• MediaMemo, Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:28 PM

Social media desktop platform Tweetdeck just raised another $3 million in a Series-B round of financing. The London-based startup -- which builds software to help people consume continuously updating information streams -- has now raised roughly $5 million in under two years. "This is an inside round, with all the previous investors led by Betaworks, participating," Media Memo reports.

Still, "if you want to be a skeptic you might wonder why the company didn't get new money this time." Tweetdeck also just released a new version that supports Google Buzz and Foursquare, which allows users to view updates, see venue information, and check in from a venues. Tweetdeck also now supports custom URL shorteners, better video upload and scheduled updates. The Google Buzz support was made possible by the recent relaunch of the Google Buzz API, which -- along with TweetDeck -- now supports Seesmic, Plancast and Boxee.

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