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Mayfield Ventures collects $395 Million

A dot-com juggernaut Venture Capital company Mayfield Ventures has an accumulated fund of $395 Million to spend investing in startups. Even the departure of one of its biggest stars - Kevin Fong does more...
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100 Closed Beta Invites for Startup Newz readers (limit 100)

We're trying to open up the world of internet radio and would like to invite Startup Newz to give us a test drive. You can sign up at the link with this post and use the following invite code: startupnewz. more...
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VC Scoreboard: Cleantech shines bright

The 2007 edition of the EETimes Venture Capital Scoreboard is revealing that the $2.6 Billion of VC investment in 168 transactions shows the spotlight on the current darling of VCs: Cleantech and photovoltaics more...
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ShareThis To Buy Fellow Widget Maker madKast

The TechStars Demo Day has produced the third acquisition from the event. ShareThis, which recently closed a round of $15 Million in funding is acquiring fellow widget maker madKast for an undisclosed more...
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Startup Aricent Gets $60M to design Phones

Palo Alto based startup Aricent, which spun off from Flextronics and boasts of Frog Design as its component, has secured funding of $60M to design cool phones, from Bahrain-based investment fund The Family more...
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Gay Social Networking Site Gays.com Kicks Off Open Beta

What's been called the world's first gay social network for real names and real-world connections has been launched. The domain name was bought in 2006 at the price of US$500,000. more...
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eBay Trying To Sell Off StumbleUpon

This is actually Mike Arrington story, but Peter Kafka asks a good question here. After buying the website recommendation engine StumbleUpon for a crazy $75 Million, eBay is now trying to sell it off. more...
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C'mon, Leave Wall Street, Join A Startup

Fred Wilson, a VC with Union Square Ventures writes about his friends at the VC firm First Round Capital who have launched a website for the woes on the Wall Street, to quit and join a startup. more...
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Google is buying Valve

Valve, which has the best content distribution platform, compared to all its competitors is being acquired for its cool product Steam, by Google who is fast becoming the 8000-pound gorilla in this market. more...
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Startup Achronix sampling 1.5GHz FPGA chips

San Jose based startup company is making a second attempt to bring fast asynchronous FPGA chips to the market, beyond the reach of Xilinx, Altera and other players. The company is one of a growing group more...
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