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4 hrs ago | 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

8 hrs ago | 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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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

TechCrunch

Placecast Raises $5 Million For Location-Based Advertising Platform

Location-based marketing platform Placecast has raised $5 million in funding from Quatrex Capital, Onset Ventures and Voyager Capital.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, Voyager Capital

Computerworld

Convey and its VC backers bet on hybrid servers

PORTLAND, Ore. - High tech startup companies today are most likely to be software application vendors or social networking sites.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Social Software, Computers, CPU, Science / Technology, Richardson, TX, High Performance Computing

New York Times

Silicon Valley Firm Raises Big Fund for Mix of Deals

Norwest Venture Partners has raised $1.2 billion for a new venture capital fund, an optimistic sign for technology start-ups. LifeSize Norwest Venture had invested in the videoconferencing start-up LifeSize Communications, which Logitech bought this month.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, Norwest Venture Partners, Financial Services, Investment Services, Science / Technology

Tue Nov 17, 2009

East Bay Business Times

Bigfoot Networks gets $8M

Bigfoot Networks , a maker of gaming software and hardware, has raised $8 million in a Series B financing round led by existing investors North Bridge Venture Partners , Palomar Ventures and Raven Venture Partners .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Glu Mobile, Startups

Tampa Bay Business Journal

New Enterprise gets $4M investment

The Florida Opportunity Fund will invest $4 million with venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates to help boost some of the company's investments in the state.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Computers, IT Services

Bioscience Technology

Healthcare Mergers Thrive, Focus of iiBIG Nashville Conference

According to the Wall Street Journal, merger activity in the healthcare sector is showing no signs of weakening -- in fact, deal-making in this sector has been setting records notwithstanding the downturns in the economy at large.

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Related Topix: Nashville, TN, Emerging Technology

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