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. Several More»

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»

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»

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»

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»

(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.) Reuters The More»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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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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»

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»

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»

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»