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Comcast Acquires Plaxo, Deal Closed Today

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch writes that all those rumors swirling around of the possible Plaxo deal are true and that Comcast has acquired this 2002 startup for some price between $150 and $170 Million. more...
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Ask.com is Buying Lexico, the Owner Of Dictionary.com

Greg Sterling of SearchEngineLand has this post about the interesting acquisition of Lexico by Ask.com. As you may already be aware, Lexico is the owner of this well-known and popular reference sites more...
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The Social MishMash: Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web

After Google announced its initiative to create the Open Social as a way of open, collaborative social networking development, many big names have joined the bandwagon. Now, Marc Andreessen's Ning has more...
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PowerGenix Demos its Battery in a Prius

San Diego, California based eight year old startup PowerGenix has just now demonstrated its first battery pack for a Toyota Prius. PowerGenix says its nickel-zinc battery is 35 percent smaller than the more...
2 Comments  |  Topic: Clean Tech  |  

Lessons Shared by Zoho Creator Pricing

Zoho is being frank and open in sharing what it calls its own strategic pricing bungle and is explaining what went into this decision making and what steps were taken that lead it to go off the success more...
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New Search Engine Powerset Launches

After a lot of hoopla and making a big splash of how it would become a Google killer, the new kid in the search engine land, Powerset has finally released a glimpse of what is capable of doing using the more...
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Jangl and TalkPlus going down

Jangl and TalkPlus, both Bay area based VoIP companies which launched with a lot of fanfare and got pretty decent funding from the deep pockets, are having a tough time and are looking to have buyers to more...
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SlideShare Gets $3M From Dave McClure, Mark Cuban, Venrock

Rashmi Sinha, Jonathan Boutelle and Amita Ranjan founded SlideShare.com to share your powerpoint presentations online and is rapidly gaining a lot of attention from well-known angels and finally bagged more...
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Spot Runner Raises Another $51M

Allen & Company, Battery Ventures, Capital Research and Management, CBS, Index Ventures, The Interpublic Group, Tudor Investment Corporation, and WPP were joined by Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), more...
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Taleo acquires Vurv

Tapping into "Human Capital Management" sector of the "Software-As-A-Service" market, Taleo Corp has agreed to pay approximately $129 Million to acquire its smaller rival company Vurv. Many believe that more...
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