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M&A Scene shows a decline in 2008

Dealwatch says that executives at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Inc. and Bank of America Corp. estimate that M&A could fall as much as 20% in 2008 from a record $3.9 trillion this year, according more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

Start-Up Nanosolar Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost

Focusing on lowering manufacturing costs in CleanTech, Nanosolar which has raised $150 million and built a 200,000-square-foot factory here, is developing a new manufacturing process that “prints” more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Clean Tech  |  

Startup Review - CollegeSpeaks, Yulop, Ubona

3 startups are reviewed in this post. CollegeSpeaks enables colleges to quickly create mini-sites, add-edit content, list program information, faculty information, infrastructure etc. Ubona is a Bangalore more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Stories  |  

Juice Wireless, into mobile content sharing, gets more funding

Investment company 21Ventures led a round of funding (about $6 Million) into Juice Wireless, a company that lets you send photos, videos and other content to your social network pages from your mobile more...
2 Comments  |  Topic: Funding Announcement  |  

Ideeli - It's Woot.com meets 'The Devil Wears Prada'

Ideeli is an invite-only site that hosts high-speed sales of luxury goods (so far, just accessories) at 50 to 90 percent discounts and keeps its members in the loop through e-mail and mobile alerts to more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: E-Commerce  |  

LiveGamer - Startup creates market for trade of virtual goods

Live Gamer is working with Sony Corp.'s Sony Online Entertainment division, Funcom GmbH, Ping0 Interactive Ltd. and other online-game operators to create an online trading place for virtual goods - an more...
2 Comments  |  Topic: Online Games  |  

Will it fly? Evaluating a New Product Idea

Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter and a veteran entrepreneur provides deep insight into evaluating product ideas in this post and analyzes the idea in terms of: Tractability, Obviousness, Deepness, more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Lessons  |  

Ribbit debuts as “Silicon Valley’s phone company”

A Mountain View company that is billing itself as “Silicon Valley’s phone company,” is making it easy to embed web phones in just about any kind of web site, blog, or social networking page. So, more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Gadgets and Tools  |  

Why Dyslexics Make Great Entrepreneurs

A fascinating story that focuses on why Dyslexics make Great Entrepreneurs - Their ability to grasp the big picture, persistence, and creativity are a few of the entrepreneurial traits of many dyslexics. more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Founders  |  

Mobile shopping start-up Digby bags BlackBerry deal

Just in time for the holiday shopping, the mobile shopping startup Digby which is based in Austin, Texas, has snagged a very good deal with the 800-pound gorilla of enterprise communication Blackberry more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Advertising  |