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Mapping the Startups in Portland

Sam Churchill provides an insight into the promising startups in the Portland area: Platial, Knitmap, SocialMap, Mapdango, WeoGeo, TwitterLocal and a short sweet summary of what each one does. Thus, the more...
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SugarSync Offers A Good Method for Replicating Files

A Silicon Valley company called Sharpcast is offering something really useful and badly needed, inspite of so many others offering something on the same lines. It offers a great method for syncing all more...
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Startup American Defense Systems gets $15 Million

American Defense Systems, which offers advanced solutions in the design, fabrication and installation of transparent and opaque armor, security doors, windows and curtain wall systems, has secured funding more...
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Analysis of How Yahoo! buying IndexTools changes Web Analytics

Eric T. Peterson, who has been working in web analytics for over ten years provides his analysis of the Yahoo shopping; Yahoo bought IndexTools to boost its Web Analytics kitty and shore up against the more...
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Richrelevance gets another round of funding

Richrelevance is a San Francisco based recommendation search engine that is aiming to get your attention. The latest round of funding of $4.2 Million was provided by Greylock Partners and Tugboat Ventures. more...
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How to Launch a Startup easily

In order to help fledgling startups to launch more easily Google launched App Engine, which lets you write code for a web application, then Google takes care of the scaling/failover/logistics-type issues. more...
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15 Algae Startups Bringing Fuel from Pond Scum

Katie Fehrenbacher bring this story of 15 algae based biofuel startups that may not be hogging the headlines. These include: Solazyme, GreenFuel Technologies, Blue Marble Energy, Inventure Chemical, Solena, more...
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Chris Pirillo Starts Large Community CMS Project

Aiming to 'de-geekify' website tools and make them easier to use, Chris Pirillo is starting a new large scale community CMS project which will be based on the open source Drupal framework. He said, “The more...
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Startup Elastra Takes On-Demand Computing Further

San Francisco based startup Elastra is taking the needs of On-Demand computing one step further. It is powered by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and is led by the CEO Kirill Sheynkman to provide the more...
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Canadian media company buys Y Combinator Startup

Communicate.com, a Canadian company that owns about 800 domain names including Perfume.com and Cricket.com, is expected to relaunch itself on Wednesday as Live Current Media, with plans to become a network more...
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