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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  |  

Search Start-Up Cuil Launches -- Can It Really Beat Google?

Boasting of four areas: Big web index, Unique relevance algorithm, Unique results display and Privacy, Cuil (pronounced "cool") has come out its stealth mode and is taking on the giant Google. The blogosphere more...
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Online advertising: 5 key trends for ad-based startups

Andrew Chen expounds his theory about online advertising during recessionary times and summarizes the five key trends for ad-based startups. Of course, it includes some already known facts like acceleration more...
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PowerGenix Demos its Battery in a Prius

San Diego, California based eight year old startup PowerGenix has just now demonstrated its first battery pack for a Toyota Prius. PowerGenix says its nickel-zinc battery is 35 percent smaller than the more...
2 Comments  |  Topic: Clean Tech  |  

Lessons Shared by Zoho Creator Pricing

Zoho is being frank and open in sharing what it calls its own strategic pricing bungle and is explaining what went into this decision making and what steps were taken that lead it to go off the success more...
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Shared database MetaWeb gets $42M funding

MetaWeb is a San Francisco based startup company that has just gotten another round of funding from Benchmark Capital and Goldman Sachs to further its open shared database to share, edit and store the more...
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Ethanol Startup Coskata Launches out of stealth

Coskata, a startup and a partnership with General Motors, along with investments from GM, Khosla Ventures, Advanced Technology Ventures and Great Point Ventures has come out of stealth mode and has announced more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Clean Tech  |  

LogMeIn Files for a $86M IPO

LogMeIn, the Woburn, Mass.-based startup company reported a loss of $6.5 million on sales of a mere $18.1 million for the nine months ending Sept. 2007, but its growth is strong and is now filing for an more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: IPO  |  

Plaxo And Facebook Merger Rumors False (So Far)

Oooh. Michael Arrington says that the brouhaha over Facebook buying Plaxo is all false so far and that even though Plaxo is up for sale (since quite some time actually), this deal is not exactly history. more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

Earth Class Mail gets $13.3M to turn snail mail to e-mail

Earth Class Mail, which is based in Seattle operates post office boxes around the country. It offers its services to both individuals and businesses, for a monthly fee. The $13.3 million first round funding more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Services  |