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Startup MyYearbook Raises $13 Million More

Quick - which is the fastest growing social network (aimed at teens) in the world? Facebook? Nah. It's MyYearbook which just raised $13 Million from Northwest Venture Partners. In US, MyYearbook attracts more...
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BT buys Ribbit and guns for Android and Skype

Billing itself as Silicon Valley's first internet phone company, Ribbit's chief Ted Griggs is a happy man. BT is buying this startup for about $105 Million and Ribbit is all happy and gushing at this more...
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Tendril Networks provides new devices for the CleanTech consumers

Joining a host of eco startups like ComVerge, Eka Systems, Silver Spring Networks, Trilliant and others, Tendril Networks is introducing new devices and gizmos for the consumer market to tap into the more...
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Intel Capital invests in solar startup Voltaix

Branchburg, NJ based solar startup Voltaix has received $12.5 Million in funding from Intel Capital. The company manufactures electronic chemicals and gases for chip applications. It also makes CVD precursors more...
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Is Gannett Pumping $10 Million In Live Streamer Mogulus?

Yet another online video startup struggling to find its business model is in the news - Mogulus is said to have secured a funding of $10 Million from Gannett, which also happens to be its biggest customer. more...
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Search Start-Up Cuil Launches -- Can It Really Beat Google?

Boasting of four areas: Big web index, Unique relevance algorithm, Unique results display and Privacy, Cuil (pronounced "cool") has come out its stealth mode and is taking on the giant Google. The blogosphere more...
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IBM is buying Ilog for $340 million

French software company (already public) Ilog has been acquired by the Big Blue which has specific plans to combine Ilog's business rules management systems with its own business process management and more...
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Solar startup G24 Innovations raises $30 Million

After Morgan Stanley's first round of funding, Cardiff, Wales based startup G24 Innovations, a pioneer of dye-sensitized thin-film solar cells has raised its second round of $30 Million to boost its plans more...
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MobileBeat 2008 kicks off for mobile startups to parade

VentureBeat is trying to put its finger in to the hot hot mobile market and trying get a pulse of the plethora of new startups in this space by organizing MobileBeat 2008, their first ever event for mobile more...
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Startup Piczo Launches Pseudo API

San Francisco based and founded in July of 2007, the teenage focused social networking startup Piczo has launched its Pseudo API, whatever that means to provides hooks for developers. This company has more...
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