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Yahoo to outsource Messenger phone calls to startup Jajah

Startup Jajah is in the news. Jajah will connect the calls to and from users of Yahoo Messenger and handle billing and customer care; so, Yahoo is outsourcing this part completely to Jajah which is a more...
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Changing Startup Culture: Ning, Twitter Viral VC Ventures

Donna Bogatin writes that of the Ning assumption that visions of fast-growing, highly scalable, multi-billion dollar viral (not so serendipitous) hits must be highly financed if the end-game of a lucrative more...
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Startup RightScale Takes $4.5M for the Cloud

Benchmark Capital has invested a neat $4.5 M into the Santa Barbara based startup RightScale which focuses on bringing cloud computing into the enterprise world. CEO Michael Crandell thinks that RightScale more...
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TheStreet.com invests in Geezeo

The online money management tool Geezeo has given away 13% of its ownership to TheStreet.com with an option to buy it out completely at a later stage if TheStreet.com thinks so. With its "Educated Financial more...
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Slideshare: A VC looks at it

Fred Wilson, a VC who blogs has given his inputs and shared his experience with the startup Slideshare which converts your Powerpoint presentation into Flash, but seems to take a really long time to do more...
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Osteologix completes $5.3 Million in private placement financing

San Francisco based Osteologix has completed a round of private placement financing of the amount of $5.3 Million. It sold 4,030,304 shares of its common stock at $1.32 per share, and warrants to purchase more...
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Apple Buys Chip Designer P A Semi

A boutique microprocessor chip design company with about 150 people was bought by Apple for about $278 Million in cash with the plans of this startup P.A.Semi to design the new chips that Apple needs in more...
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Agassi's new startup: GPS, Cell-phone Plans and Speedy Battery Exchange

Shai Agassi the ex-number two at SAP is on a roll with his Project Better Place project which is very well funded and plans to build a complete infrastructure to support clean technologies through your more...
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Guess the 9 People You Meet at Y Combinator

Larry Chiang, the founder of duck9 writes about the 9 different types of people you will meet at Y Combinator and what you can really learn from each of them. It includes our favorite: DDSS stands for more...
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Startup CrossLoop comes out of secret-mode

Claiming more than 5000 users now, CrossLoop is a startup that has come out of its stealth mode. It allows two people to share their computer desktops, has launched an online marketplace where you can more...
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