Nov 23, 2009 blogs.wsj.com
With Twitter exploding – and the focus on real time data exploding along with it - there are a number of new companies that are seeking to develop more specific applications of this technology.
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Nov 23, 2009 feedproxy.google.com
Infinia Corp. of Kennewick, Wash., which is working on dish technology to convert the sun's rays into electricity, has raised $9 million million in new debt-and-equity funding from existing investors. More»
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Nov 23, 2009 www.chegg.com
Chegg the textbook rental service that lets college students rent textbooks, so they don’t have to buy them, announced that it has raised $57 million in cash. In addition to the venture round, it has More»
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Nov 23, 2009 blogs.wsj.com
 This morning’s roundup of the latest venture capital news and analysis across the Web:
Art by Mike Lucas
Profits, Anyone? - The race to slip through the IPO window before it gets too crowded seems More»
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Nov 20, 2009 feedproxy.google.com

Microsoft's support for Referendum 71 won its Bing search engine a new fan in David Schmader of the Stranger, but the company's Internet search practices related to China have now lost Bing a user More»
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Nov 20, 2009 blogs.wsj.com
 (The following dispatch comes from Geoffrey Rogow, a reporter with Dow Jones Newswires, who recently interviewed Twitter Inc. co-founder Biz Stone onstage at the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum.)
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Nov 20, 2009 blog.compete.com

One of the companies I’ve been following for a long time is Esty.com. Esty.com is a website for folks selling craft items – or as they put it “Your place to buy & sell all things handmade.” More»
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Nov 20, 2009 blogs.wsj.com
QuinStreet Journal - You might remember our blog post in August about a online marketing company called QuinStreet Inc. which suddenly released its financial numbers in a press release. The figures were More»
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Nov 19, 2009 blogs.wsj.com
 Remember paying astronomical prices for college textbooks that, once class was over, had only one possible use: as paperweights?
To the relief of parents everywhere, shelling out $182 for Principles More»
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Nov 19, 2009 feedproxy.google.com
Diane Irvine, CEO of Seattle-based online diamond retailer Blue Nile, sat down for a segment on the Wall Street Journal's Talking Tech, and answered reader questions on everything from blood diamonds, More»
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Nov 19, 2009 www.adknowledge.com
Some consolidation happening in the social gaming ad space. SocialMedia.com a company that runs ad platforms on apps and games was bought by online performance advertising firm AdKnowledge.
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Nov 19, 2009 www.webguild.org
Once high flying online music site imeem that proclaimed to have a valuation in the billions sold itself to MySpace yesterday for pennies. The company will get $1 million in cash and $7-9 in MySpace (News More»
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Nov 16, 2009 feedproxy.google.com
 The venture arm of the National Association of Realtors has led a strategic investment in DocuSign, the Seattle developer of electronic signature technology. Real estate transactions -- which typically More»
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Nov 16, 2009 blogs.wsj.com

One of the key things that esteemed venture firm Sequoia Capital looks for in a potential investment is an entrepreneur solving a problem they experienced firsthand, says Partner Bryan Schreier. That More»
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Nov 12, 2009 blogs.wsj.com
 Interest in social gaming is jumping to new heights. One of the players in the space, Playdom Inc., just raised a giant-sized $43 million round from Lightspeed Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, More»
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