing. Founded in 2003, Gizmoz offers consumers a new generation of character-based visual expression for use across their digital lives. The Gizmoz service makes it easy to create, customize, animate and share photorealistic 3D talking […]
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