More VC money getting invested into one more independent mobile ad network: 4INFO has raised $14 million in funding in a round led by Paul Allen’s firm Vulcan Capital and Mitsui Global. The money will mainly be used to spin off and develop the company’s AdHaven mobile audience platform division.

4info, the text message search and alerts firm, has agreed to acquire mobile advertising start-up Butter, reports Venturebeat.com. The terms of the deal, which is slated to close by the end of July, were not disclosed, though 4info plans to keep the entire Butter team employed. 4info CEO Zaw Thet…

4INFO, the San Mateo, Calif.-based company that enables ad-supported text messaging campaigns for media companies, has raised $20 million in a round of funding that includes both equity and debt. Existing investors Peacock Equity and Gannett (NYSE: GCI), US Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Sand Hill Capital participated in…

There’s still a cloud of uncertainty hovering over Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless’ on-again, off-again plans to begin charging aggregators, messaging companies and other partners 3 cents per SMS delivered on its network. And yet, plenty of companies are expecting the worst – which would see Verizon implement the new charge…

That’s according to Gannett’s (NYSE: GCI) latest quarterly report 10-Q, filed this afternoon with the SEC. Buried in the report is this nugget: “The company also increased its investment in 4INFO subsequent to the end of the period, maintaining its approximate ownership interest.” Translated: The newspaper company has invested more…

4Info, the mobile search and ad network, in which Gannett (NYSE: GCI) has a stake, has done a new deal with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), where the San Mateo, CA-based startup will provide the technology for Yahoo to publish its content, such as news updates, horoscopes, sports scores and weather forecasts,…

We reported last month on how Peacock Equity—a JV between GE Commercial Finance’s Media, Communications & Entertainment business and NBC Universal—invested in mobile search and messaging provider 4INFO, but the amount was not disclosed. Now, according to an SEC filing, picked up by PEhub, that amount was $2.5 million….the amount…

Peacock Equity, a joint venture between GE Commercial Finance’s Media, Communications & Entertainment business and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), has invested in mobile search and messaging provider 4INFO. The amount of the investment was not disclosed, but 4INFO CEO Zaw Thet said the total round came to $15 million, including…