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Startup GodTube Gets $30 Million Funding

Startup GodTube was launched in summer last year in Dallas, and has since been among the fastest growing websites online...it now says it has about 2 million users a month. It got a whopping funding of more...
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StartupCamp 5 in SF This Weekend

Sun Microsystems is rolling on with its StartupCamp series, hosting the latest one (the fifth) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Jonathan Schwartz the CEO kicked it off on Sunday, 4 May with the more...
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Yahoo to outsource Messenger phone calls to startup Jajah

Startup Jajah is in the news. Jajah will connect the calls to and from users of Yahoo Messenger and handle billing and customer care; so, Yahoo is outsourcing this part completely to Jajah which is a more...
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Cox to buy online Ad Network Adify For $300 Million

Check out the convergence happenings. Cox Communication Enterprises is putting down a hefty $300 Million to buy out the online advertising network company Adify. Adify is actually a company that provides more...
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Khosla backs Four Lesser-Known Green Car Companies

Former Kliener Perkins honcho Vinod Khosla is revving up his Khosla Ventures investments into batteries, alternate energy sources and well, four less known green car companies. See if you know these names more...
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Russian Odnoklassniki.ru Set To Top $30 Million In Revenue

How would you feel if more than 100,000 new members were joining your network every day? That is what is happening to Odnoklassniki.ru (literally means "Classmates") Yakov of Quintura is saying that Odnoklassn more...
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TheStreet.com invests in Geezeo

The online money management tool Geezeo has given away 13% of its ownership to TheStreet.com with an option to buy it out completely at a later stage if TheStreet.com thinks so. With its "Educated Financial more...
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Changing Startup Culture: Ning, Twitter Viral VC Ventures

Donna Bogatin writes that of the Ning assumption that visions of fast-growing, highly scalable, multi-billion dollar viral (not so serendipitous) hits must be highly financed if the end-game of a lucrative more...
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Startup RightScale Takes $4.5M for the Cloud

Benchmark Capital has invested a neat $4.5 M into the Santa Barbara based startup RightScale which focuses on bringing cloud computing into the enterprise world. CEO Michael Crandell thinks that RightScale more...
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Apple Buys Chip Designer P A Semi

A boutique microprocessor chip design company with about 150 people was bought by Apple for about $278 Million in cash with the plans of this startup P.A.Semi to design the new chips that Apple needs in more...
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