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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...
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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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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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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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Brightkite: Another newbie in mobile social networking

Martin May is the founder of Denver based newbie Brightkite at mobile social networking - joining a long list of all those out there trying to tap into the location problem that Dodgeball (remember?) was 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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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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CleanTech venture Mascoma gets $81 Million

VCs are pouring it on - tons of money into CleanTech startups with big deals: Range, Mascoma, Coskata and others are all racing to raise huge amounts in an attempt to bring the world’s first full-scale more...
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Signing Off, And What Does A Blogger Actually Use?

Duncan Riley, the veteran expert on Australian politics and well known blogger, extremely prolific at TechCrunch is quitting after exactly one year. He bids adieu and in his final post, he shares the more...
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