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AOL buys Sphere

Om Malik first spoke about this. The San Francisco based startup Sphere, which pulls and provides related content from across the web has been acquired by the once-almighty AOL for an undisclosed amount; more...
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Fred Says We Need A New Path To Liquidity

Fred Wilson has come out with a blog post that is rocking the blogosphere saying that the big giants (Yahoo, Google, News Corp, etc) are treating the internet assets like toys while smaller services like more...
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The end of young startup Mowser

In April 2007, Russell Beattie started a mobile browser company called Mowser and now after one year of trying hard, is giving it up. He says that he was unable to raise capital or get enough users to 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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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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Meebo Goes For Fundraising Instead Of Sale

Rumors said that at one point they looked for a valuation of $250 Million but could not find a buyer and therefore, web chat startup Meebo has gone in for another round of funding, says TechCrunch's Michael more...
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Cluuz is The Next Generation Search Engine

Here is a nice review of a startup - Cluuz, which is a next generation web search engine whose web search results are powered by: Yahoo Search Web Service, Microsoft Live Search, Alexa Web Search, Technorati 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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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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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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