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25 Big Names Who Ditched Infotech for Cleantech

Katie has dug out the list of 25 prominent names from the world of IT and the high-tech as we know it and have moved on to changing this world into something more green. The list includes top names such 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...
Discuss  |  Topic: Dead Startups  |  

The Story of Tesla’s Founders' Fight

Tesla Motors has been in the news for a lot of reasons. Some of it has been positively negative - the fight between the investor, founder Elon Musk, who it is now reported had put in about $55 Million more...
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Ad startup IntroNiche claims to be different

An ad marketplace is just what we were all missing. IntroNiche is claiming that its offering - a marketplace where small companies and entrepreneurs find the right partners to promote each other in the more...
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Sequoia pumps $4.5 million on casual-game site

Boasting of angel investors like Ron Conway, the casual gaming site Challenge Games is now crowing in delight as Sequoia Capital has invested $4.5 Million into the company. Challenge Games is aiming to 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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Glum VCs mull over the startup horizon

The startup crisis (hey, didn't you know there was one?) is growing larger. On the heels of the recent spate of news that exits are going south and there was not a single IPO in the last quarter, VCs more...
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Do you a-Spire.com?

Ooooh, here comes another social networking site that caters to the rich - Boston based startup Spire.com is now competing against the likes of DiamondLounge and aSmallWorld to gather eyeballs - well, more...
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Mippin Promises to Bring the Web to Mobiles

Half a million users and a name change from Refresh Mobile, London based startup Mippin is promising the moon - bringing the web to the mobile phones. Judy Gibbons, the new CEO thinks that Mippin has more...
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iYomu: A Social Network for Old People, Expired

At one time, it was agreed upon by all (the pundits) that vertical social networks is the way to go and iYomu focused on it, winning some degree of eyeballs and visitors. Yet, it failed and Richard MacManus more...
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