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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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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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Gay Social Networking Site Gays.com Kicks Off Open Beta

What's been called the world's first gay social network for real names and real-world connections has been launched. The domain name was bought in 2006 at the price of US$500,000. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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