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<title><![CDATA[Verizon's exclusivity on Bing for Android ends]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bing on Android.(Credit:Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)What does Bing now have in common with Skype It joins the list of apps that were once exclusive to mobile carrier Verizon, and now aren't. Earlier today, Microsoft announced that its Bing search application is now available to all Android users through Google's Android market, a move that ends the exclusivity Verizon has had on it since the end of August. The app is no different from the one that came before it, except that it no longer matters what carrier you're on. Android users who want to grab the app can just do a search for Bing, or scan the QR code below. As Andy Chu, a member of Microsoft's Bing for Mobile team, explained in a blog post, this move is not the end of Verizon's Bing distribution. The carrier is pre-installing Microsoft's mobile search software on Samsung's Continuum and Motorola's Citrus phones in place of Google's own search, which can still be downloaded from the Android Marketplace by users.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AMD ships its first Fusion microprocessor-graphics combo chips]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Advanced Micro Devices kicked off its &amp;''Fusion era&amp;'' today with the announcement that it has shipped its first chips that combine graphics and microprocessor capability in a single chip.Normally, those functions are built into two separate chips in a computer. By combining them, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD can eliminate the cost of an extra chip in a PC without a huge sacrifice in computing performance. Some aspects of computing actually can happen faster in so-called APUs, or accelerated processing units.The announcement could lead to new kinds of computing devices with high performance and to smaller devices. Computer makers adopting the Fusion chips are expected to debut their machines early next year. AMD rival Intel also has a combo chip, code-named Sandybridge, coming at the same time. But Intel&amp;'s graphics processing capability isn&amp;'t likely to be as good.Nvidia, meanwhile, doesn&amp;'t have an Intel-compatible microprocessor. So it is wedded to the path of making stand-alone graphics chips, which it says will deliver much better performance than a combo chip can. On that front, Nvidia launched its fastest new graphics chip today.Rick Bergman (pictured), senior vice president at AMD, said at AMD&amp;'s analyst meeting today that Fusion chips will deliver a better internet experience, high-definition video, cool graphics, and high-quality 3D games. The Fusion processors will be able to run DirectX 11 games, or those based on Microsoft&amp;'s DirectX graphics standard. DX11 is the most current version of the standard.The Zacate version of the APU can operate on 18 watts and is based on AMD&amp;'s new Bobcat Intel-compatible processing core. The Ontario APU platform is aimed at netbooks and operates on 9 watts of power. Systems using the chips are expected to be announced in January at the Consumer Electronics Show. Bergman said the first Fusion products are shipping many months ahead of schedule.A second Fusion family, code-named Llano, has four processing cores on one chip and will ship later in 2011. The highest performance Zambezi Fusion chips, with four to eight cores, will use the Bulldozer core and ship in 2011. In 2012, more AMD Fusion chips will be shipped as well.Next Story: On the GreenBeat: Oil supply could run out before replacements ready, Solazyme signs JV Previous Story: Samsung hearts Android: Ships 3M Galaxy S phones in US, announces dual-display ContinuumPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: FusionCompanies: advanced micro devices, Intel, NvidiaPeople: Rick Bergman          Tags: FusionCompanies: advanced micro devices, Intel, NvidiaPeople: Rick BergmanDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LeisureLink raises $9M to do for hotels what Captain Kirk did for flights]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[LeisureLink, which helps hotels and lodging companies distribute their data to travel booking websites, announced today it has raised $9 million in its third round of fundraising.The Pasadena, Calif.-based company provides specialty lodging places a4&quot; like condos and hotels a4&quot; with a service that distributes reservation data to thousands of travel-booking websites. That can include what rooms are open, what the rates are, and what kind of deals hotels are willing to cut to fill them. Travelers can then view all hotels and specialtylodgingcompanies that have open rooms for the next eight weeks at A Better Stay, the search portion of LeisureLink.The company plans to use its funding to invest in its active revenue management system, which helps hotels manage all their interactions with travel websites. LeisureLink also provides its customers with an analytics suite that helps lodging providers figure out which deals are working and which ones aren&amp;'t.It&amp;'s an attempt at disrupting a highly profitable space, and similar to what some startups are doing with flight data. Hotel bookings make quite a bit more money than airline bookings for travel websites, and the space is still growing. And unlike the rapidly consolidating airline industry, which is seeking to cut commissions paid to online travel agents, hoteliers are willing to pay for help filling rooms. Furthermore, the industry is highly fragmented, with a long tail of smaller players.The results are clear: Pricelinea4a4s hotel bookings were up 54 percent from the same quarter a year earlier and have continued to see growth, according to its most recent earnings statement. Expedia, another online travel site, reported that 63 percent of its transactions were related to hotels, while only 12 percent were from flights.Even Hipmunk, a new startup that takes flight data and presents it in a slick interface, might be including hotel booking information in their service soon a4&quot; at least, according to a cryptic message by Hipmunk backer Alexis Ohanian. The specialty lodging space is a $20 billion market, according to LeisureLink.Clearstone Venture Partners, Mission Ventures, and Wyndham Exchange &amp;amp' Rentals a4&quot; all existing investors a4&quot; participated in the most recent round of funding.[Photo: Olof S]Previous Story: Social game company Summerlight comes out of stealth (exclusive)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: hotel bookings, travel bookings, travel sitesCompanies: Expedia, Hipmunk, LeisureLink, PricelinePeople: Alexis Ohanian          Tags: hotel bookings, travel bookings, travel sitesCompanies: Expedia, Hipmunk, LeisureLink, PricelinePeople: Alexis OhanianVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LeWeb Video: Rodrigo Seplveda Schulz on the French startup market]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[At Le Web I ran into Rodrigo Seplveda Schulz, serial entrepreneur and now investor. I asked him about the startup market in France, a market which &amp;8211' despite his reputation as a huge globe-trotter &amp;8211' he is intimately acquainted with, being based out of Paris. What was interesting was the extent to which he was quite down on the market, even as we often hear from TechCrunch France that there has been a lot more startup activity in the last 18 months. Unfortunately for these French startup heroes, the over-riding business culture of France is not helping them. Here&amp;'s Rodrigo:CrunchBase InformationRodrigo Seplveda SchulzInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Was Youku a Chinese Internet Netscape Moment&nbsp'(TCTV)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago we flagged a growing trend of Chinese Internet companies going public on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange and getting pretty good valuations. At the time I was surprised more people weren&amp;'t paying attention&amp;8211' especially given how few Internet IPOs we&amp;'re having in the US and how much of the returns from those Chinese deals were flowing back to Silicon Valley. (At least on paper anyway.)All it took was Youku doubling in a first day pop to grab more mainstream attention and a flood of stories about a Chinese Web bubble. But it&amp;'s not really that simple. While there seems to be plenty of appetite for Chinese companies on Wall Street, few are having the reception that Youku did. BitAuto, a site in the middle of China&amp;'s explosive automobile growth, surprised a lot of experts when it didn&amp;'t pop higher.So what makes the difference between a BitAuto which didn&amp;'t pop as high as many expected and a Youku that popped much higher And is this a bubble We sat down via Skype with Ruby Lu to find out.Lu is an investor in DCM&amp;'s China office and has had three IPOs, including BitAuto a few weeks ago and Dangdang last week.a4sDangdang is called the &amp;''Amazon of China&amp;'' and that&amp;'s one of the keys to a well marketed IPO, she says&amp;8211' a company that can fit into that &amp;''fill-in-the-blank of China&amp;'' shorthand. But as we discuss below&amp;8211' and I&amp;'ve written before&amp;8211' the comparison is almost always a lazy, flawed way of assessing these companies. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[VentureBeat&'s top 10 VC startup fundings in 2010]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times &amp;8212' at least for Silicon Valley startups in 2010.While many smaller, lesser known newbies languished as venture capital investments declined overall, those that did score, scored big, and have kept themselves in the headlines ever since.So where did VCs put their money in &amp;8216'10 VentureBeat teamed up with venture capital analytics and reference researchersVC Experts to bring you the top 10 largest single investments in tech startups in 2010 &amp;8212' and why they had so many investors foaming at the mouth.Microblogging darling and San Francisco-based startup Twitter claims the crown for the largest single venture capital funding in 2010, after it scored a tidy $205 million infusion and $3.7 billion valuation on Dec. 12. The interest in the company is understandable: over the last year Twitter users sent 25 billion Tweets and added more than 100 million new registered accounts. During the same period, the company grew from 130 people to more than 350 today and is rumored to be looking for new digs in its hometown &amp;8212' as well as an IPO that could come as soon as this upcoming summer. Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers led the round.White-hot social gaming company Zynga raised $147.4 million on June 14 from Japana4a4sSoftBank, as it started its push into the lucrative and game-crazed markets of Asia and pulled away from the pack as the clear leader in the gaming community. The maker of FarmVille, and more recently, CityVille, now boasts 261.6 million monthly active users of Facebook, a massive spike from its 198 million monthly active users in November. Founded in 2007, Zynga has more than 1,300 employees, withsome recent valuations show thatZynga could be valued above $5 billion, larger than Electronic Arts, one of the largest video game publishers in the world.Groupon, a social buying startup that offers deep discounts on daily deals in conjunction with local merchants, has been an eye-catcher all year for investors, grabbing $135 million on April 19 from Russian investment firmDigital Sky Technologies as it began a year of raging growth and notoriety. The Chicago startup quickly became the dominant player in the daily-deal space. Itsnubbed a $6 billion buyout offer from search behemoth Google and is now rumored to be seeking a $1 billion round of financing &amp;8212' making Groupon a company to watch well into next year and beyond.Live video streaming company Ustream, which supplies content to web sites and cell phones, on Feb. 1 raked in $75 million in a second round of venture funding led by Tokyo-based Softbank. The Mountain View, Calif.-basedcompany immediately put the funding toward expanding its presence in Japan, China, Korea and India. VentureBeat has used Ustream technology to broadcast live video from theConsumer Electronics Show, using equipment that allows a single person with a video camera and Ustream broadcasting pack to upload live video to a web site. Users can also interact with each other in real-time by using the Ustream Social Stream. The servicecurrently has over 45 million monthly unique visits with an average of 20 to 30 minute viewing time per stream and most recently captured headlines for breakingviewing records during the Chilean miner rescue.Boston-Power, maker of advanced lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and grid storage applications, landed $66.4 million in a fifth round of funding on June 10, a major score for a company on the brink of mass commercial scale in the emerging automotive and utility sectors. The company said it would use the money to double its workforce, as well as grow its manufacturing center in Taiwan, and add to its sales, marketing and R&amp;amp'D operations. Existing investors Foundation Asset Management and Oak Investment Partners both led the round, which included investments from previous backers Venrock Associates and Gabriel Venture Partners.Games-on-demand companyOnLive raised $60 million in a strategic round of funding from BT, the former British Telecommunications, on May 13, as part of a plan to expand its games on demand service to Europe.OnLive&amp;'s rivals include Otoy, Gaikai, InstantAction and GameStreamer. OnLive, founded by entrepreneur Steve Perlman, has more than 20 games available from game publishers such as the former Electronic Arts Ubisoft, Take-Two Interactive and THQ.OnLivea4a4s basic technology is compression, then a video is sent back over the broadband line to the usera4a4s computer. OnLive&amp;'s goal is make that computing appear to happen in the cloud rather than on the usera4a4s own computer.Smartpen maker Livescribe, which launched at theDEMO conference in 2008scored $44.8 million on Sept. 22, as the company pushed to further develop its product. Livescribe&amp;'s pens let students and professionals record lectures and link the playback of those lectures to written text. If you want to play back a section of a lecture, you simply tap on the written text. You can also use the pens to run writing-related apps and to get quick answers to math problems or translate foreign words. Crosslink Capital led the round, joined by Scale Venture Partners, Qualcomm, TransLink Capital, Presidio Ventures, Keating Capital and existing investors VantagePoint Venture Partners, Lionhart and Aeris Capital.Video ad network Tremor Media pulled in $40 million on April 28, which the company said it would use to improve its Acudeo ad delivery platform to identify individual website visitorsa4a4 demographics on the fly, rather than needing to lump entire sitesa4a4 audiences into buckets. Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund, Triangle Peak Partners, Canaan Partners,Meritech Capital Partners,SAP Ventures,European Founders Fund,Masthead Venture Partners andDFJ Growth.Business social networking companyJive Software reeled in $30 million on July 21 as it continued to make its mark as a leader in its niche. With 3,000 customers and more than 15 million users, the Portland, Ore., startup usessocial networking within your company, community tools for interacting with your customers, and monitoring features to track what people are saying on sites like Twitter.The investment was led by Kleiner Perkins Caulfield &amp;amp' Byers, with continued participation from Sequoia Capital, the only venture investor in Jive up then. The news made headlines at the time for another reason: the last time Kleiner and Sequoia teamed up on a deal of this size (larger than $30 million) was more than a decade ago, when they invested in Google, a bet which has more than paid off.Blogging platform Tumblr showed that people are still interested in long-format ruminations (or at least those bigger than Twitter&amp;'s 140 characters) by snagging $30 million on Dec. 12 after opening a new office in New York City and expanding its staff to 16 people. Tumblr, a social media network made up of millions of personal and business blogs, is seeing massive traffic growth, with activity on the network of Tumblr blogs skyrocketing over the first half of the year to reach around 2 billion pageviews this fall. Investors were clearly paying attention &amp;8212' this round was led by Spark Capital, Sequoia Capital and Union Square Ventures, all well-known Silicon Valley star watchers.Next Story: On the GreenBeat: Molycorp stock rises on rare earth scarcity, Verizon launches smart home pilot Previous Story: Apple to announce Verizon iPhone within next few weeksPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: electric cars, IPO, Social Media, Social networks, Venture CapitalCompanies: Aeris Capital, Boston Power, BT, Canaan Partners, Charles River Ventures, CrossLink Capital, DFJ Growth, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund, Electronic Arts Ubisoft, Emergence Capital, European Founders Fund, Foundation Asset Management, Founders Fund, Gabriel Venture Partners, Gaikai, GameStreamer, Groupon, InstantAction, Keating Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, Lionhart, Livescribe, Masthead Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Oak INvestment Partners, OnLive, Otoy, Presidio Ventures, Qualcomm, SAP Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Softbank, Spark Capital, Take Two Interactive, Thq, Translink Capital, Tremor Media, Triangle Peak Partners, Tumblr, Twitter, U.s. Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures, ustream, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Venrock Associates, Yammer, Zynga          Tags: electric cars, IPO, Social Media, Social networks, Venture CapitalCompanies: Aeris Capital, Boston Power, BT, Canaan Partners, Charles River Ventures, CrossLink Capital, DFJ Growth, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund, Electronic Arts Ubisoft, Emergence Capital, European Founders Fund, Foundation Asset Management, Founders Fund, Gabriel Venture Partners, Gaikai, GameStreamer, Groupon, InstantAction, Keating Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, Lionhart, Livescribe, Masthead Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Oak INvestment Partners, OnLive, Otoy, Presidio Ventures, Qualcomm, SAP Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Softbank, Spark Capital, Take Two Interactive, Thq, Translink Capital, Tremor Media, Triangle Peak Partners, Tumblr, Twitter, U.s. Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures, ustream, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Venrock Associates, Yammer, ZyngaRiley McDermid is a contributing reporter to VentureBeat. She was previously the online editor at institutional investing and trading forum Markets Media, which she joined in 2008 from Dow Jones/MarketWatch in New York. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, the Associated Press, Portfolio Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Barrona4a4s. She has won awards from the American Society of Business Publishers and Editors, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Mississippi Press Association and the Atlanta Press Club, and was a finalist for the Pacemaker Prize for excellence in news reporting.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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