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Mobile Streaming Service Buzzwire Gets $8 Million Second Round Funding

By Rafat Ali - Wed 05 Dec 2007 12:42 AM PST

Buzzwire, the mobile audio and video streaming provider based in Bedford, MA and Denver, has received $8 million in second round of funding. The round was led by new investor Sequel Venture Partners, and also included existing investors Matrix Partners and Spark Capital. Buzzwire will use the new round to move from planning and testing to deployments with carriers in the U.S. and overseas, it said. The service has content from radio stations such as NPR and video and audio podcasts from sites like Slate, and TV features like the NBC Nightly News. More about the company’s service in our previous post on it.

Posted in: Entertainment, Mobile Music, Mobile Video, Money, VC M&A

Tags: matrix partners, spark capital, buzzwire,

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2 Responses:
  • From Andrew Deal Thu 06 Dec 2007 11:17 AM

    Of course I am biased, and even a bit jealous, but I don’t see this company having any real licensing deals… they, like other competitors of ours, are just grabbing podcasts and repurposing them… and in a way that makes it a hassle for the end user.

  • From Rich Thu 06 Dec 2007 10:42 PM

    Doesn’t NPR have their own mobile mobile wap site with audio streaming http://m.npr.org? I wonder what their angle is…

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