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UC Berkeley: 4 Winning Cleantech Innovations

The Venture Lab Clean Technology Innovation contest is bringing four winning Cleantech innovations. The first prize was won by low cost fuel cell concept and walked away with a prize of $10000. UC Berkeley more...
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Ashton Kutcher-backed startup Ooma is faltering

Thanking its rise to a viral video marketing campaign by Ashton Kutcher, once high-profile Ooma, the VoIP startup seems to be faltering and doddering along and things look really shaky. It made news about more...
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Startup American Defense Systems gets $15 Million

American Defense Systems, which offers advanced solutions in the design, fabrication and installation of transparent and opaque armor, security doors, windows and curtain wall systems, has secured funding more...
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Analysis of How Yahoo! buying IndexTools changes Web Analytics

Eric T. Peterson, who has been working in web analytics for over ten years provides his analysis of the Yahoo shopping; Yahoo bought IndexTools to boost its Web Analytics kitty and shore up against the more...
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Kinetic Concepts to Offer $1.7 Billion for Lifecell

Medical equipment company Kinetic Concepts is offering about $51 a share and paying up a total of $1.7 Billion in cash, which is actually a 18% premium over the last closing stock price to buy LifeCell. more...
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RoadBlocks aims to stream Supply Chains Via the Web

Aiming to stream your supply chain online, RoadBlocks, spun out of Tourtellotte Solutions in December of 2007, Wayland, Mass.-based RockBlocks already has a large list of well-known retail clients, including more...
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SiBeam gets $40 Million in additional funding

Started in 2004, SiBeam is a fabless semiconductor company. This time the round of $40 Million was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Follow-on investments are included in this round from existing more...
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EXFO acquires Builds With Brix Networks

Ambitious test equipment company EXFO has big plans. Barely a week after acquiring Navtel, it is now moving on to acquire Brix Networks that specializes in IPTV testing and the shopping actually fits more...
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Windsor Energy Abandons I.P.O. Plans

Oklahoma City-based oil and natural gas discovery and development company Windsor Energy has decided to shelve its $175 Million IPO plans in the light of the current economic scene and that is definitely more...
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Acquisition: Twhirling Seesmic's Underweb

Ross Mayfield shares his wisdom on the latest buzz on the acquisition drama that is unfolding (first revealed by TechCrunch): Seesmic of San Francisco has acquired the Twitter client Twhirl and thus makes more...
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