Berkeley, Calif. - MOG, a music discovery service with a desktop music player, has raised $2.8 million in new financing, from Universal Music Investments, Sony BMG Music Investments and The Angels Forum 74, VentureBeat reported.

Los Angeles - Tudou, China's largest video-sharing site, has landed a $57 million fourth round of venture capital financing, from return backers IDG Technology Venture Investment, Granite Global Ventures and General Catalyst Partners, Pacific Epoch reports.

White Plains, N.Y. - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) on Thursday announced a promotional partnership with filmmaker Spike Lee, who will "direct" a film that utilizes user-submitted camera phone footage and other content.

Indianapolis, Ind. - Angie's List, a site that offers user-generated ratings and reviews on local service providers, announced on Thursday that it has received a $35 million equity investment from Battery Ventures, which will take a minority stake in the company.

Bethesda, Md. - WEbook, an online platform for authors, editors and writing groups to collaboratively create written works, on Wednesday launched a public beta test of its website. The company, backed by Greylock Partners Israel and several individual investors, is the brainchild of Itai Kohavi, an author of two novels and one children's book, who serves as chairman. WEbook also announced the release of "Pandora," its first published book, collaboratively written and edited by 17 alpha members of the online community.

Biarritz, France - iKlax Media on Tuesday announced the development of a new interactive audio format, iKlax, which enables listeners to select among the various tracks in a particular recording for listening. Artists can use iKlax Creator to create multi-track versions of their songs that listeners can then manipulate and listen to different versions. The creators said that their temporarily free software has been downloaded 10,000 times in the past two weeks, adding that 500 artists have downloaded iKlax Creator.

Boston - OurStage, an online competition for aspiring musicians, filmmakers and comedians, has raised $13 million in new financing from over 100 angel investors, Tech Confidential reported.

Newark, N.J. - The New Jersey Attorney General's Office and Division of Consumer Affairs have subpoenaed JuicyCampus, a site that lets college students post anonymous gossip, as part of an investigation into whether the site violates New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act.

San Francisco - Yahoo's (NASD: YHOO) Flickr photo-sharing service intends to branch out into video with the beta launch of a new Flickr video service next month, CNET News.com reported. The company told CNET that Flickr Video will not replace Yahoo Video, and that the service is not meant to compete with YouTube. Flickr director of product management Kakul Srivastava told CNET the service has to appeal in an "authentic" way to the Flickr community.

Austin - Surrge launched its new social distribution network and music community at the SXSW festival over the weekend, which promises to reward fans who tell friends and others about their favorite artists' songs by giving them 10% or more of the sale price of songs resulting from their recommendations. The service will allow members to upload favorite songs, and then send links to streaming versions to friends, and receive referrals when friends then purchase DRM-free downloads.

San Francisco - WeGame, a service that allows gamers to capture video while playing and upload and share the results, has raised $3 million in its second round of financing, led by True Ventures, TechCrunch reported.

San Francisco - Gizmoz, a provider of customized, user-generated avatars for use with social media services, announced on Monday that it has raised $6.5 million in its second round of financing, led by DoCoMo Capital.

San Bruno, Calif. - Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube video site on Wednesday introduced updates to its application programming interfaces (APIs) that will allow developers to integrate videos from the site into other applications, and showcased implementations from TiVo (NASD: TIVO), Electronic Arts (NASD: ERTS), Animoto and the University of California.

Manhattan Beach, Calif. - MaxxAthlete, an online social network and Internet broadcast network for youth sports, has raised $3 million of a $5 million first round of venture capital financing, from unnamed investors, VentureWire reports.

London - Slicethepie, a music discovery site where fans can invest in the recording of albums by their favorite artists, announced on Monday that it has raised $2 million in its third round of venture capital financing.

Moscow - The media division of Russian natural gas giant Gazprom will acquire RuTube, a Russia-based video-sharing site based that claims 5.5 million monthly visitors, for about $15 million, Russian News & Information Agency (RIA Novosti) reports.

San Diego - Video-sharing site Veoh is looking to raise $40 million in new financing and has hired Bear Stearns to facilitate the process, Silicon Alley Insider reported.

San Francisco - Yelp, a social media site where users can post reviews of local bars, restaurants and other businesses, announced on Wednesday that it has raised a $15 million fourth round of financing, led by DAG Ventures.

Paris - Video-sharing site Dailymotion announced on Monday that it has implemented digital video fingerprinting copyright filtering technology from INA across its entire site. The system will be used with the site's professionally produced content, as well as user-generated videos uploaded through the company's MotionMaker program. In addition to INA's technology, Dailymotion said it also employs a hashing system, audio fingerprinting, and blocks videos that have already been removed from the site.

San Diego - DivX, a developer of video compression technology and provider of video distribution services, announced on Monday that it will shut down Stage6.com, a service that let users upload and store videos encoded in its DivX format. Video already uploaded to the site will be available for viewing and download through Feb. 28. The company said the move allows it to focus on its DivX licensing business while also continuing to power distribution of DivX content on third-party sites.