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Box.net has raised $6 million in a Series B financing led by venture capital firm U.S. Venture Partners, and includes Box.net Series A investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The capital will be used to continue company expansion, including the development and marketing of new services and products.

The New York Times reports that Automattic, the commercial arm of the popular WordPress publishing platform for blogs, has received $29.5 million in financing from four companies, including a small portion from The New York Times Company. Many other have reported on this round of funding, so take a look at what has been said at GigaOM, RWW and Techcrunch.

Box.net, the file-sharing and storage system, has two announcements coming later today. First up is the launching of the second version of its Facebook application, followed by the announcement of its Files application being opened up as a development platform for other Facebook developers.

With version 2 of the Facebook Files application, Box.net will offer new file privacy options, which is incredibly important for Facebook users when taking on these applications (and an important consideration for developers as well). As Facebook newsfeeds and profile settings are social by default, most Facebook applications don’t allow much room for self-management tools, like calendars, to-do lists, etc. Box.net’s latest version will also work well with Facebook’s new email-out option as well.

The furthered step of opening its Files application to the developers community will encourage a new group of file-sharing applications that are designed for Facebook’s social space, as the box.net service can be integrated into these other applications. The developer’s platform is scheduled to be made available some time next month.

Via (Mashable)