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Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner:5 ways VC firms can stop shooting themselves in the foot – Venture Capital firms drill the need to create basic credibility into the companies they invest in – but ofte (Read More)
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Santiago, Chile-based Austral Capital is one of a growing number of Latin American VC firms making names for themselves. Thanks to aggressive support from the Chilean government, the less than two-year old company has funded (Read More)
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Intel said today that it has invested $25 million in seven new startups as part of its goal of advanced the interests of increasing demand for the company’s products.The investments were led by Intel Capital, which is the inv (Read More)
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Playfish scored big last week as Electronic Arts said it would buy the social gaming company for as much as $400 million. That is a remarkable achievement for a company that is just a couple of years old. It’s a validation of (Read More)
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(Editor’s note: Laura Grimmer is CEO of Articulate Communications Inc., a B2B technology and services communications firm. She submitted this story to VentureBeat.)Over the past 20 years, I have worked with countless VC firms (Read More)
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I’m delighted to announce that Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley’s highest profile green investors, will be speaking at our GreenBeat conference next week.Khosla is important for two reasons. He’s probably the most prolific (Read More)
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(Editor’s note: Jason Cohen is an angel investor and the founder of Smart Bear Software. He contributed this column to VentureBeat.)As someone who has both sought venture capital and distributed it, I’m lucky to have a pretty (Read More)
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Chip makers don’t raise much money these days. But things must be getting better, because Stretch has just raised $10 million in a mezzanine funding round to expand production of its security camera chips.Sunnyvale, Calif.-ba (Read More)
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has partnered with app developer Spot411 to launch FoxPop, a new computer and iPhone app that syncs up with content on a DVD or Blu-Ray (Read More)
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The main reason for EA’s second round of mass layoffs within a single calendar year? The company is extremely bullish on digital. “As we said in previous quarters, we’re narrowi (Read More)
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The main reason for EA’s second round of mass layoffs within a single calendar year? The company is extremely bullish on digital. “As we said in previous quarters, we’re narrowi (Read More)
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Electronic Arts said today it would lay off 1,500 employees as it focuses more tightly on its best-selling video games and digital media busisnses. The company also posted slightly better-than-expected revenues for its secon (Read More)
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Electronic Arts confirmed rumors this morning as it acquired Playfish for $300 million in cash and stock. The move gets EA into the social gaming market on Facebook in a big way.The value of the deal — $275 million in cash, $ (Read More)
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VentureBeat is throwing a new mini-conference and networking event, DiscoveryBeat.DiscoveryBeat addresses one of the biggest conundrums for Silicon Valley’s most dynamic startups and developers: How to get your social game or (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Brizzly is on a roll right now. Just yesterday, it became the first web-based Twitter client to implement Lists, and last week it rolled out Facebook support. Today brings good news for its parent company: More funding.At the (Read More)
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Cyworld, the Korean social giant that could, finally couldn’t. At least not in U.S. It is shutting down its U.S. service, after three years of trying, according to a notice on i (Read More)
Valleywag:
You may be aware that deathly newspaper company stocks have experienced a brief resurgence recently, amidst speculation that things aren't so bad after all for the newspaper industry. If you benefited from this resurgence at (Read More)
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In a new roundup of the morning's front pages you'll be glad to hear that our measured press corps refuses to read too much into last night as a ridiculous referendum on Obama so soon into his presidency. Kidding! Most of the (Read More)
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I’m delighted to announce that Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt has agreed to speak at our GreenBeat event on Nov. 19, which focuses on the overhaul of our nation’s electrical grid.Schmidt has been a vocal proponen (Read More)