Motorola Ventures, a subsidiary of Motorola, Inc. has invested in BlackArrow, a New TV platform ad company. This is an extension of BlackArrow’s previously announced Series C funding. BlackArrow addresses a way that video-on-demand and DVR viewers responds to ads. Content distributors can use the BlackArrow Decision Suite to deploy dynamic ad insertion rapidly into video-on-demand. Below is the full press release:

INVIDI Technologies Corporation is a TV company that is in the advanced addressable advertising solutions. The company announced that they have raised $23 million in Series D funding, led by Google. Other investors include GroupM, Motorola Ventures, Menlo Ventures, InterWest, and EnerTech.

Google Buzz

Google is making GMail more interactive by integrating additional social media features into the service. Coined as Google Buzz, GMail will soon have the ability to share videos, photos, and websites with contacts within the e-mail service itself. Flickr and Twitter are both supported. [Google Blog]

Apple Aperture 3

Apple has upgraded Aperture to the 3rd version this morning. Aperture is a high-end photo editing software. New features include Faces, Places, and Brushes. [Apple.com]

LG GD800 Mini and GT350

LG has announced two new mobile devices: the LG GD880 Mini and the GT350. THe GD880 has a 3.2″ touchscreen, 5 megapixel cam, WiFi, AGPS, and 7.2Mbps HSDPA. The GT350 has a four line QWERTY sliding keyboard and a 3″ WQVA touchscreen. No details on pricing yet. The GD880 Mini will be available in Europe starting next month. [BGR]

Foursquare-Zagat Deal

Foursquare has announced a deal with Zagat. Foursquare will soon offer their users a “Foodie” badge that indicates how many times the user has rated restaurants on Zagat. [NYT]

Motorola Invests In TuneWiki

TuneWiki has raised $7 million in funding from several investors. This is TuneWiki’s second round of investment. Investors include Motorola Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Intellect Capital Ventures, HillsVen Capital LLC, and Novel TMT. [Globes Israel]

Flixster Raises $12.5 Million

Flixster was recently acquired by Rotten Tomatoes, but that hasn’t stopped the company from raising additional funding. According to a filing with the SEC, Flixster has raised $12.5 million. The investors were undisclosed. Flixster currently receives 30 million unique visitors per month. [VentureBeat]

Yammer Raises $10 Million

Yammer, the micro-blogging enterprise service has raised $10 million in funding as part of a Series B. Yammer has about 60,000 companies registered as their clients. “We said that we would use our Series B financing to bolster engineering, sales, and marketing,” stated Yammer founder and CEO David Sacks in a press release. [PRWeb]

Motorola has made an investment in a company that focuses on multi-touch technologies. The company that received the investment is Sensitive Object. Sensitive Object designed a platform called Anywhere MultiTouch that adds a virtual touchpad to the surfaces of a device. Sensitive Object can transform any product into a touch device using their ReverSys system.

Sensitive Object uses acoustics in the ReverSys system to “analyze sound waves departing from the point of a touch to precisely and cost-effectively transform any product into a touch device.”

“Natural user interface (NUI) and in particular interacting with a device through touch is an area of rapid development and great excitement,” stated Motorola Ventures Managing Director Reese Schroeder. “Sensitive Object provides an innovative and unique approach allowing new ways of interaction. We’re most excited to be involved in their growth and success.” The financial details were undisclosed regarding the investment.