http://www.socialblogroll.com/rss/ social blog roll http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/371206272/ Apple is continuing its push for global expansion of the iPhone. The latest country that will be getting the device looks to be Russia. Apple has agreed to a deal with Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), according to Reuters. Normally, an agreement between Apple and a carrier is reached then it takes a while for the country to ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/371201393/ Venture capital investment in India grew impressively during the second quarter of 2008. Between April and June, VCs invested a total of $238 million in 17 deals, up 120 percent from the $108 million invested during the same period last year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. That makes it the second-highest quarter in VentureSource’s records. The ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/371164888/ Yes we can. That may be what Republican Presidential candidate John McCain’s camp is saying right now about narrowing the race online that is completely dominated by Democratic candidate Barack Obama. To be clear: Obama is still far ahead of McCain in terms of online visibility, but it appears to be less lopsided. The reason? ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/371134572/ Zoho, a company that offers a growing variety of cheap and free online office applications, just launched Zoho Share, a service for sharing documents on the web or within your company. Now, all documents, presentations, spreadsheets and PDFs created using Zoho Apps can be viewed as an embeddable file, similar to Scribd or Docstoc. Those ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/371191532/ Web video platforms like Brightcove, Move Networks and Maven have a problem: They have all built business models targeting the handful of content companies willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year to push video on their sites. As a result, the platforms are angling for the same big fish in a relatively ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/371263413/ Baseball, while still America’s past time, is no longer it’s most popular sport. (That would be NFL football.) So it makes sense that the keepers of the game attempt to branch out as fully as possible to lure in new fans and inspire excitement in young people about playing the game again. As such, Major ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/370978154/ Turn, a Redwood City, Calif. ad network that recently took 15th place in a ComScore survey of the top networks by reach, has raised a $15 million third round of funding. The company is one of several that put the focus on the return on investment for advertisers, regardless of the site their ad is placed ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/371003199/ 12seconds has a goal: It wants to be the go-to platform for video status updates. In order to make a good platform, you need a good application programming interface (API). Today, 12seconds is launching that API and announcing its first three partners. TweetDeck, an Adobe Air client for services including Twitter, Blippr, a site that does ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/371280460/ Facebook is rolling out a way to comment on ads that appear within the site, according to an interview with Tim Kendall, Facebook’s director of monetization, by Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang. More generally, Facebook has increased the number of ad products that it’s experimenting with, as it works to make itself a multi-billion dollar ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/371280459/ In the wake of EDF Ventures‘ subpoena demanding information about one of its critics on controversial VC-rating site TheFunded, more scathing commentary about the Ann Arbor, Michigan firm has come to light. For example, the commenter targeted by EDF says the firm has “very harsh deal terms.” But does that criticism hold any water? Not ...]