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Credit crunch hits startups?

It has been learned that Comerica bank has frozen the money market accounts of venture backed startup companies as the credit crunch hits Silicon Valley. Venture Wire is reporting on an informal survey more...
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15 Algae Startups Bringing Fuel from Pond Scum

Katie Fehrenbacher bring this story of 15 algae based biofuel startups that may not be hogging the headlines. These include: Solazyme, GreenFuel Technologies, Blue Marble Energy, Inventure Chemical, Solena, more...
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Green Car Startups Fight Detroit Over Cali Policy

Katie Fehrenbacher provides a front side view of the ensuing battle between the green car makers and the 800-pound gorillas of the automobile industry over the California state policies, especially the more...
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4 Startups: Taking the Pulse of the Twittersphere

Josh Catone examines four startups that are trying to build off the success of Twitter and provides their pluses and minuses. These are: Twitter Census, Twitter Answers, Straw Poll and TwittPoll. So, more...
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Mapping the Startups in Portland

Sam Churchill provides an insight into the promising startups in the Portland area: Platial, Knitmap, SocialMap, Mapdango, WeoGeo, TwitterLocal and a short sweet summary of what each one does. Thus, the more...
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Sharing the News From 5 Solar Startups

Boston based Wakonda Technologies has secured Series A $9.5 Million in funding. Fat Spaniel is working on solar monitoring. Recurrent Energy has raised a big, tidy sum of $75 Million (yes, you got that more...
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Three Lucky Startups Get Free Advertising on Mashable

Is this a gig or a sign of desperation? Mashable, the venerable social something site is offering three lucky startups a dream deal - they will get free advertising on prime property and get a lot of more...
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Event: Dear Detroit, Meet the Startups

San Jose is gearing up for the first plug-in fest for automobiles and it is a hot event - lots of new and old makers are trying to display their wares, including startups like Venture Vehicles, Coulomb more...
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Intel Capital funds three Indian startups

The venture arm of Intel, the chip giant has pumped in $17 Million into funding three startups: Yatra.com which is travel based online service, BuzzInTown.com which is event-based and Emnet Samsara Media more...
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MobileBeat 2008 kicks off for mobile startups to parade

VentureBeat is trying to put its finger in to the hot hot mobile market and trying get a pulse of the plethora of new startups in this space by organizing MobileBeat 2008, their first ever event for mobile more...
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