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Startup BubbleMotion gets $14 Million in funding

Startup BubbleMotion which claims to have more than 135 Million users worldwide (unconfirmed) is getting $14 Million in funding from existing investors Sequoia Capital, Comcast Interactive Capital and more...
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Examining Layoffs 3.0: Big vs, Small, Start Up vs. Your Own

After Yahoo, Susan Mernit examines the question of whether one should start his/her own startup or join a startup. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and why would one work in more...
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Startup Glassdoor.com Takes In $3 Million Series B

Benchmark Capital has invested $3 Million in Series B funding in Sausalito based startup Glassdoor.com. Interestingly, CEO and Founder Robert Hohman was previously the President of Hotwire.com, and the more...
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Green Car Startups Fight Detroit Over Cali Policy

Katie Fehrenbacher provides a front side view of the ensuing battle between the green car makers and the 800-pound gorillas of the automobile industry over the California state policies, especially the more...
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Phoenix Technologies Acquires BeInSync for $25M

Four and a half year old Israeli startup BeInSync that provides software for the synchronization of files across computers and access them while on the road, has been acquired by Phoenix Technologies for more...
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Startup Stretch get second round of funding

Riding on the security wave, Stretch has bagged its second round of funding of $15 million from its second round of venture capital from Worldview Technology Partners, Oak Investment Partners, and Menlo more...
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LimeWire digital music store launched

LimeWire has launched as partially legitimate at least providing music downloads as 256kbps MP3 files. Pricing is $.99 for a single track. Or you can get 25 downloads per month for $9.99, 50 for $14.99 more...
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Startup Disqus Gets VC Funding

New York City-based VC Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures), along with well-known angel investors Naval Ravikant, Howard Lindzon and ex-Googler Aydin Senkut are putting in half a million dollars in Disqus more...
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VoloMedia - Menlo Park startup raises $3.5 Million

Volomedia, an advertising and measurement company, based in Menlo Park has taken another round of funding. It has already taken in $18.5 Million previously from Sutter Hill Ventures, Mayfield and Worldview more...
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Bloggers are raising money and eyebrows

Caution: A nice long post by Michael Arrington about bloggers raising money and how the landscape could shape up. Just a month ago VentureBeat reported a $320,000 raise. In 2007 we saw Sugar Inc. ($10 more...
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