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5 hrs ago | Business Wire

Public relations, press release distribution, investor relations, SEC filing

TORRANCE, Calif.-- --Active Storage, Inc. today announced that it has completed its Series A funding round lead by Intel Capital with top-tier venture capital firms Mission Ventures and... OAKLAND, Calif.-- --There is encouraging economic news in the 5th Annual Greater San Francisco Bay Area Compensation Survey.

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Related Topix: Business Wire, Startups, Public Relations, Emerging Technology, San Francisco Metro, San Francisco, CA, Healthcare Law, Law

Sun Nov 22, 2009

GreenCarReports

CEO Group Goal: 75 Percent of U.S. Miles in Electric Cars By 2040

Roadmaps aren't inherently sexy, unless you're lost and hungry. But when they demonstrate plausible visions for the future, they can be well worth reading.

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Related Topix: Electric Vehicle, Emerging Technology, Transportation, FedEx, Air Courier, Hybrid Vehicles, Chevrolet Volt, Chevrolet

Washington Business Journal

2010 Venture Capital Awards

The Washington Business Journal is pleased to announce the 2010 Venture Capital Awards for Greater Washington.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Customer Interaction Solutions

Damballa Announces Plans for Company-Wide Growth and Charges Ahead...

Damballa, Inc., the company that stops Internet-based criminal use of enterprise networks, announced today that Val Rahmani has joined the company as its Chief Executive Officer .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Sat Nov 21, 2009

San Jose Mercury News

Bay Area firms grab 46 percent of VC funding as it surges nationwide

With clean tech leading the way, Bay Area companies scooped up a remarkable 46 percent of venture capital investments in the third quarter of 2009, including the seven largest deals.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science / Technology

BusinessWeek

How Venture Capital Lost Its Way

When people around the world try to explain the American system of entrepreneurship, they often point to venture capital.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Telecom, Computers, Cisco Systems, Apple Computer, Google, Startups, Microsoft, Software, Restaurant Management, Starbucks

Newkerala.com

Manthan gets $15-million second round venture funding

Bangalore, Nov 19 : Leading software product firm Manthan Systems secured $15 million from three venture capital partners in the second round of funding, the company said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Marketing

Daily Herald

Twitter sales top $4 million

Twitter Inc., the social-networking company valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, said it is generating sales of more than $4 million a year and plans to build on that revenue with advertising.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Social Software, Emerging Technology

Fri Nov 20, 2009

All About Jazz

WEB/TECH: Reports: Myspace Buys Imeem at Fire Sale Price

MySpace has completed the purchase of imeem, which has been rumored since Monday, at a price that could make venture capitalists wary of investing in any startup that requires music licensing.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, TechCrunch

BusinessWeek

Fund manager Gartmore pla...

Private equity-owned fund manager Gartmore plans to list in London in a move which could kick-off a much-touted run of initial public offerings among companies owned by cash-hungry buyout firms.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

CNET News.com

Electric-car maker Tesla preparing IPO

U.S. electric-car maker Tesla Motors plans to go public soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, amid growing interest in green technology and battery-powered vehicles.

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Related Topix: Tesla Roadster, Electric Vehicle, Hybrid Vehicles, Emerging Technology

ABC News - Brian Ross

Warner Chilcott Prices Secondary Stock Offering

Warner Chilcott PLC, which makes women's health and dermatology products, said a secondary offering of 20 million shares priced at $22.25 per share.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Dermatology, Emerging Technology

TechCrunch

eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation

The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control an approximately 70 percent stake is a group led by Silver Lake Partners and includes Joltid and "certain affiliated parties", the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and VC firm Andreessen Horowitz .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Silver Lake Partners, Startups

Thu Nov 19, 2009

AlwaysOn

The 2009 VC 100 Winners

The last 15 months have been highly uncertain for both the venture capital industry and the companies they fund, but history shows that funding entrepreneurs takes patience and endurance.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Menlo Park, CA

ClipSyndicate

Kramer Says NBC Universal Deal Would `Test' Regulators: Video

Nov. 19 -- Larry Kramer, an adviser to Polaris Venture Partners, talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu about plans by General Electric Co.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Emerging Technology, Investment Services, General Electric, Aerospace-Defense, Business News, Video

Boston Business Journal

Ma joins ranks of female VC partners

Jiong Ma spent a decade in scientific research before stepping into the fast-paced world of venture capital, a world sparsely populated by minorities and women.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science, Computer Science, Richardson, TX

WLTX-TV Columbia

Should Workers Suck Up To The Boss Or Not?

CEOs say they are experts at recognizing the brown-nosers, the Dwight Schrutes of The O ffice .

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Related Topix: Insurance, John Hancock Financial Services, Emerging Technology, Financial Services, Investment Services

Creative Mac

New iPhone Application From GoodGuide Lets Users Scan Barcodes to Get ...

The newest version of GoodGuide's iPhone application, now available for free from Apple's iTunes App Store, will make it easier and faster for consumers to find healthy and environmentally friendly products from socially responsible companies while standing in the aisle of a store.

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Related Topix: iPhone, Emerging Technology

Wed Nov 18, 2009

SYS-CON MEDIA

Cloud AntiVirus Company Secures $2 Million in Funding

Immunet, developer of next generation AntiVirus technologies, announced today that it has raised $2 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Altos Ventures with participation from Atlanta-based TechOperators.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, Altos Ventures, Computers, Search Engines, Social Software

Electronics Weekly

picoChip raises $20m in venture capital

This investment strengthens our balance sheet and fully funds us through to IPO." That suggests Toon and picoChip's VCs have pencilled in 2010 as the year for the company's IPO.

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