Goojet gets €6M to further accelerate its development

Check out this cool Goojet clip from a popular Bollywood movie ;-) ... (Thank you Bombay TV)

Have you tried the new Goojet ....

Goojet is

• The new open space where the web and mobile worlds converge
• A space inhabited by heterogeneous services (information, communication, social networking, e-business transactions, etc.), tuned to individual users and open to contributions from different sources.
  
• A place where users easily create their mobile world: they select and customize the services they need and organize their space to their personal taste;
• A place where they can create their own services for their private usage or for promotion to the community.
  

Goom Radio Raises $16M First Round For Broadcast Service

Battles between streaming-music sites and the labels over royalties have scared off some internet radio startups, but not all. One that is persevering is Goom Radio, which has raised over $16 million in first-round funding, to bring its mix of professional and user-gen playlists stateside. The New York company launched a version of its service in France last fall. Backers include Wellington Partners Venture Capital, Elaia Partners and Partech International.

The company is headed by Rob Williams, former president and market manager for Clear Channel New York. He’s joined by chief sales officer Drew Hilles, who led dMarc Broadcasting through an acquisition by Google, where he served as a director for four years. The company recently hired broadcast vet Joe Anastasi as account executive of the sales team. Anastasi was recently at Google Audio. About two months ago, Google shut down its Radio Ads product and is now developing a streaming audio-ad-placement service.

Goom’s subscription service is free and ad-supported. In addition to allowing its community to select stations tailored to their interests, Goom also notes that it employs DJs, programmers and journalists to provide the music and news. The funding will go toward building up its sales team and technology. Release

(via Paidcontent)

Jupidi launches mobile flirting site

· New German mobile flirting startup Jupidi has announced a successful fundraising (days after its launch).

· Portal jupidi.de the company offers single teenagers a new flirting service per SMS.

o The service targets users between the ages of 12 and 19 (calls its offering a ‘social enabling service’)

o Users can anonymously contact their crush by sending an SMS to figure out whether he or she feels the same.

o If so, they can continue one-to-one communication - still anonymously - guided by Jupidi’s matching and flirting program.

Jupidi’s matching process

· The user needs to indicate his or her own name, the name of the person they wish to contact, his or her mobile number and a hint about where they know each other from.

· SMS is then sent to Jupidi via the code number 60777.

· User pays 99 cents for the first SMS contact and 49 cents for each further one. Recipients pay their normal SMS fees only.

Company has now received an investment from German venture capitalist Neuhaus Partners (Amount undisclosed).

(via Tornado Insider)