Redbeacon Raises $7.4 Million To Help You Book Local Services Online

Redbeacon , which won the TechCrunch50 launch conference in 2009, has raised a $7.4 million round of financing. The round was led by Mayfield Fund and Venrock . Raj Kapoor , Managing Director at Mayfield, and Brian Ascher , General Partner at Venrock, will join the company’s board of directors.

The Rubicon Project Buys Malware Security Company SiteScout

Los Angeles-based digital advertising company The Rubicon Project this morning announced that it has acquired SiteScout , a four-year-old security technology company based in Seattle. SiteScout essentially helps online publishers protect their Web sites from malicious advertising (malvertising), and The Rubicon Project can use their technology to ramp up the security layer of its REVV for publishers platform

Fabulis Launches Social Network For Gay Men – Built On Top Of Facebook

Today sees the public beta launch of Fabulis , a fresh community and lifestyle (and explicitly not dating) website for homosexual men. We’ve covered the company before – and not its product, unfortunately – when Citibank got itself in a PR firestorm after abruptly freezing the startup’s bank account over allegedly posting – inexistent – “objectionable content” on its blog (the institution later changed its Internet Business Policy because of the incident). Starting today, the website is free to sign up for everyone, so we took a look.

Former AOL, Experian Executives Join Rubicon Project

Digital advertising company Rubicon Project has landed a pair of Internet marketing vets in an effort to broaden its management team with experienced executives. The LA-based company has hired Ben Trenda , formerly VP of Global Partnerships at AOL , as Vice President of U.S

Win A Mentoring Session With Founders Of Digg, Flickr, Mint, Ning, Slide Or Zynga

Are you a budding Web entrepreneur who would like some pointers or advice from seasoned company founders? MayField Fund and First Round Capital are sponsoring a raffle to give away mentoring sessions with the founders of Digg ( Jay Adelson ), Flickr ( Caterina Fake ), Mint ( Aaron Patzer ), Ning (G ina Bianchini ), Slide ( Max Levchin ), and Zynga ( Mark Pincus ). The raffle will take place at a private event in Silicon Valley with space for 100 attendees on March 1

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