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Range Fuels Raises $100M funding

A next generation ethanol plant Range Fuels has reportedly raised a whopping $100 Million in funding. This round was led by $25 million from an undisclosed energy investor, and that existing investor more...
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Startup eASIC gets big funding

Ronnie Vasistha, the President and CEO announced that startup eASIC Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.), a provider of structured ASICs, on Thursday (March 13) announced it has raised a whopping $48 million in more...
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Credit crunch hits startups?

It has been learned that Comerica bank has frozen the money market accounts of venture backed startup companies as the credit crunch hits Silicon Valley. Venture Wire is reporting on an informal survey more...
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Is AOL Buying KickApps Too?

After its recent shopping of Bebo, is AOL buying the white-lable social software company KickApps is the question. KickApps, based in New York, has raised $17 million from Softbank Capital, Prism VentureWorks more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

Qualcomm buys Xiam

Looking into targeted advertising, Qualcomm has paid $32 Million for data-gathering outfit Xiam. The Irish company specialises in analysing the habits of mobile phone users in order to target advertising more...
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ShareThis Raises $15 Million in funding

ShareThis is the brainchild of Alex King, a well known developer in the Wordpress community. Tim Schigel, who was a partner at Blue Chip Venture Company led the initial investment in the company also became more...
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AOL to acquire Bebo for $850 Million

Founded in 2005, with 40 million subscribers worldwide and being the third largest social networking site after MySpace and Facebook, Bebo has been acquired by AOL in a juicy cash deal of $850 Million more...
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VCs: Like Your Mother Without the Hugs

Stacey Higginbotham is going into some interesting details shared anonymously by a NVCA member about the results of research conducted by Research Data Technology on VCs and how they are perceived by entreprene more...
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