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TasteKid.com - Meet Emmy, The Cute Recommendation Robot

TasteKid is a recommendation engine for music, movies and books. It combines a friendly Web 2.0 interface with powerful innovative learning algorithms in order to achieve its main goal: helping people more...
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EyeFi raises another round of funding

Raising $11 Million in its second round of funding, EyeFi has taken its total investment to $17 Million. The lead investors include Translink Capital and LMS Capital. Existing investors Opus Capital and more...
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DailyCandy acquired by Comcast

Leaving Viacom in the dust and gnashing their teeth, Comcast laughed its way to buying DailyCandy for a cool $125 Million. Bob Pittman's Pilot Group Ventures is getting the bucks for this sale. more...
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What's next for Venture Capital?

Since things have been rather slow on the VC front, IPO market, a lot of theories are going around about what is the next thing for VCs? What are they looking for and where are they willing to put their more...
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Carocean.co.uk - Vehicle search engine - find and buy used and new vehicles

Corocean.co.uk is a service that offers searching and access to advertisements from the most popular moto sites in one place. The highest priority for us was easiness of searching and filtering existing more...
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Nested GUIs

Microspaces has released it's innovative new technology 'Nested GUIs' for public view and comment, as well as private beta signup. Videos are availalbe available that best explain the new category and more...
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RIP: VC Keith Benjamin

Silicon Valley has lost a valuable friend and mentor in the form of VC Keith Benjamin. Still in the prime of his life, Keith suffered from subdural heamatoma, a form of brain injury from which he did more...
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Wanna Nuclear tub? Wait for Startup Hyperion’s Nuclear-In-A-Box

Hyperion Power Generation is ambitious. It wants to provide commericalized nuclear-tub-sized power plants for one and all by the year 2013. Each one can power about 20000 homes. Not bad. It is based more...
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Vishal Gondal Turns Startup Mentor

Vishal Gondal minted money when he sold his online gaming company Indiagames first to Chinese gaming giant Tom Online and later to UTV Software Communications, has launched a new venture called Sweat And more...
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Google starting venture capital group

While sitting pretty on a cash pile of about $12.7 Billion dollars, Google is extending into the VC market with a big fund (amount unknown) and led by senior vice president David Drummond and entrepreneur more...
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