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Start-Up Seeks to Put 3 Billion on the Net

O3b Networks Ltd., founded and run by 38-year-old telecommunications entrepreneur Greg Wyler, is expected to announce plans to launch as many as 16 satellites that could provide service to Africa, the more...
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SOASTA Raises $6.4M for Testing in Cloud Computing

Mountain View based, three-year old software testing start-up company SOASTA, has raised $6.4 Million in Series B financing from Formative Ventures, Canaan Partners and The Entrepreneur’s Fund, bringing more...
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iSkoot acquires Social.IM

VoIP provider and a startup iSkoot, who has friendly ties with carriers because it uses their networks for completion of its calls, is acquiring the social networking based IM provider Social.IM for an more...
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Joost To End Desktop Client Version

After raising a whopping $45 Million in VC money, after luring away Cisco executive Mike Volpi to become the CEO, Joost the startup founded by the Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström seems more...
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AVA Solar gets massive funding

Ok, compared to the $300 Million funding for Nanosolar, the $110 Million for AVA Solar - the thin film solar startup may not seem much, but think of the zillions of promising startups out there seeking more...
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Promising once, startup Bungee Labs In A Freefall

At one time they had 38 employees and seemed so promising, but now they just laid off 15 employees to just stretch that dollar a little more. Competing with others like DabbleDB, Zoho Creator, LongJump, more...
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Bollywood News, Gossip, Scoops, Movies, Music, Events, Blogs, Wallpapers, Ringtones | Bollyscoops

BollyScoops, is a user driven bollywood community. The users share, comment, vote on bollywood related scoops. The scoops are sorted by popularity based on the votes that our users submit. The "Latest more...
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Agilent spinoff Avago files for IPO

$400 Million - that is the value of the IPO that Avago, the chip spinoff from Agilent is filing for. Originally belonging to HP, spun off as part of Agilent, this division finally came on its own and more...
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Marc Andreessen invests in Qik

Web veteran and Ning co-founder Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have decided to select their horse in the mobile video broadcasting startups - they are investing in Qik which was co-founded by Bhaskar more...
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Photobucket Story: How VC Insiders Made Big Personal Returns

When Fox Interactive Media bought Photobucket last year, IVP founders Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock, who each invested $300,000 into the company and personally made 20 times their money—or $6 million more...
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