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Magma acquires analog IP specialist Sabio Labs

Mountain View based Sabio Labs is being acquired for its analog IP by Magma Design Automation. In a way, this was expected because after Magma settled its long pending patent disputes with Synopsys by more...
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Another Twitter For Pictures Twitxr is

Fon company founder Martin Varsavsky has announced that his company which has built the largest WiFi community is now coming out with a new offering - Twitter with pictures or video and thus enters the more...
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VentureBeat lists 10 CleanTech startups looking for funding

From the annual CleanTech Forum in San Francisco, VentureBeat has made a nice list of 10 startups looking for funding: PVT Solar, Intrago, Sorbent Technologies, MicroPlanet, Hybra-Drive Systems, Industrial more...
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Startup Jaxtr Ends Beta, Begins Selling Ads

Raising eyebrows and inviting scepticism that it has 10 million users, social voice service provider Jaxtr says that it has ended its Beta program and is now beginning to sell advertisements to embark more...
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Yelp Raises $15 Million Fourth Round, Valuation $200 Million?

Started in 2004, based in San Francisco, local guide and review site Yelp is going into its fourth round of funding boasting some impressive numbers: 8.3 million uniques in the past 30 days and over 2.3 more...
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Mixx, the Digg competitor raises $2 Million

Intersouth Partners is pumping in another $2 Million into Mixx, which lets you submit stories, vote on your favorite submissions, add your own comments, and see the most popular stories on the site’s more...
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Morph - a nanotechnology concept device launched by Nokia and U of Cambridge

Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes. It demonstrates the more...
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Getty Images Is Selling To PE Firm Hellman & Friedman For $2.4 Billion

Selling itself for a 39% premium over its Friday stock price, Getty, based in Seattle, was founded in 1995, has grown through a series of acquisitions...it says it has 4 million monthly unique visitors more...
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Totally Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

Chris Anderson brings a fascinating account of how businesses have evolved over the ages, starting with the story of Gillette to where it is going now - towards free services and new models of monetizing more...
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Startup provides Venture Capital Wear

Josh Kopelman, Managing Director of First Round Capital shares this funny one about a company that provides speciality wear for VCs - check out their site for really funny T-shirts that say what the VCs more...
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