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LivingSocial, the Groupon competitor, has announced that they’ve raised $25 million in Venture Capital series B round from U.S. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, and Revolution, LLC.

LivingSocial are best known for their Facebook apps like Visual Bookshelf, Pick Your 5, and Polls. They’re now moving into deals and daily deals market, which is dominated by Groupon, which recently announced that they’ve raised $30 million.

Sonos, makers of home theater solutions (and some good ones, too), has announced that they’ve raised $25 million in Venture Capital from Index Ventures Partners, bringing the total funding Sonos has got to $65 million.

The company makes home theater and music solutions, and have recently launched an iPhone application where users can control their home theaters from their phones.

Apple has finally opened the gates for pre-ordering their upcoming tablet, iPad. The new device, which pretty much works as a much larger iPhone and is build on the same platform, retails from $500. And while all iPhone apps will be compatible with the iPad, the new device will give media publishers a new platform to distribute their magazines, and, especially ebooks.

The iPad will ship to customers on April 3.

LG GW370 Shannon cellphone
Sceptre Chrome HDTV Spotted
Prison Break gets dated
Garmin 72H Waterproof Handheld GPS with High-Sensitivity

SmartPhone Technologies Sues 7 Big Companies
Lucid Imagination Raises $10 Million in Series B funding
Evri Acquires Radar Networks
Betaworks raises $20 million
Quantcast Now Offers Audience Insights for Every Country
UK’s Autoquake raises £6m
Twitter adds new security features to combat phishing
Google launches Google Apps Marketplace

SmartPhone Technologies of Texas has sued 7 big name companies due to patent infringements. The 7 companies are Apple, Research In Motion, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Sanyo and AT&T. SmartPhone Technologies is claiming that a number of patents have been infringed and these include email syncing, Bluetooth connectivity and other technologies.

They are seeking an unspecified damages, costs and expenses. The suit was already filed at the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas.

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Lucid Imagination has announced that the company has raised $10 million in a Series B round of VC funding from Shasta Ventures with Granite Ventures, and Walden International.

Lucid was launched in 2005 and offers a search technology based on open source platforms. Its product is used at Zappos, Nike and Netflix, among others. The latest round of funding brings the total amount to $18 million.

Search engine Evri has acquired competitor Radar Networks, after Radar Networks has been trying to find a buyer for the past few months. Both companies are funded by Vulcan Capital, and while the price for the acquisition wasn’t revealed, it’s suspected to be an equity-based transaction, meaning little or no cash changed hands. radar Networks is mostly known for making Twine, a semantic web application.