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ShareThis To Buy Fellow Widget Maker madKast

The TechStars Demo Day has produced the third acquisition from the event. ShareThis, which recently closed a round of $15 Million in funding is acquiring fellow widget maker madKast for an undisclosed more...
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GreenVolts Gets $30 Million for Utility Project

Winner of the 2006 California Clean Tech Open, raised $10 million in Series A fund from Greenlight Energy Resources and Avista and has now raised another $30 Million in Series B funding to build large more...
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Startup Aricent Gets $60M to design Phones

Palo Alto based startup Aricent, which spun off from Flextronics and boasts of Frog Design as its component, has secured funding of $60M to design cool phones, from Bahrain-based investment fund The Family more...
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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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C'mon, Leave Wall Street, Join A Startup

Fred Wilson, a VC with Union Square Ventures writes about his friends at the VC firm First Round Capital who have launched a website for the woes on the Wall Street, to quit and join a startup. more...
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Google is buying Valve

Valve, which has the best content distribution platform, compared to all its competitors is being acquired for its cool product Steam, by Google who is fast becoming the 8000-pound gorilla in this market. more...
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Startup Achronix sampling 1.5GHz FPGA chips

San Jose based startup company is making a second attempt to bring fast asynchronous FPGA chips to the market, beyond the reach of Xilinx, Altera and other players. The company is one of a growing group more...
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5 AlwaysOn Green Startups to Watch

SuperBulbs, BioFuelBox, Sway, ReVolt and Integrity Block are the five AlwaysOn green companies to watch says the Earth2Tech division of Gigaom. They bring interesting alternatives to well, alternative more...
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Best Buy To Buy Napster For $121 Million

This story of Shawn Fanning has a twist now - Best Buy is buying Napster for $121 Million. But in fact, Best Buy is actually paying only $54 Million if you take into account the cash and short-term investments 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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