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mocoNews.net:
Shazam, the mobile app and call-in service that helps users name songs, is taking further funding from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) backer Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, which is taking a stake, through it (Read More)
mocoNews.net:
Jeff Sellinger, the SVP of Mobile at CBS (NYSE: CBS), has left the company effective today, and joing his former boss and colleague Cyriac Roeding as a co-founder and Chief Product Officer of his new stealth startup, the one (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Cyriac Roeding was the head of mobile at CBS, and more recently an entrepreneur in residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Roeding’s first startup of his own, a stealth company called Cross-Platform Corp, has raised $2 (Read More)
mocoNews.net:
Cyriac Roeding, the former head of mobile at CBS and an EIR at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers since last year, is finally moving with his new startup under the KPCB wings: the new company, tentatively called Cross-Platform (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Among companies developing solely for the iPhone, social network startups have drawn more VC investment money than games, according to startup investment tracker Chubby Brain’s latest set of charts. Listing 22 rounds of fundi (Read More)
Vatornews.tv:
The administration is turning Washington DC into a fountain of cash. VCs are stoked, sort of.Since the administration's announcement in March that $2.4B would go to hybrid plug-in car initiatives, green VCs have been trekking (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple will "drive down prices of some of the most popular Macs" [AppleInsider]Bill Gates writes an article for Time Magazine about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos [Time]And Risk Astley writes about 4chat's 'moot', whose site launch (Read More)
paidContent.org:
More evidence of how lucrative the social gaming space has become: EA digital media exec Brandon Barber has jumped ship to Zynga. Barber will take on the role of VP of marketing at the gaming company, which develops games lik (Read More)
Venture Hacks:
Go read Eric Ries’ new blog: Startup Lessons Learned. He’s a Venture Advisor at KPCB and a co-founder, CTO, and VPE of IMVU.Eric blogs about one of my favorite topics: applying lean/agile to startups. Lean thinkin (Read More)
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Submitted by sheuer:
A little over a month after opening its first 130,000-square-foot factory in Las Vegas, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Ausra, a developer of utility-level solar thermal power, has raised $24.5 million in a third roundof funding fro (Read More)
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Tech News,
Venture Capital
paidContent.org:
Just when Fortune did a long story on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers not investing in the Internet and Web 2.0 world anymore, the venerable venture firms unleashes a major one: San Francisco-based Zynga, which makes casual (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Silicon Valley’s most venerable venture capital firm has raised $1.2 billion in two new funds. Kleiner Perkins announced the formation of its thirteenth fund, KPCB XIII, which will invest $700 million in “greente (Read More)
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