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VC Report: funding up, cleantech and life sciences strong

The MoneyTree Report is out: VCs tossed $7 billion at startups in the fourth quarter, a solid 12 percent rise over the same quarter last year, according to data published by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the more...
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Finam Puts $30 Million in Social Network Badoo in Russia

Russian financial group Finam got a 10% stake in Badoo, which is a social networking site with photo and video sharing features. It has 12.7 million registered accounts, mostly in Latin America and Continental more...
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Getty Images Up For Sale; Could Fetch $1.5 Billion

Getty Images, based in Seattle, founded in 1995, is the world’s biggest supplier of stock pictures and video (and increasingly a digital player) has put itself on the auction block and could fetch more more...
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Internet co-founder gets $12M more for a “flow-based” router

Larry Roberts, the co-founder of Internet has raised about $12 Million for his startup Anagran. His previous company, Caspian, burned through $317 million in venture capital from firms like US Venture more...
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Indian Power IPO Cleans Up

Reliance Power went IPO on the Bombay Stock Exchange and can you believe this - the entire 228 million-share offering sold out in a single minute –with most shares going at about 450 rupees ($11.50) more...
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Sun Buys MySQL

Sun is acquiring open source database company MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and assumed stock options. MySQL is used by many of the web's largest companies, including YouTube, Facebook, and Wikipedia, more...
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Euro VCs Report Flurry of Online Deals

Index Ventures and Atlas Ventures have reported a flurry of new deals in the funding business. It includes a number of startup companies being funded such as Zoopla (algorithm for analysing data relating more...
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Scoble Going To Fast Company

Duncan Riley reaffirms the earlier TechCrunch breaking news that well known video blogger Robert Scoble will be building an army of Scoble-show style clones into a new Fast Company business video blogging more...
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Morgan Stanley Takes Stake in Cleantech Firm NGEN

Calling its investment “the first by a major Wall Street firm in a clean technology venture firm”, Investment Bank Morgan Stanley has taken a stake in the Cleantech sector by aligning with NGEN Partners more...
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Plaxo And Facebook Merger Rumors False (So Far)

Oooh. Michael Arrington says that the brouhaha over Facebook buying Plaxo is all false so far and that even though Plaxo is up for sale (since quite some time actually), this deal is not exactly history. more...
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