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VentureBeat:
Thanks to everyone who made it out to GreenBeat 2009 yesterday and Wednesday!We were thrilled with the turnout, and couldn’t be more grateful for all the support we received from attendees, speakers, sponsors and the press. I (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Harbinger Capital, the hedge fund that once seemed poised to shake up the New York Times, has again reduced its stake in the company.According to SEC filings, Harbinger only owns 14.64% of the Times Company now, down from 16% (Read More)
paidContent.org:
The morning-after paperwork from eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) as control of Skype shifts to a private investment group led by Silver Lake Partners offers a look at the post-split financials for both companies—and the kind of detail on S (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Quinstreet, the Foster City, CA-based vertical media and marketing firm that recently bought Insure.com and Internet.com, has filed for an IPO to raise as much as $250 million, (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Even before Tim Armstrong joined Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to take AOL independent, the company was mixing in new brands with the familiar acronym. He’s pushed that strategy even (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Harbinger Capital Partners continues to slice its stake of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). Co., selling its second batch of stock in two months. The activist hedge fund that spe (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Fluidigm, which makes chips that for genetics lab, has raised $7.5 million in new equity, according to VentureWire. That’s part of a new $18.5 million round that the South San Francisco, Calif. company is raising. The funding (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Looks like VCs are really loosening their wallets. College textbook rental service Chegg says it has raised $57 million in a fourth round of funding. It’s the latest company to (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Popular textbook rental site Chegg.com continues to raise tremendous amounts of money — today it announced a $57 million fourth round, as well as $55 million in credit and debt.The Santa Clara, Calif. company says it will use (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The winners of the inaugural GreenBeat Innovation Competition — a survey of the most promising technologies and companies working toward a cleaner, more efficient grid — were just announced following four-minute presentations (Read More)
VentureBeat:
NeoEdge has gone through some big changes in the in-game advertising market, which has been battered by the recession and disruptions in casual game sales.Today, the company is announcing that is merging with casual game deve (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Inspired by Apple, every hardware maker is creating an app stores these days. Today, Livescribe is launching a beta platform that allows developers to create apps for its Pulse smart pen. There are already 30 cool third-party (Read More)
VentureBeat:
IPWireless, a maker of mobile network equipment, has raised $15.5 million in a new first round of institutional funding. The company previously raised $235 million and was acquired by NextWave Wireless in 2007, but NextWave s (Read More)
paidContent.org:
NeoEdge, the casual and online game advertising platform, is getting into the game development business. The company has merged with Offspring, a startup founded by a team of fo (Read More)
VentureBeat:
“Ten years out we want lamps that use 2 percent the energy and put out the same amount of light,” Doerr said at the beginning of his talk at GreenBeat 2009 today — indicative of his interest and that of his firm, Kleiner Perk (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Outright, which offers a free online application to help small businesses manage their finances, has raised $5.5 million in a first round of institutional funding led by Sequoia Capital. The firms that invested in Outright’s (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Editor’s note: Guest writer Glenn Kelman is the CEO of Redfin, an online real estate broker that seeks to give consumers the information and tools once limited to real estate agents. Previously, he was a co-founder of Plumtre (Read More)
VentureBeat:
GoodGuide, one of my favorite applications for the iPhone, just got a cool new feature — barcode scanning. Users could already consult the app for data on whether a product was healthy, environmentally-friendly, and socially- (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Women-focused content firm LimeLife—which runs an online site aimed at the 18-34 year-old set, along with a corresponding mobile property—has raised another $1 million in fundin (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The CIA’s In-Q-Tel investment arm took a stake today in FireEye, which is creating an anti-malware platform for enterprises.Milpitas, Calif.-based FireEye is working on a platform that can fight off “botnets,” which are fleet (Read More)
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