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Fred Says We Need A New Path To Liquidity

Fred Wilson has come out with a blog post that is rocking the blogosphere saying that the big giants (Yahoo, Google, News Corp, etc) are treating the internet assets like toys while smaller services like more...
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Navini Networks got bought by Cisco for $330 million in cash

Cisco buys Navini Networks for $330 million and gets in to the WiMAX game. Their is a great pant-up demand in the developing countries for WiMAX. With this acquisition Cisco will compete with Motorola more...
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How to be a hi-tech start-up success

Last FM's status as a start-up officially ended in May 2007 when it was bought for £140m by CBS Interactive - the net arm of the music giant. more...
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Aircent acquires DataLinx for $30 million

New York based consulting firm DataLinx was acquired for a nice $30million by the US Software company Aircent. more...
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Dell's acquisition EqualLogic may not be fun for EMC

Storage brings in about $2.4 billion a year for Dell, much of it from the resale of devices made by EMC Corp. (EMC). In other words, despite making a lot of sales, Dell doesn’t get a bigger piece of more...
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Source Says: $1 billion Acquisition “Definitely Happened”

Michael Arrington follows up his previous story on Bebo. He says that Bebo, which is the second largest social network in the UK behind Facebook, either signed a deal, or is sending out false messages more...
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Acquisition: Twhirling Seesmic's Underweb

Ross Mayfield shares his wisdom on the latest buzz on the acquisition drama that is unfolding (first revealed by TechCrunch): Seesmic of San Francisco has acquired the Twitter client Twhirl and thus makes more...
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Is Digg wooing the Guardian for an acquisition?

After Guardian acquired PaidContent last week for $30 Million, there are very strong rumors floating around that Digg is looking to the Guardian as a possible buyer. The startup has been in the news and more...
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