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Posted: Thursday 29 July 2010
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Tucked away in Kansas City, Mo., out of the limelight of Silicon Valley or New York, is the home base for an online advertising company whose nine-digit revenue continues to swell.
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Posted: Thursday 29 July 2010
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Corporate venture investing has made a minor comeback in recent months, with three corporations establishing venture capital initiatives.
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Posted: Wednesday 28 July 2010
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How confident are venture capitalists about the industry right now? It depends on who you ask.
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Posted: Wednesday 28 July 2010
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The sale of Playdom to Disney gives venture investors a fast and healthy exit. Investors are also pleased with the planned sale of another online gaming company, Kongregate, to GameStop. And venture investment perks up globally.
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Posted: Wednesday 28 July 2010
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You can check in at your local coffee shop. You can check in at your favorite music venue. Now, with Philo, you can check into "The Real Housewives of New Jersey."
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Posted: Monday 26 July 2010
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Doostang post critizized by language pros.
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Posted: Monday 26 July 2010
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Fearing what may lurk on the next Web site or in millions of free downloads, companies have always imposed strict limits on what employees can do on their computers. Now several start-ups are using new technologies to give employees more freedom, without sacrificing security.
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Posted: Friday 23 July 2010
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The move to new display technologies and demand for new applications are turning televisions into the next growth segment for chip companies, and venture-backed companies could benefit.
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Posted: Thursday 22 July 2010
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Venture firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital have a solid track record of collaboration.
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Posted: Thursday 22 July 2010
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A new start-up, Flipboard Inc., has launched with a free app - a digital "social magazine" concept designed specifically for the iPad. Will it be the killer app that venture capitalists expect?
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Posted: Wednesday 21 July 2010
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Mergers of small biotechs, such as the recent union of Evotec and DeveloGen, could grow more common as public companies look for scale and as aging venture-backed players look for the exit, some observers say.
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Posted: Wednesday 21 July 2010
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Investing in China is nothing new for U.S. venture capital firms, but recently these have firms begun raising local-currency funds to make it easier to invest in homegrown start-ups.
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Posted: Tuesday 20 July 2010
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Ocarina Networks Inc. investors say they are seeing a successful return barely two years after the company launched its first product because Ocarina built storage technology that is far different than anything on the market.
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Posted: Monday 19 July 2010
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Two U.S. start-ups, Genocea Biosciences and VaxInnate, could reduce the downside of manufacturing vaccines with technologies that make discovery and commercialization cheaper and faster.
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Posted: Thursday 15 July 2010
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With Dogpatch Labs, Polaris Venture Partners looks to woo young, Web entrepreneurs.
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Posted: Wednesday 14 July 2010
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Over the years, a great number of people have turned to the Internet to find a soul mate, poring over online profiles to find shared interests and the kind of common ground that can lead to a lifetime of connubial bliss. Then there are the other people.
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Posted: Tuesday 13 July 2010
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The majority of chief executives at privately held technology companies expect to receive bonuses this year, according to a new poll, but how satisfied are they with their incentive compensation process?
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Posted: Monday 12 July 2010
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EHarmony may not be the trendiest or flashiest dating Web site out there, but it has steadily grown to become a big piece of the online dating space.
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Posted: Wednesday 7 July 2010
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When San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi was confronted with the "Herculean task" of gathering 44,000 petition signatures in 10 weeks to place a pension reform measure on the municipal ballot, he knew exactly who to ask for help - Sequoia Capital Partner Michael Moritz.
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Posted: Tuesday 6 July 2010
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A study shows that companies acquired after filing for an IPO command a premium price--as much as 26% higher--over those that solely seek a single buyer.
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