Startup Twilio has raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, and including Union Square Ventures, 500 Startups, and several prominent angel

Today, YouTube invited a group of press to its headquarters in San Bruno to highlight some of its progress over the last few months (and there’s been a lot). Topics discussed included the revamped homepage, which the company is hoping to make increasingly addictive, and a new ad unit that lets you pick the advertisement you’d prefer to watch (Hulu has offered something similar for a while now). The event also had two big pieces of product news: YouTube is a about to launch a new