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Startup Kango Almost Beta for Vacation Planning

Anne Zelenka talks about Kango - a travel site in 'almost beta' now and which has received a Series A round of funding of $4 million from Shasta Ventures. The company was founded by Yen Lee, former general more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Web 2.0  |  

Solar Startup Stion gets $15 M

A $15 million Series B financing of Stion led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. General Catalyst Partners also participated, as did all three existing investors - Khosla Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Clean Tech  |  

Start-up Florida air-taxi has eye on Orlando

Panama City based startup company Precision Air Charter plans to fly on-demand charter flights on 6-passenger Piper Cheyenne I turboprop planes. It has obtained the necessary permission from the Federal more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Services  |  

Classmates.com IPO Canceled

Citing that “current market conditions would not be in the best interests of its stockholders.” the parent company United Online has pulled its S-1 registration statement (the filing required to go more...
Discuss  |  Topic: IPO  |  

EdgeCast Bags $6 Million

CDNs - Content Distribution Networks are big nowadays. EdgeCast has bagged $6 Million in Series B financing led by Steamboat Ventures, which is affiliated with The Walt Disney Company, bringing their more...
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Feedheads Reaches 10,000 Active Facebook Users

Feedheads, the Facebook application that adds Google Reader shared items to your profile, and displays the most shared items and feeds in a way Google still hasn't figured out how to duplicate, is growing more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Online Apps and Widgets  |  

Zoho lets you take your work Offline

Zoho Writer get the offline editing capability. Zoli is reporting on his blog that this activity has to be a planned activity, since you have to checkout the documents for offline availablity when you more...
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Twenga Gets €2.6 Million For Product Search

Techcrunch is reporting that Twenga raised €2.6 Million in funding. Twenga is a meta search engine for products from online merchants. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Search  |  

Start-up Pay by Touch on the brink of bankruptcy

The company raked in more than $300 million from hedge funds, venture capitalists and wealthy individuals including L.A. billionaire Ron Burkle. But five years down the road, San Francisco-based Pay by more...
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Top Ten Signs That Your Startup is Doomed

The title says it all. Cool list of 10 red signs to look for to check if you are on track. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Startup Help  |