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YouTube to launch mobile website soon - YouTube will launch its mobile website in June 2007 for U.S. users, according to a spokesperson. The mobile YouTube site will go live once the exclusivity clause on the company’s mobile video deal with Verizon Wireless expires. The service will be live for European users in May. YouTube has been already working closely with mobile carriers, and handset makers such as Nokia on the mobile version of their video service.

AdMob raises $15M, in race for mobile ad crown - AdMob, which says it has the largest ad platform for mobile phones, has raised $15 million in a second round of financing led by Silicon Valley’s venture firm Accel Partners, and including existing investor Sequoia Capital.

AdMob, of San Mateo, Calif., has served more than 1.6 billion ads in less than a year, and says that is more than any other player, including Third Screen Media, a Boston-based competitor that AOL is reportedly in talks to acquire (see WSJ).

But it isn’t clear whether AdMob is king. It says it served more than 600 million ads in Feb and March combined, an impressive acceleration from the 1 billion ads during the entire second half of last year. However, Third Screen says it shows about 350 million ads every month (we haven’t confirmed this, but this is what it tells the WSJ), suggesting it may be bigger. Third Screen has also announced major customers, from Fox News to Ford Motor Co. AdMob, by contrast, serves smaller companies.

Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School - Here’s a summary of the more compelling tips given by several tech industry luminaries — including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Gmail creator Paul Buchheit, Sequoia Capital venture capitalist Greg McAdoo — at the Y Combinator Startup School event at Stanford this weekend. The event attracted more than 650 aspiring entrepreneurs. Mark Coker, a VentureBeat contributing writer, was on hand and here are his notes.

Pyro.tv Launches - Latest Video Aggregator - Vibe Solutions, which built the Vibe Journal blogging platform we reviewed last year, will launch a video aggregator tomorrow. Pyro.tv lets you create personalized channels, find the most popular channels, view the subscriptions of other users, create your own channels and so on. It’s basically rehashing the concept of a video feedreader, an idea that has pretty much been replaced by YouTube’s subscribe feature. There’s also the ability to embed clips in MySpace, Friendster et al.

Coghead Raises $8 Million - Silicon Valley based Coghead is announcing an $8 million Series B round of financing this afternoon, adding to the $3.2 million raised previously from El Dorado Ventures in March 2006. New investors American Capital and SAP Ventures invested in this round, and El Dorado participated as well.

Originally posted on Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
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