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Microsoft
Paul Graham hammers home a vital point - why one should start your own venture in a bad economy - providing compelling reasons and history lessons to prove his point. The economy has some effect, certainly, more...
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Topic: Startup Lessons
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Jitendra
83 days ago (paulgraham.com)
Portuguese based mobile back up and application services company MobiComp has been acquired by the Redmond giant for an undisclosed amount. While it seems to fit well into their Windows Mobile strategy, more...
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Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions
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Jitendra
195 days ago (informationweek.com)
Seattle based online travel website Farecast has been acquired by the Seattle based giant Microsoft for a cool $100 Million or so. Madrona Venture Group, Par Capital Management, Greylock Partners and more...
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Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions
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Jitendra
265 days ago (blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com)
Matt Asay waxes eloquent on the new AJAX-style no browser offering from Zimbra and says that it offers everything that Microsoft Outlook could never dream up of providing. And, hey cheerup, it also provides more...
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Topic: Online Apps and Widgets
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Jitendra
329 days ago (blogs.cnet.com)
Danger, the backer of Sidekick (which uses T-Mobile as the carrier) and which has raised $142 Million so far in funding, and which was planning to file for a $100 Million IPO, and which was losing money more...
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Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions
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Jitendra
332 days ago (paidcontent.org)
In December, Microsoft bought Multimap, which also became a wholly owned subsidiary and works with the Virtual Earth and Search groups. Multimap develops online mapping services and now it has bought Caligari, more...
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Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions
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Jitendra
335 days ago (infoworld.com)
UStream, which focuses more on broadcasts of events, rather than lifecasts -- extremely boring 24/7 video streams of people's lives, is reportedly negotiating a $50 Million dollar sale to Microsoft. Microsoft more...
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Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions
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Jitendra
335 days ago (valleywag.com)
Technology start-ups are sprouting all around in Seattle with Google opening its second campus. “The Seattle start-up ecosystem is vibrant, and growing rapidly,” said Oren Etzioni, an artificial-intelligen more...
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Topic: Startup Help
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Jitendra
335 days ago (nytimes.com)
Bringing 30 new startups into its fold, Microsoft is aggresively expanding its Startup Accelerator Program so that it can shepherd enough to bring out at least some successful competition to the likes more...
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Topic: Startup Help
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Jitendra
350 days ago (webpronews.com)
Bruce Jaffe, a top corporate-development Microsoft executive who helped engineer its $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive and its $240 million investment in Facebook, is leaving the company to start his more...
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Topic: Startup Founders
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Jitendra
364 days ago (valleywag.com)
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