MyLikes, an advertising platform based on spreading personal product endorsements through social networks, announced today that it raised a $5.55 mill... read more »
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Wrightspeed, a maker of fuel efficient, electric drive systems, has raised a $5 million Series A round from an unnamed private investor. According to ... read more »
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News Corp is on the verge of unloading another one of its digital businesses under Fox Interactive Media, the Fox Audience Network (FAN), to Los Ange... read more »
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A recurring refrain in my Twitter feed is the coded question, &''11 or 13&'' Despite it&'s religious overtones, this is not a reference to passages ... read more »
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Touch interfaces for content and social media are, thanks to applications like Pulse and Flipboard &8211' the &8216'new new thing&'. They are presenti... read more »
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A new wave of e-commerce is coming, backed by tends of millions of dollars from Silicon Valley&'s savviest investors, that&'s reinventing more than ju... read more »
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In retrospect, Tesla may have been cleantech&'s Netscape moment. It didn&'t get off to the world&'s greatest start, but like a few other venture-backe... read more »
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Here&'s the latest action we&'re following today on the GreenBeat:Obama proposes $29.5 billion for DOE budget &8212' The president pitched more clean ... read more »
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Potentially disrupting the established practices of angel investing, investors Yuri Milner (pictured) and Ron Conway have teamed up to offer a blanket... read more »
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a4‚¬AThe Social Networka4‚¬¯ snagged eight Oscar nominations this morning, including the coveted Best Picture Award and the Best Actor award for Jess... read more »
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Marc Bodnick, the cofounder of Silicon Valley private-equity firm Elevation Partners, is leaving to join Quora, according to multiple reports. (Ventur... read more »
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SoloPower, a maker of flexible thin-film solar power panels, has raised $13.5 million in its fifth round of funding from Crosslink Capital and others,... read more »
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Tilera is one of the leaders in designing chips with many brains, or cores, with as many as 100 on a single chip. The San Jose, Calif.-based company i... read more »
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Social TV startup Philo tells me user numbers are a4‚¬Athrough the roofa4‚¬¯ right now, thanks in large part to copying a strategy from traditional TV... read more »
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TechShop, a chain of membership-based workshops offering tools and equipment, has raised $1.7 million of an expected $4 million in equity, according t... read more »
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Everybody loves free stuff. And, believe it or not, plenty of businesses love giving it away ‚a4‚¬‚a4¯a4s‚ freebies can help raise awareness of a comp... read more »
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The holidays have been good to Apple, and in particular to iPad sales. In its first quarter 2011 earnings report today, Apple said it sold an astoni... read more »
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All signs are pointing to an imminent launch of a version of Apple&'s iPhone that can run on Verizon&'s network, according to multiple reports.Apple h... read more »
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A day after 4chan founder Christopher Poole argued for the importance of online anonymity (and even called Facebooka4‚¬a4„s approach a4‚¬Atotally wron... read more »
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Media baron Rupert Murdoch is going into video games &8212' but not in his usually splashy way. Although he could easily drop a billion dollars on the... read more »
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