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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)
VentureBeat:
(Editor’s note: This is a truncated version of an interview that originally ran on VCExperts.com)Dana Callow is the Managing Partner of Boston Millennia Partners. Prior to founding Boston Millennia Partners, Dana co-founded (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Chip maker Amimon is announcing today that it has created wireless modules that can connect computers and high-definition TVs so that consumers can effortlessly watch PC content on their TVs.The devices could make it a lot ea (Read More)
VentureBeat:
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)
TechCrunch:
[Sweden] Movie-streaming service Voddler (the so-called ”Spotify for movies”) has received about 3.4 million Euros (35 million SEK) in funding from a group of private investors. The money will supposedly go to developing the (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The transition to high-speed 10-gigabit per second networking adapters has spawned a lot of broadband communications companies. One of them, Chelsio, has raised $17 million to expand its business of making 10 gigabit Ethernet (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Come December, months after it should have happened, the White House will convene a jobs summit. That’s a good thing if we’re really going to talk about all options. Because important ones are missing right now. To that end, (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Come December, months after it should have happened, the White House will convene a jobs summit. That’s a good thing if we’re really going to talk about all options. Because important ones are missing right now. To that end, (Read More)
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Prosper.com, a peer-to-peer lending and loan marketplace, has raised $1 million worth of a $2 million round of funding, per an SEC filing. QED Investors led the funding; managin (Read More)
VentureBeat » Mobile/Comm:
Voxeo said today it has raised $9 million in funding for its voice communications business.The Orlando, Fla.-based company is focused on making open platforms based on what it calls “unlocked communications,” such as voice-ov (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Video web site Clicker Media is formally launching its service today which gives online users a real TV Guide-style search engine for television content online. The goal is to give users access to a massive playlist of TV to (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[Spain] European buying clubs remain a hot item, along with the fashion brands they sell at a discount. Barcelona-based Venture Capital firm Debaeque has acquired a 10% stake in BuyVIP, although the actual price is undisclose (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Alice.com, the retail platform for household goods, has closed a $6 million Series B round of funding from private investors, bringing the startup’s total funding up to over $10 million. We previously scooped the startup’s $4 (Read More)
Daily Kos:
If you ever read novels written by the late Robert Heinlein, you'd soon come across a character that was part scientist, part entrepreneur, part explorer, and wildly successful at all three. Of course, such people don't exist (Read More)
VentureBeat:
EBay has settled with the founders of Skype, clearing up some nasty lawsuits that now allows the Internet phone company to be sold to a consortium of investors that includes the Skype co-founders.Private equity firm Silver La (Read More)
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Blake Krikorian of Slingbox fame is joining the board of a new internet TV venture: start-up Clicker.com, now in private beta. Krikorian is investing in the company founded by Jim Lanzone, the former CEO of Ask.com; other inv (Read More)
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Ken Sonenclar is a managing director at DeSilva + Phillips LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media. Every day brings an earnings release, government report or trad (Read More)
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Canadian microblogging startup StatusNet has raised $875,000 in a round of seed funding from Montreal Start Up, iNovia Capital and angel investor Oleg Tscheltzoff. StatusNet’s open source platform is used by organizations to (Read More)
VentureBeat:
As predicted yesterday, president Barack Obama used his visit to Florida’s DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center to announce the distribution of $3.4 billion in stimulus grants to utilities working to build out a cleane (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Montreal-based StatusNet, the company behind the open-source microblogging service identi.ca, is closing an $875,000 seed round today. Investors include Montreal Startup, iNovia Capital, and Fotolia co-founder Oleg Tscheltzo (Read More)