San Francisco - Mashery, a provider of services that help companies create APIs that open their content for use across the Web, announced that it has raised $2 million in new financing, led by .406 Ventures.

Somerville, Mass. - The Echo Nest, a "music intelligence" firm founded by two MIT Media Lab PhD's, on Thursday announced the release of the Musical Brain, which they say "automatically listens to music and reads about music everywhere on the Web in real-time." The company's first in a planned series of Web-based APIs, "Analyze," can analyze a music file in a few seconds and provide information on tempo, beats, time signature, timbre, key and other attributes. The Echo Nest said the Musical Brain combines large-scale Web crawling, data mining, language processing and audio analysis, and will be able to predict music trends.

San Francisco - Mashery, a San Francisco-based provider of services and software designed to help clients build "mashup" Web services, said on Thursday that it has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a new round led by Formative Ventures.