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September 5th, 2008 |
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Search optimizer Quintura has raised an undisclosed bridge funding Mangrove Capital Partners as part of a larger round of financing. In a post on its official blog, Moscow-based Quintura hopes this latest capital infusion will attract additional investors. It also hopes to grow its audience reach from its current 8 [...]
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September 5th, 2008 |
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Lookery, a company that trolls demographic data on social net users and sells it to ad networks, has raised $2.25 million, Venturebeat reports. It says Lookery has already raised $1 million in angel funding. Since initially starting as banner ad network for third party apps on sites like Facebook and [...]
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September 5th, 2008 |
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Maybe it was the bad economy. Maybe it's the back-to-school season or an attempt to generate more interest ahead of Christmas shopping period. In any case, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) hopes to see a sales boost now that its XBox console is now cheaper than rivals Nintendo Wii and Sony (NYSE: [...]
Mobile Technology, wireless, Venture Capital Gregory T. Huang wrote: Tom Huseby has a fairly normal-looking BlackBerry phone. No fancy software on it, he says-not even from Ontela, SnapIn, or Zumobi, local mobile-tech companies for which he serves as chairman of the board. It rang two or three times during our [...]
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September 5th, 2008 |
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Enterprise software, which has gone from running on the computer to being hosted in a corporate data center, is now moving out to nebulous pools of servers called clouds. As computing clouds become part of the corporate information technology environment, making sure software hosted in the cloud is delivered as [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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This just got a lot uglier, but expected: Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is now appealing the Federal Communications Commission to block the regulatory agency's decision to cite and sanction the company for blocking certain Internet traffic. Comcast challenged the FCC decision Thursday in the U.S. District Court of Appeals in Washington [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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We mentioned an earlier closing of this round, but the amount was lower then: now Tel Aviv-based SemantiNet, a semantic web startup focused on developing tools for better Web browsing, has raised $3.4 million in its first round of funding. The company's product hasn't launched yet but promises on later [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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Earlier this week, when I announced the promotion of Paul Walborsky to CEO of Giga Omni Media, the company I started in 2006, it was part of a plan that was hatched long before I returned to work after my health scare. That plan was to make the company less [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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AlwaysOn has just put out its second annual GoingGreen Top 100 Private Companies Awards and named Craig Venter's Synthetic Genomics as the GoingGreen Overall Winner. The startup aims to make biofuels by design through synthetically created organisms. Venter says his startup will produce octane from carbon dioxide - so-called "fourth [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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Vibes Media, a mobile marketing company, will announce on Thursday that it has raised $15 million from Fidelity Ventures in its first round of fund-raising, mocoNews reported. Vibes, a 10-year-old company based in Chicago, will use the money for acquisitions and research and development. The company claims clients like Coca-Cola, [...]
Venture Capital, deals, innovation Gregory T. Huang wrote: Lately I've been hearing from the tech-startup community about the need to get venture capitalists from the San Francisco Bay Area to spend more time in Seattle-and with the companies they invest in here. The topic first came up during a coffee [...]
deals, Life Sciences, Devices Ryan McBride wrote: Amar Sawhney has turned a number of products based on his hydrogel inventions into FDA-approved products and rich paydays for his investors. With several successful hydrogel ventures already under his belt, Sawhney is at it again with Augmenix, a Waltham, MA, medical-devices startup [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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The HealthCentral Network, the heavily-backed online health and wellness information network, has bought out HIV/AIDS patient resource TheBody.com and HIV/AIDS health professional resource TheBodyPro.com, as well as its parent company NYC-based Body Health Resources Corp. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. TheBody was founded 10 years ago...this is [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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Raptr, an online social gaming start-up, has received $12 million in its first round of funding, PaidContent.org reported. Accel Partners and the Founders Fund are said to have led the round for the company, which allows users to track real-time game play through various social networks. Go to Article from [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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The Wall Street Journal, which is basking in the glory of launching its luxury magazine supplement "WSJ.", also slipped in a reference to the relaunch of its real WSJ., meaning Wsj.com: after a year and change of redesign effort, it is being launched on Sep 19, with "lots of wonderful [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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I was chatting with Hank Williams today about startups and the evolving venture capital landscape and he pointed me to Judy Estrin's upcoming book "Closing The Innovation Gap." I guess I just added another title to my ever-growing, impossible-to-catch-up-with reading list. Or I can just go for the Cliff Notes [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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I am back in the saddle after a month long hiatus and glad to report that Seatwave acquired Dutch ticketing leader Skelper. Besides great commercial agreements we are getting additional revenues, customers and a strong local management team. Skelper has exclusive deals with Feyenoord, PSV, FC Groningen and others. M&A [...]
Invention, people, Science Fiction Gregory T. Huang wrote: When I visited Nathan Myhrvold last month at the Intellectual Ventures lab in Bellevue, WA, I didn't get a chance to meet one of the lab's most distinguished residents, science-fiction novelist Neal Stephenson. Myhrvold mentioned him during our meeting, but it was [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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When the times get tough the tough choose cheaper, open-source phone systems. Such seems to be the theme of Fonality CFO Dan Rosenthal's chat with me about the company's latest $12 million venture funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund with participation from existing investor Intel Capital. And you [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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http://www.nebuad.com/, its business model in shambles following Congressional scrutiny of its deals with ISP broadband providers like Charter Communications (NSDQ: CHTR), has lost its CEO, Bob Dykes, to payment services company VeriFone. Dykes begins the new job effective immediately. Since Dykes was at the helm of NebuAd, San Jose, CA.-based [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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The "Disney (NYSE: DIS) difference" lies in the company's ability to weave its deep and familiar library of content into virtual worlds that give kids the opportunity to participate in their own storytelling, Steve Parkis, SVP of Disney Online, said at his closing keynote here at the Virtual Worlds conference [...]
