TechCrunch: Maker Media has raised $5 million in funding from Ev Williams’ Obvious Ventures, Raine Ventures, Azure Capital, and previous investors OATV and Floodgate, as well as some debt financing from Square 1. The funding has helped the media company to pull in Rafe Needleman to head up digital content. Needleman is a long-time technology editor who has been reviewing gadgets and gizmos for the last two decades in Silicon Valley. He joins Maker Media from his most recent gig as the editorial director for Yahoo Tech.