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Solar startup Suniva Inks $300M Polysilicon Deal with REC

Ajeet Rohatgi's ambitious startup Suniva, which is backed by over $50 million from New Enterprise Associates, Advanced Equities, Goldman Sachs Group, HIG Ventures and Quercus Investments, is signing a more...
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Vote for your favorite startup at MobileBeat 2008

Venturebeat is announcing their new gig - an event to vote for the most promising mobile startup and has opened up voting lanes, early registration for this event to be held on 24 July. So, hurry up and more...
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Praising the dual-class stock structures for public companies

Marc Andreessen pontificates again on this topic now - the issue of having dual classes in stock in public companies and does a volte face - a complete change in his views saying that it is a good option. more...
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Strands Tries Again: With New Social

Oregon, Corevallis based startup Strands, which has already raised a whopping $55 Million in funding and reportedly had revenues of about $12 Million in the last year, is trying a new avatar by taking more...
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SunEdison Gets princely $161M for PV Farms

The likes of Greylock Partners, HSH Nordbank AG, Applied Ventures, Black River Commodity Clean Energy Investment Fund, Black River Asset Management, MissionPoint Capital Partners and Allco Renewable Energy more...
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From Roku: The $100 Netflix Player

California startup Roku is coming out with a $100 box that competes with Apple TV and tries to directly use your Netflix account to stream movies and anything else that you may want to your big television more...
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When pitching for VC money, do reviews matter?

Michael Arrington has a post on theFunded.com, which is the now well-known website for either throwing bouquets or brickbats at VCs who either funded you or chose to ignore you through their own unique 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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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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At The Churchill Club tonight: The Top 10 Tech Trends

Two of the top valley VCs are going to share their vision of the Top 10 Tech Trends for the hoi polloi tonight at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel. Vinod Khosla of the Khosla Ventures and Steve Jurvetson of more...
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