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Is Federated Media worth $200 Million?

Rumors are swirling around that Federated Media has raised $50 Million from Oak Hill Capital Partners which effectively has boosted the valuation of the company to $200 Million. Eric Eldon says that the more...
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Acquisition: Twhirling Seesmic's Underweb

Ross Mayfield shares his wisdom on the latest buzz on the acquisition drama that is unfolding (first revealed by TechCrunch): Seesmic of San Francisco has acquired the Twitter client Twhirl and thus makes more...
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Windsor Energy Abandons I.P.O. Plans

Oklahoma City-based oil and natural gas discovery and development company Windsor Energy has decided to shelve its $175 Million IPO plans in the light of the current economic scene and that is definitely more...
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EXFO acquires Builds With Brix Networks

Ambitious test equipment company EXFO has big plans. Barely a week after acquiring Navtel, it is now moving on to acquire Brix Networks that specializes in IPTV testing and the shopping actually fits more...
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Meet Startup Onzo the iPod of Cleantech

UK based startup is coming with cool designs to manage the energy of your home. Sigma Capital Group and Scottish and Southern Energy, each of whom put up £1 million and a company representative to sit more...
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More dough on the Venture Capital scene

Dow Jones VentureSource says that there were only six IPOs and far fewer M&A deals than in any quarter last year, which paints a pretty dismal picture for the startups in any region. The economic woes more...
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Voice search startup Vlingo gets $20M and a Yahoo Deal !

Trying desperately to become one-up on competition (nee Google), Yahoo is bolstering its mobile oneSearch program by teaming up with voice search startup Vlingo exclusively to offer this on about 600 Million more...
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Startup Nanosolar Raises $50M More

With swirling rumors that Nanosolar is looking at a post-money evaluation of about $2 Billion, this company has raised another round of robust funding of $50 Million from French investor/company EDF Energies more...
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4 Startups: Taking the Pulse of the Twittersphere

Josh Catone examines four startups that are trying to build off the success of Twitter and provides their pluses and minuses. These are: Twitter Census, Twitter Answers, Straw Poll and TwittPoll. So, more...
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VCs slowing down?

Inspite of a one-day sunshine and smiles in Wall Street that the economic woes are over, it appears that the VCs are heading for the cellars and things do not look good for the startup community. This more...
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