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Spot Runner Raises Another $51M

Allen & Company, Battery Ventures, Capital Research and Management, CBS, Index Ventures, The Interpublic Group, Tudor Investment Corporation, and WPP were joined by Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), more...
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CleanTech venture Mascoma gets $81 Million

VCs are pouring it on - tons of money into CleanTech startups with big deals: Range, Mascoma, Coskata and others are all racing to raise huge amounts in an attempt to bring the world’s first full-scale more...
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Signing Off, And What Does A Blogger Actually Use?

Duncan Riley, the veteran expert on Australian politics and well known blogger, extremely prolific at TechCrunch is quitting after exactly one year. He bids adieu and in his final post, he shares the more...
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Microsoft acquires Farecast

Seattle based online travel website Farecast has been acquired by the Seattle based giant Microsoft for a cool $100 Million or so. Madrona Venture Group, Par Capital Management, Greylock Partners and more...
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Social Network clutter? Try Yoono

Josh Lowensohn writes his review about a new service designed to integrate your social networking stuff: Yoono offers a browser add-on for discovering and sharing Web content is launching several new features more...
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Startup Fididel offers live online auctions

Hal Wendell, CEO and founder of Fididel says that he was fed up of losing the bids on the current auction sites like eBay and others and therefore decided to create one of his own so that he could participate more...
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Startup GodTube Gets $30 Million Funding

Startup GodTube was launched in summer last year in Dallas, and has since been among the fastest growing websites online...it now says it has about 2 million users a month. It got a whopping funding of more...
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StartupCamp 5 in SF This Weekend

Sun Microsystems is rolling on with its StartupCamp series, hosting the latest one (the fifth) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Jonathan Schwartz the CEO kicked it off on Sunday, 4 May with the more...
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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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Cox to buy online Ad Network Adify For $300 Million

Check out the convergence happenings. Cox Communication Enterprises is putting down a hefty $300 Million to buy out the online advertising network company Adify. Adify is actually a company that provides more...
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