Smartphone ad network Todacell has added another $1 million in funding to an existing $1 million round the Tel Aviv-based company raised back in June. Israeli VC AfterDox, which provided the last $1 million, also ponied up the same amount this time as well. In addition to the $2 million…

Advice site LivePerson has acquired web analytics company NuConomy for $3 million, Techcrunch reports, citing an unidentified source and a rumor on an Israeli website. No comment yet from the two companies. Tel Aviv-based NuConomy, which also has a San Francisco office, has raised roughly $3.3 million since launching about…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is in discussions to purchase Israeli startup 3DV Systems for $35 million, Haaretz.com reported this morning. According to the report, Microsoft intends to use the company’s technology, which enables gamers to control 3DV games using a camera and body gestures, to add to its Xbox offerings. The…

Israeli internet TV tech provider Tvinci (get it? Like Da Vinci, ha ha) has completed its first round of $1.6 million led by private investors Zohar Gilon and Ron Tamir’s Keidan Group. The Tel Aviv-based company is also looking for a second round in order to expand sales into other…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has covered the chunk of Israeli tech company N-Trig’s $24 million funding, the WSJ reports. Other backers include Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd, Canaan Partners and Evergreen Venture Partners, Reuters was told. N-Trig, which also has offices in Austin, Texas, and Taipei, will work with Microsoft on creating…

Israel-based SundaySky has raised its first round of $8 million. Carmel Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners led the funding, which the company will use to expand its marketing and business development activities in the U.S. as well as continue to develop its products. Carmel Ventures’ general partner Avi Zeevi and…

Superfish, a startup focused on visual search, has raised $5.3 million in a second round of funding, peHUB says, citing a regulatory filing. DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures (the Israeli partner of U.S. investment firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson), the Individuals’ Venture Fund and Xenia Venture Capital participated in the round. The…

Sports data provider Stats has acquired a rather buzzy company SportVU, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based motion-capture tech provider, for an undisclosed sum. The company, besides having sports clients, provided that famous CNN “hologram” technology that resulted in its reporters and other guests being “beamed into” the studios from remote locations.…

Online video discovery engine Taboola has secured $4.5 million in a second round of funding. Previous investor Evergreen Ventures led the round, which also included funds from a new group of Israeli and American investors. The Tel Aviv-based company rolled out a new product called ViDiscovery (NSDQ: DISAB), which lets…

Israeli company CogniSafe has raised a seed round from U.S.-based 21Ventures. Financials were not disclosed. Founded in 2006, CogniSafe provides anti-cheat software for online games, allowing game providers to detect the dishonest behavior and shut down cheaters’ accounts. It said it would use the funding for ongoing product development as…

Meanwhile, the widget economy is functioning in a parallel, oblivious universe: Widget distribution firm Gigya has received $11 million in its third round of funding. The round was led by DAG Ventures and included previous investors Benchmark Capital, First Round Capital, and Mayfield Fund. The round brings the Palo Alto…

Israel-based PicApp, a stock photo source for online publishers and bloggers, has raised a $3.2 million round led by Carmel Ventures. The image service also introduced a non-flash version of its embeddable widget and has begun supplying photos to men’s media network Yardbarker. Spun off from visual content monitoring company…

A number of startups have pushed the notion of social or group browsing—basically the idea of chatting with other people that are looking at the same page. So far it doesn’t seem to have taken hold in mass. The latest is Xpanity, an Israeli company that’s raised $1.5 million from…

YouLicense, an Israeli online music licensing platform, has raised an initial round of funding from Ofer Media. Terms were not disclosed in the announcement, though TC reports that it got $1 million. The basic idea: users put their music on the platform, where potential licensors can find it and negotiate…

Chinese online media holding firm Koolanoo Group has received a biggish $25 million in its third round of funding, even as it announced a planned IPO on the Hong Kong market in March this year. An undisclosed investor—“an international investment group”—led the round, and was joined by return backer Israeli…

Microsoft-owned MSN is going to part ways with its JV partner Internet Gold in Israel, and will be running MSN Israel portal on its own from October this year, the two companies announced. IG is an Internet-related holding company in Israel, and has been MSN’s local partner since 2000…MSN Israel…

Aniboom, an Israeli animation network, has raised a $10 million second round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures, along with past backer Evergreen Venture Partners. The company previously raised $4.5 million last year, for a total of $14.5 million. Not only is the company an online…

Google giveth and Google taketh away: many websites rely heavily on Google’s AdSense program for revenue. Israeli email marketer IncrediMail apparently relies so much on AdSense that, when it told investors early this morning that Google was barring it and disabling its ads, the company’s stock price opened 40 percent…

Instructional video site 5min has raised $5 million in a first round financing from Spark Capital. The company, which raised a separate $300k in an angel round from unidentified investors last April, now plans to move its headquarters from Tel Aviv, Israel to New York. The name is based on…