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46 min ago | American Chronicle

Two Columbia Men Sentenced for $3 Million Investment Fraud

Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Columbia, Mo., men were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a multi-million dollar investment fraud.

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Related Topix: Columbia, MO, Prison, Emerging Technology, Fulton, MO, Federal Prisons, Opinion

8 hrs ago | China Daily

China to give high-tech VC funds a hand

BEIJING: China's top economic planner has issued guidelines to channel central government money into new venture capital funds to support the high-technology sector.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Thu Nov 26, 2009

China Daily

China pilots VC funds for innovation, restructuring

China's central government Thursday announced it is to join local governments and private investors in a pilot program to facilitate venture capital funds for innovative and high-technology industries, and industrial restructuring.

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TechCrunch

Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Raises $9 million For New Collaboration Startup, Asana

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz is starting a new startup called Asana to solve enterprise collaboration, and he just closed a $9 million series A round from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz. this follows $1.2 million angel round last spring from investors including Ron Conway, Peter Thiel, Mitch Kapor, MySpace CEO Owen van Natta, ...

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Emerging Technology

Total Telecom industry news

TDC to merge with NTC

Transaction aimed at simplifying the company's group structure. Danish telecom operator TDC AS said Thursday it has signed a plan to merge with Nordic Telephone Company ApS in order to simplify the company's group structure and optimize its capital structure.

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Related Topix: TDC aS, Telecom, Emerging Technology

Canada.com

VCs are looking for great ideas

Total venture-capital investments could fall below the $1-billion mark this year for the first time since 1995.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Wed Nov 25, 2009

VC Adventure

The VC Model is "broken"

In the latest lob into the morass that has become somewhat of a sport amongst journalists and those that follow the venture capital industry, Carl Schramm and Harold Bradley write in BusinessWeek about " How Venture Capital Lost Its Way ". The evidence? Venture capital funding is down - from an "astonishing" 1.1% of US GDP in 2000; and in the 3rd ...

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Biotech, Science / Technology

Belleville News-Democrat

A look at startup firms challening mutual funds

Covestor Investment Management and kaChing are online ventures that seek to challenge traditional mutual funds.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Emerging Technology

NetworkWorld

Corel Saves Itself, WordPerfect, CorelDraw from Brink

In a desperate bid for survival, long-time office software maker Corel has agreed to a takeover by its majority investor, Vector Capital, a move that could help keep classic software packages such as WordPerfect and CorelDraw around as Microsoft Office alternatives, at least for a while.

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Related Topix: Microsoft Office, Emerging Technology

TechCrunch

Dropbox Raised $6 Million Sequoia-Led Series A In October 2008

Earlier today GigaOm reported that Dropbox raised a new $7.25 million funding round over the summer .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

The Apple Blog

Intel Capital Invests in Mac-focused Active Storage

Is it possible that the Mac is making inroads with Enterprise IT?A Intel Capital announced at CEO SummitA that it is leading a Series A investment round in Active Storage of Torrance, CA, which builds high-performance storage solutions for the Mac platform.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Torrance, CA

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Computerworld

Opinion: Rediscovering start-up technologies

Last week in New York, a group of 70 CIOs and soon-to-be-CIOs were asked how they were spending their time by the CIO Posse, a collection of active, transitioning and just-retired Forbes 1,000 CIOs.

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Related Topix: CIO News, Emerging Technology, Opinion

Earth Times

Kobalt Music Founder and CEO Willard Ahdritz Wins BVCA Venture...

Willard Ahdritz, the CEO and Founder of Kobalt Music Group , has received the Venture Capital backed CEO of the Year Award - Southeast and London region, from the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Ltd.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

The Boston Globe

Grim forecast for venture capital firms

Money will be hard to come by for venture capitalists next year as they struggle to lure skittish investors whose portfolios are still recovering from the recession.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Boston, MA Metro, Boston Metro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Investor's Business Daily

Teracent: Another Google-related win for a Sonsini

Google Inc.'s acquisition of online advertising start-up Teracent Corp., announced Monday, marks yet another payday courtesy of the Internet giant for a member of one of the most prominent families in Silicon Valley.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Menlo Park, CA, Emerging Technology, Law, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, San Mateo, CA

ClipSyndicate

Patricof Discusses Venture Capital Funding, IPO Market: Video

Nov. 23 -- Alan Patricof, founder and managing partner of Greycroft Partners LP, talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu, Jon Erlichman and Adam Johnson about venture capital funding.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Video, Business News

Fast Company

The Secret to Finding Venture Capital: Not "How" but "Where"

As any entrepreneur who's spent some time trying to understand the venture capital universe will tell you, VCs typically invest locally.

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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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