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Motorola buys Soundbuzz to bolster music offerings

Soundbuzz is a tiny company that provides mobile downloads based on OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) DRM (digital rights management) technology. In an effort to strengthen its music offerings to customers, more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

Sermo.com’s $26.7M Prescription

Sermo which provides physicians a way to tap into the wisdom of crowds has got a new influx of funding. more...
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Ooma Makes a long distance calls free

A startup, well funded and with beta's out already - making the world more connected with their hardware. more...
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Docstoc Bags Series A Round

Docstoc, the YouTube for documents has raised its Series A round of funding. more...
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Automattic acquires Gravatar

The online avatar company that allows you to have a portable avatar of yourself whereever you move on the web, has been acquired by Automattic for an undisclosed amount. Gravatar says it will offer all more...
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Forget Paper and Sign Contracts Online With Tractis

Tractis, which recently came out of private beta, allows you to negotiate and execute worldwide legally binding contracts online. Tractis’ focus is making e-commerce more safe by providing not only digital more...
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Why Telecom is not for Startups and Entrepreneurs

Brian McConnell shares his insights on this topic from his rich experience. He says that some combination of distribution problems and consumer apathy will kill most of the current crop of telecom startups. more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Lessons  |  

The Great Inventors Often Were Neither Great, Nor Inventors

Mike Masnick walks one through this maze again - he explores, explains and expounds on the differences between invention, innovation and the fact that most of the well-known names from history books were more...
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WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M

Om Malik said today that Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic and creator of open-source blogging system WordPress released details of a big round of funding led by True Ventures. The New York Times more...
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Corporate Acquirers files for $100 million IPO

Chief Executive G. Richard Thoman, who was CEO at Xerox Corp is leading the $100 Million IPO filing by the blank check company Corporate Acquirers. Deutsche Bank Securities and Pali Capital Inc are underwritin more...
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