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Online real estate resource Trulia has secured an additional $15 million in funding, led by existing lead investors Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Fayez Sarofim and Co. Having just rolled out a self-service marketing platform for real estate professionals to leverage for targeted advertising opportunities within its network, among other recent updates, Trulia has some ambitious goals for its site, despite the shifting economy.

There are a few initiatives by WidgetBucks that I’m interested in seeing played out, such as recommendations for page placement of widget ads and automatic modification of dynamic ads based on context and end user behavior.

WPP Group has purchased a stake in Yield Software, whose service helps marketers shift traditional media budgets to online advertising, reports MediaPost.

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, announced today it has made a strategic investment in INVIDI Technologies Corporation, a leader in advanced addressable advertising for the television industry. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.

Ad network Adconion Media Group has acquired Frontline Direct, a data management and e-mail marketing firm, for $20 million in cash and equity.

Turn Inc., the ad network founded by Jim Barnett, the former CEO of Altavista, came on the scene with $8 million in a round of funding last year, and is now furthering its automated ad placement process with the launching of the Turn Smart Market.

Widgetbox has just closed its Series B funding, getting an additional $8 million from Sequoia Capital, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, NCD Investors, and private investor Michael Dearing. From the looks of it, the funding will go towards the development of new products, and the express expansion of its revenue-sharing program DevShare.

As behavioral measure find themselves more integrated into our online advertising methods, more ad networks and companies are looking to algorithmic methods for targeting their ads.

Interactive marketing spend in the US will grow to $61.3 billion in 2012, from $18.4 billion in 2007 – a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27%, Forrester Research forecast in a report issued this week. Interactive’s share of total ad spend is forecast to increase from 8% in 2007 to 18% in 2012.

The founders of online telephone service Skype have revealed that they will invest in online advertising firm Wunderloop.

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