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Three startups let users layer new content onto online video.
Today's Web pages feature streaming media, interactive applications, and forums for social interaction--content that Dow Jones's VentureWire, which tracks venture investment, refers to as "information services." Companies that provide those services have seen increasing funding for years.
But according to VentureWire, information services that specialize in entertainment have grown even faster than the sector as a whole, from seven deals worth $42 million in 2002 to 76 deals worth more than half a billion dollars in 2007. Investment in the first half of this year was ahead of even last year's torrid pace.
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