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Facebook Is Now 5th Most Valuable U.S. Internet Company

Microsoft invested $240 million into Facebook, valuing the company at $15 billion. They are now positioned with a huge war chest of cash. more...

Discuss | Topic: Funding Announcement | by Vic 441 days ago (techcrunch.com)

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Internet Infrastructure - Web 2.0 needs more reliability

All the startups in Web 2.0 space end-up hosting their apps in one of the datacenters with one of the internet services providers. The recent RackSpace outage shows the need for creating more robust and more...

Discuss | Topic: Online Apps and Widgets | by Vic 422 days ago (radar.oreilly.com)

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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...

Discuss | Topic: Funding Announcement | by Jitendra 356 days ago (venturebeat.com)

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Wherigo lets anyone build games

Wherigo lets anyone build games (or tour guides or local reviews or real estate apps) using the Lua programming language. The games can be tied to a specific location or they can be "play anywhere". The more...

Discuss | Topic: Video Games | by Vic 343 days ago (radar.oreilly.com)

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BT buys Ribbit and guns for Android and Skype

Billing itself as Silicon Valley's first internet phone company, Ribbit's chief Ted Griggs is a happy man. BT is buying this startup for about $105 Million and Ribbit is all happy and gushing at this more...

1 Comment | Topic: VoIP | by Jitendra 163 days ago (news.zdnet.co.uk)

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Startup cleans the Internet

ReputationDefender, CEO Michael Fertik said he launched the company almost two years ago because of how easy it is to tarnish people's reputation on the Internet. more...

Discuss | Topic: Search | by Vic 164 days ago (redwoodcitydailynews.com)