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eBay Trying To Sell Off StumbleUpon

This is actually Mike Arrington story, but Peter Kafka asks a good question here. After buying the website recommendation engine StumbleUpon for a crazy $75 Million, eBay is now trying to sell it off. more...
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Big Fish Games Garners $83.3 Million For Casual Game Distribution

Originally founded in 2002 as a game development studio, Big Fish Games has gotten pretty nice funding from Balderton Capital, General Catalyst Partners, and Salmon River Capital. It has secured $83.3 more...
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Top 5 Reasons to Move Your Startup Out of Silicon Valley

Howard Anderson is a founder of The Yankee Group, a cofounder of Battery Ventures, and a professor of business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lists 5 very interesting reasons for moving more...
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Search Engine Marketing Firm iProspect Buys Range Online Media

Range Online Media, which boasts of clients like Calvin Klein, Macys.com, Toshiba, The Sundance Channel, Hermes of Paris, Burberry, and Neiman Marcus, has been acquired by iProspect for an undisclosed more...
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Yammer wins the TechCrunch50 Award

So, this is the case of Twitter going into the corporate world as Yammer. Yammer operates on the question - “What are you working on?” instead of the overarching question of Twitter which is “what more...
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Solar Startup SolFocus Builds Spanish Solar Plant - Phase 1

Focusing on photovoltaics and claiming to building the world’s first commercial-scale concentrating photovoltaic system, is owned by the Spanish Institute of Concentration Photovoltaic Systems (ISFOC), more...
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MediaMax/TheLinkup Hangs up its boots

From Streamload to MediaMax to TheLinkup, this startup has gone through a number of changes from names to business plans - from being just an online storage site to social networking and what have you. more...
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Startup Graspr Gets $2.5 Million

CEO Teresa Williams who showed the online video site at DEMO last year, announced that Graspr has gotten its Series A funding of $2.5 Million from Draper Fisher and Jurvetson. Graspr is entering an over more...
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Skyfire gets $13M in funding

Led by chief Nitin Bhandari, Mountain View based startup Skyfire is trying to raise the stakes in enhancing the mobile web browsing experience and has raised a nice cache of $13 Million in funding. more...
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IAC buys GirlSense.com Parent StarNet

Israeli startup StartNet which has raised $2.7 Million from VC funding and is the owner of the well-known community website GirlSense.com, that provides virtual dressing mechanism and guidance has been more...
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