Submitted by stewbagz
from blog:
How Must Media Change To Get Funded By Venture Capital The World Of Startups Outside Silicon Valley Fast Company. (Read More)
Submitted by zelkovavc
from Twitter:
Paul O'neil. Entrpreneurship and venture capital and innovation are what makes this a great economy, govt is not the answer. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Deep-pocketed technology giants such as Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. plan to continue snapping up companies during the economic downturn, likely benefiting from an ability to drive a hard bargain with even red-hot startups (Read More)
Valleywag:
Jason Calacanis, the mop-haired founder of Mahalo, an overfunded Web directory, is musing on Twitter about "tickers and rallies past" — a Proustian substitution of stock markets for madeleines. But what, exactly, does h (Read More)
paidContent.org:
-- Sony: Keith Le Goy has been promoted to the new post of president-distribution for Sony Pictures Television International, according to THR. He will continue to oversee international SPTI licensing operations, and will now (Read More)
Mashable!:
Ravit Lichtenberg is the founder and chief strategist at Ustrategy.com—a boutique consultancy with a mission to help startups succeed. She authors a blog at ravitlichtenberg.com.With the economic downturn grinding the startup (Read More)
TechCrunch:
uTest, the crowdsourcing QA startup that lets companies rely on external developers to help them identify bugs, has closed a $5 million Series B funding round led by Longworth Venture Partners and Egan-Managed Capital, along (Read More)
New York Times:
The Tesla Roadster is an electric car that goes fast, looks sensational and excites envy. But the seductive appearance, Randall Stross writes in The New York Times, obscures some inconvenient truths: its all-electric technolo (Read More)
Gawker:
We were impressed last month when it was rumored that the Huffington Post may have raised $15 million in new investment, a big accomplishment for a media company at a time when the media economy is in the trash. Well, those r (Read More)
Times Online:
The Huffington Post, the American news and opinion website, has secured $25
million of funding from a venture capital firm.$. (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Huffington Post raises $25 million from Oak, $10 million more than previously reported. Kara Swisher puts the valuation at just south of $100 million (presumably post-money).This is a lot of money and a good (if not great) va (Read More)
All Things Digital:
Here’s the official press release from the popular news and blogging site, The Huffington Post, which announced $25 million in funding from Oak Investment Partners this morning.(BoomTown’s story on the funding is (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
Power.com, the latest company that wants to bring you Nirvana by letting you update all your social network profiles from a single place, launches this evening.However, it needs a bit of work before it’s truly convincing. It (Read More)