Yes, that’s right. Hide yo wife, hold your Tweets, stop your emails, and don’t even think about opening a Skype chat, because we are proud to announce that the third batch of tickets for the 2010 Crunchies Awards are on sale now. Right now

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More Crunchies Tix, Get ‘Em While They’re Hot! Plus, a Special Musical Guest Announcement!

Given how popular YouTube is on the web, it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that a lot of people also enjoy watching video clips from their phones. And, given the surge in Android, iPhone, and iPad sales, that adds up to a lot of videos

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YouTube Mobile Traffic Tripled In 2010, Android App Gets Music Videos (And Ads)

TargetSpot , which operates a large digital audio advertising network , this morning announced that it has secured $8 million in equity financing from Union Square Ventures , Bain Capital Ventures , CBS Radio and Milestone Venture Partners .

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Digital Audio Advertising Company TargetSpot Lands $8 Million

If you’ve got an iPhone or Android device, there’s a decent chance you’re familiar with Bump , the nifty service that lets you swap contact information (and other data) by simply tapping two phones together. The service has been around since 2009, and now has 7 million active users across 25 million total installs on Android and iOS devices. And today Bump has some big news: it’s just raised $16 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sequoia, Sherpalo (Ram Shriram), and SV Angel (Ron Conway).

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Bump Raises $16 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz

I’ve always been a big advocate of storing things in the cloud. Not just emails and files, but my entire life.

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Why I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud

If you want to crowdsource the funding for a project—whether it is a product, album, or a film—one of the best places to find both patrons and early customers is Kickstarter . In this week’s episode of Startup Sherpa , host Chris Dixon dives deep into the crowdsourced-funding phenomenon with Kickstarter founder Perry Chen. The majority of projects on Kickstarter are creative ones involving film, art, or music

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Startup Sherpa (Kickstarter): Going Direct To The Audience For Crowdsourced Funding

Khush, a startup that develops music applications, has raised a new round of funding from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups , angel investor Yee Lee , and Georgia Tech ATDC VentureLab. The startup declined to reveal how much money was raised in the round.

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Khush Lands Funding To Help Wannabe Singers Create Music On The Go

It took a bit longer than we thought, but the inevitable has happened: blueTunes is calling it quits . A message posted on the website reads: We have decided to pursue other opportunities and will be shutting down our service on January 31, 2011. Thanks for supporting us and for all you’ve done.

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Your Music In The Cloud No More – blueTunes Keels Over, Dies

Good news for Europeans and those U.S. users (perhaps as many as 30,000 ) of music streaming service Spotify . In a similar deal to the one signed last year with Sonos , users will soon be able to listen to streaming Spotify music through their Logitech devices

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Spotify Ties Up With Logitech

Bach Technology

A proposed file format called MusicDNA will allow content owners to ship up to 32GB of information, such as album cover art, song lyrics, and even up-to-the minute blog posts and concert listings, alongside a music file. If enough content owners and distributors sign on, it could become an alternative to the MP3, giving users a more album-like digital playback experience, and allowing artists and content owners to charge more money per download. (more…)