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Tuesday roundup: TripHub's Orbitz deal, Trumba's new win, a lawsuit from InfoSpace, etc.

  • It's been a big day for online travel, with Seattle startup Yapta announcing $2.3 million in venture capital and Santa Clara, Calif.-based SideStep acquiring TripUp. Also moving today, Seattle's TripHub is announcing a partnership with Orbitz to bring its group travel planning tools to the online travel agency. It is TripHub's third strategic partnership, joining Alaska Airlines and People to People Student Ambassador Programs. TripHub is backed by Madrona Venture Group and led by former Expedia executive Josh Herst.

  • Hollywood Reporter has the story on a lawsuit that InfoSpace filed July 5 against the auditors of EMI, the recording giant which earlier this year sued Bellevue-based InfoSpace for $100 million over ringtone royalty payments. Hollywood Reporter notes that InfoSpace has sued Gelfand Rennert & Feldman, alleging that the firm released a report with "false, malicious and unjustified statements" about the InfoSpace business.

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  • Bellevue's HipCricket will bring its mobile text-messaging campaigns to six new radio groups, representing 43 stations nationwide. The groups include Hubbard Radio; Triad Broadcasting Company; Perry Broadcasting Inc.; Press Communications; Sandusky Radio Seattle; and South Central Radio Group. You may have heard the text-messaging promotions on Seattle Mariners' broadcasts where listeners are asked to text an answer to a trivia question that is asked on air.

  • And speaking of Seattle companies inking deals in the radio and TV industries, online calendar provider Trumba announced Oregon Public Broadcasting as its latest media customer today. The community calendar will allow OPB's 1.5 million weekly viewers and listeners to access events listed in 16 different categories. Trumba, which is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, August Capital and Oak Investment Partners, recently has inked deals with Wired News and King 5.

  • Big Fish Games said that its new adventure puzzle game Azada has been played by more than 600,000 people in the past two weeks, making it one of the best-selling games at the Seattle distributor of casual games this year.

  • Light Sciences Oncology, the Snoqualmie cancer research company which postponed an initial public offering last fall, today announced that it has raised $30 million in a second round of funding. In May, I reported that $15 million in new money had flowed into the company as part of its second round of funding (I have a call into the company to see if that $15 million is included in this announcement). Light Sciences Oncology, whose technology uses light to activate drugs that destroy cancer cells, raised $67 million in December 2005. More on the company's approach from this story. (The company confirms the funding at $15 million for a total round of $30 million, with only new investors Lehman Brothers The Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund, Deephaven Growth Opportunities and Fidelity participating.)

  • ForeclosurePoint.com, the free foreclosure property listing service from Bellevue's DepotPoint, has launched service in the San Diego area. Already operating in four counties in Western Washington, ForeclosurePoint.com plans to expand to Los Angeles and Orange County next. DepotPoint, led by former InfoSpace executive Prakash Kondepudi, landed $4 million in funding in May.

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