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Otonomy Gets $38.5M, Avalon Helps Restart Drug for Age-Related Blindness, Accumetrics Heads Toward Profitability, & More San Diego Life Sciences News
X-Conomy &bull Yesterday
The life sciences news over the past week was almost all about deals. Money came out of INC Research, a contract research organization in North Carolina that was founded in San Diego. Money went into Otonomy, Accumetrics, and some other… Full Story »
- Avalon Ventures
- Enterprise Partners Venture Capital
- A Round
- B Round
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Mafia Sourcing - How Insiders Game User Generated News for Money
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Yesterday
The Web. Open, democratic, leveling, freeing information from closed networks. The wisdom of the crowds. Or so it seems. I originally came from the enterprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I was in mobile & telecoms (8 years) so the last three years of immersing myself in consumer Internet, digital media & advertisings has been very eye opening. I arrived on this scene wet behind the ears assuming that the web was, as it seemed to me as a user, powered by the masses for the masses. Ah, the joys of youthful naivete. I first learned the… Full Story »
- Kevin Rose
- Paul Graham
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What you need to know - Thursday 9/2/2010
Vator News &bull Yesterday
Google and AOL extxended their partnership until 2015. The deal, announced this morning, means that Google will be AOL's exclusive search partner for another five years. The partnership also has Google providing search for mobile and puts AOL's content on Google's YouTube. Apple announced a bevy of new products. At Apple's… Full Story »
- Matrix Partners
- Sutter Hill Ventures
- Intel Capital
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Data storage company 3Par accepts HP's hefty $2.4B offer, Dell withdraws
Venture Beat &bull Yesterday
The very public Dell and HP bidding war for the data storage company 3Par may finally be coming to an end. HP announced today that it increased its offer for 3Par to $33 per share - or $2.4 billion. Shortly… Full Story »
- Mayfield Fund
- Menlo Ventures
- Technology Partners
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Inflection's Archives.com Raises $30M
Alarm Clock &bull Yesterday
Palo Alto-based Inflection raised $30M in a first round of funding. Inflection was founded in 2006 and is best known for its web site Archives.com which aggregates public data, and is often used for geneology research. The company publishers another… Full Story »
- Matrix Partners
- Sutter Hill Ventures
- A Round
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On the GreenBeat: Cisco to acquire Arch Rock, Tesla fires back at GM
Venture Beat &bull Yesterday
Cisco delves deeper into the smart grid market by announcing today its plans to acquire Arch Rock Corp , a privately held company that makes IP-based wireless technology company for smart grid applications. This comes on the heels of yesterday's… Full Story »
- Initial Public Offering
- Strategic Alliance
- Series B Funding
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BizSpark Startup of the Day - Retrevo
Microsoft Startup Zone &bull Yesterday
The BizSpark startup of the day is Retrevo, based in the US. Below you will find an interview with Manish Rathi, Co-Founder & VP-Marketing of Retrevo. All the best to them and congratulations for being the startup of the day! Website: www.retrevo.com Share this: Twitter Facebook Tell us who you are and your role in the company: Co-Founder & VP-Marketing. What did… Full Story »
- Vantage Point Venture Partners
- Reid Hoffman
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YC-Funded Cloudant Launches Its NoSQL Cloud Database Platform
TechCrunch &bull 55 Minutes Ago
YCombinator-funded Cloudant, a database platform built around Apache's open source CouchDB framework, officially launches after three years of hard work. Cloud-based like Cloudera and Amazon Web Services and part of the NoSQL movement, Cloudant scales your database on the CloudDB… Full Story »
- Avalon Ventures
- Seed Round
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PeopleSmart: A new privacy concern?
Vator News &bull Yesterday
As Facebook continues to push the envelope when it comes to privacy issues, a new startup has set its sights on gathering up your information in an online database, but with some twists that could actually give internet users more peace of mind about their privacy. The database, launched Thursday, is called PeopleSmart, and it's powered by Palo Alto, Calif.-based… Full Story »
- Matrix Partners
- Sutter Hill Ventures
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Ustream Snags Former Palm PR VP Lynn Fox
TechCrunch &bull Today
We hear that former Palm Vice President of Public Relations Lynn Fox has given up on her "Consult Until-I-Find-Another-Job Consulting" plans and landed a permanent gig at video streaming service Ustream. Her formal title will be VP of Corporate Communications… Full Story »
- A Round
- SoftBank Capital
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Bank middle-manager BankSimple raises $2.9M to not be a bank
Venture Beat &bull Today
BankSimple, the not-quite-a-bank provider of front-end services for a number of treasury-focused banks, raised $2.9 million in its first round of funding. First Round Capital, IA Ventures and Village Ventures led the round. Again, BankSimple is not a bank. It's… Full Story »
- First Round Capital
- Village Ventures
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Vlingo Adds Voice Check-ins to Foursquare
GigaOm &bull Yesterday
Vlingo today added voice support to Foursquare on Android handsets, allowing Foursquare users to check in, find friends and send shouts through speech-to-text. The updated version of Vlingo, available in the Android Market, can also be used to update a… Full Story »
- Charles River Ventures
- Sigma Partners
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Burger King to Sell Itself to 3G for $4 Billion
New York Times - DealBook &bull Yesterday
Burger Kingagreed on Thursday to sell itself to the investment firm 3G Capital for about $4 billion, including the assumption of debt, marking the second time in eight years that the fast-food giant has taken itself private. Under the terms… Full Story »
- Initial Public Offering
- Bain Capital
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BuzzFeed Opens Up Access to Its Viral Dashboard
GigaOm &bull Yesterday
BuzzFeed, which tracks online topics that have gone viral, is offering a version of the analytical dashboard it uses to monitor the spread of Internet "memes" to any website, brand or publisher that wants to track the popularity of their content. To demonstrate… Full Story »
- B Round
- RRE Ventures
- Founder Collective
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Vela Systems Scores $6M Series B
X-Conomy &bull Yesterday
Burlington, MA-based Vela Systems, a mobile field software startup, said today it has raised a $6 million Series B equity financing led by new investor Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK). Existing investors Commonwealth Capital Ventures, GrandBanks Capital, and individual investors also participated… Full Story »
- Commonwealth Capital Ventures
- Grandbanks Capital
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Archives.com Owner Inflection Raises $30 Million
Paid Content &bull Yesterday
Inflection, an under-the-radar startup which owns genealogy website Archives.com, has raised $30 million in a first round of funding. The company charges users $39.95 a year to access historical records and build their own family trees on the site and… Full Story »
- Matrix Partners
- Sutter Hill Ventures
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Twitter Has 145M Users, Mobile Use Up 62 Percent
GigaOm &bull Today
Mobile use of Twitter has climbed by more than 60 percent since April, when the company introduced its official iPhone client, Twitter CEO Ev Williams said in a status update posted to the company's blog. The Twitter founder also said… Full Story »
- Fred Wilson
- Union Square Ventures
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News Roundup: SKIL Infra To Raise Rs 2,500Cr
VC Circle &bull Today
SKIL Infra To Raise Rs 2,500Cr - SKIL Infrastructure is raising Rs2,500 crore by selling less than 20% stake in two phases that includes a private placement to overseas funds besides a public issue. The transaction will value the group holding company at around $2 billion. SKIL top management recently went on a… Full Story »
- Initial Public Offering
- Advent International Corporation
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U.S. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council Quietly Holds First Meeting in DC, Starting with Steve Case-Hosted Dinner
X-Conomy &bull Yesterday
It's a big day for U.S. innovation strategy. The National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship is holding its first official meeting at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, today-and Xconomy has some exclusive details. The council, made up of 26 national leaders in business, technology, and academia, is charged with helping the Obama administration "develop… Full Story »
- Madrona Venture Group
- Steve Case
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Life Image Secures $5.2M in Second Financing Round to Push Medical Images in the Cloud
X-Conomy &bull Yesterday
Life Image has won further investor support after more hospitals have bought its new technology for exchanging medical images via the Internet cloud. The Newton, MA-based software startup has closed $5.2 million of a planned $10 million Series B funding round to finance increased sales, marketing, and product development, company… Full Story »
- Cardinal Partners
- Series B Funding
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