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Genoptix soars on IPO

Genoptix, the life sciences company has seen big rewards on the first day after its IPO, shooting up 53% at the end of the day. Lehman Brothers Inc. served as lead underwriter, with Banc of America Securities more...
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Iron Mountain to buy Stratify for $158 million

Iron Mountain Inc is buying the e-discovery provider Stratify for $158 Million in cash. Based in Mountain View, Calif., Stratify's e-discovery technology provides services to help law firms and corporations more...
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TechMeme gets competition from NYTimes

The New York Times has quietly released BlogRunner, as part of its updated Technology section offering. BlogRunner used to be a competitor to TechMeme and thus this brings the competition back to the more...
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Dell to Buy EqualLogic for $1.4B

In an effort to strengthen its storage and pre-installed virtualization space, Dell has paid $1.4 Billion to buy storage startup EqualLogic. This deal marks the culmination of the efforts of the search more...
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FireEagle - A Platform Service For Geo Information From Yahoo

Built entirely on Ruby on Rails, Salim Ismail’s Brickhouse is announcing a very useful new platform service tonight called the FireEagle, which is a platform service for Geo information. It is a platform more...
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5 New Companies emerge from Diller's IAC

Barry Diller's IAC is spinning off 5 new publicly traded companies (HSN, TicketMaster, ...). Its other assets — including the Ask.com search engine, Match.com, Evite, Citysearch and Excite — would more...
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Web 2.0 On The Ropes. . . Kleiner Perkins Halts Investments

Tom Foremski writes that Kleiner Perkins has stopped investing in Web 2.0 and that the word now has negative vibes in the VC community. "We have absolutely no interest in funding Web 2.0 companies," says more...
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Meet Potential Lovers using CrazyBlindDate

After beta testing in Austin for over a month, CrazyBlindDate is offering in three cities - Boston, San Francisco and New York city. Bringing the concept of blind date to the web, it offers privacy and 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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How creativity is being strangled by the law (video)

The inimitable Larry Lessig is very eloquent in this video, where he talks and explains how the law is strangling creativity. Larry, a Stanford professor is one of the world's leading authorities on copyright more...
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