Roku is an Internet TV streaming device company that has raised $8 million in funding according to a form D filed with the SEC earlier this week. The lead investor in this round is Globespan Capital Partners and Menlo Ventures. Google VP of TV and film entertainment Robert Kyncl also participated in this round.

AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) has acquired 5min Media, a video tutorial website that teaches people how to do different tasks. Although AOL did not confirm the value of the acquisition, sources believe that it was an all-cash deal worth $50-$65 million.

Social network gaming company Zynga has acquired Austin, TX based company Challenge Games.  The financial transaction rumored to be behind the deal is $20.5 million in stock.  Challenge Games is being renamed to Zynga Austin.  Challenge Games raised funding in the past from Sequoia Capital and Globespan Capital Partners. [TechCrunch]

VoIP startup Jajah has been acquired for $200 million by O2. Microsoft and Cisco were reportedly both involved in the bidding process. Jajah made its one billionth call back in June. Jajah has about 15 million users, many of whom make calls from Yahoo! Messenger. Jajah also has a deal with Microsoft. Jajah raised a total of $30 million in funding over four VC rounds. Sequoia, Intel, Globespan, and T-Venture were all involved in Jajah’s funding.

Blackwave is an Acton, Mass. based company that hosts and streams videos on the Internet. The company has recently raised $7 million in Series C from Globespan Capital Partners, Sigma Partners, and Flybridge Capital Partners. Thus far Blackwave has raised a total of $29 million in total funding.

“This renewed investment, combined with the ongoing acquisition of a range of new customers and partners, signals the market’s great confidence in our technology and our value proposition,” stated Blackwave CEO Bob Rizika.

5min is a website that features do-it-yourself videos that revolve around categories ranging from arts to pet care to health to video games.  5min has raised a $7.5 million second round of funding from Globespan Capital Partners and Spark Capital.  Globespan led the round.

5min receives about 200 million views per month and has a library of over 100,000 short videos.  5min also syndicates content to wikiHow, Wikia, and hundreds of other websites driving pageviews to their website.

This round of funding will be used to further developer 5min’s VideoSeed syndication platform.  This allows websites to scrape video content from their website, but with advertising built in.

5min raised $5 million in their first round of funding from Spark around November 2007.  Seven months before that, 5min raised $300,000 from angel investors.

[via VentureBeat]

Amobee Media Systems is a San Francisco, CA based company that is developing a new form of mobile advertising and has recently gained an unlisted amount of funding from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, and Globespan Capital Partners.

Amobee “has built and designed the first and only telco-grade ad-serving solution 100% dedicated to mobile operators, allowing them to ad-fund all non-voice related applications and services: WAP Browsing, Video & Music, SMS, MMS, and Games.” Amobee allows users to decide if they want to view non-voice advertising content or to pay for avoiding advertisements. Advertisements would be relevant to the content being viewed.

In a previous investment, Amobee raised $5 million from Sequoia and Accel. Amobee has offices in London, San Francisco, and has a research and development arm in Herzliya, Israel.