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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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20Q For The Venture Capitalists At TechCrunch50

The event TechCrunch50 had a panel of VCs on the stage and Erick Schonfeld and Mark Pincus came up with 20 top questions submitted by the audience to ask of these VCs - they ranged from the expected to more...
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SOASTA Raises $6.4M for Testing in Cloud Computing

Mountain View based, three-year old software testing start-up company SOASTA, has raised $6.4 Million in Series B financing from Formative Ventures, Canaan Partners and The Entrepreneur’s Fund, bringing more...
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Start-Up Seeks to Put 3 Billion on the Net

O3b Networks Ltd., founded and run by 38-year-old telecommunications entrepreneur Greg Wyler, is expected to announce plans to launch as many as 16 satellites that could provide service to Africa, the more...
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Wireless startup Unicel launches Sao Paulo service

Brazil based wireless startup Unicel do Brasil Telecomunicacoes (Unicel) is launching the start of its new service in the 900MHz band in Sao Paulo. This band adds to its existing portfolio of 30MHz bandwidth more...
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Joost To End Desktop Client Version

After raising a whopping $45 Million in VC money, after luring away Cisco executive Mike Volpi to become the CEO, Joost the startup founded by the Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström seems more...
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iSkoot acquires Social.IM

VoIP provider and a startup iSkoot, who has friendly ties with carriers because it uses their networks for completion of its calls, is acquiring the social networking based IM provider Social.IM for an more...
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Promising once, startup Bungee Labs In A Freefall

At one time they had 38 employees and seemed so promising, but now they just laid off 15 employees to just stretch that dollar a little more. Competing with others like DabbleDB, Zoho Creator, LongJump, more...
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