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Parallels closes venture capital funding
Individual.com &bull Feb 19, 2010
(Datamonitor Financial Dea) Parallels, Inc., a Switzerland-based provider of virtualization and automation software, has closed a venture capital funding round led by Siguler Guff & Company, LLC's wholly-owned subsidiary Russia Partners Management, LLC. Bessemer Venture... Full Story »
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Mobile Game Maker Moblyng Raises $1M
Alarm Clock &bull Feb 19, 2010
Founded in 2007, Moblyng Games has released titles for the Apple iPhone, Google Android, Palm Pre, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Nokia mobile platform. They have developed technology that allows them to build apps for the web, iPhone, Android, Palm Pre… Full Story »
David Gladstone and Laura Gladstone - Venture Capital Investing: The Complete Handbook for Investing in Private Businessesfor Outstanding P Rofits
sponsored listing • Shopping.comVenture capital and buyouts from the investor's perspective Start-to-finish advice on identifying winning business opportunities Evaluating management, finance, products/services, growth opportunities, and exit strategies Essential reading for every VC, leveraged buyout (LBO) funds professional, angel...Full Story »
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Text-Video Publishing Platform Vook Gets $2.5 Million Seed Funding
Paid Content &bull Feb 19, 2010
Mixed-media book publisher Vook has raised $2.5 million in seed funding as the company looks to capitalize on the wider adoption of e-readers and other portable devices. The funding comes from individual investors Ron Conway and Huffington Post chairman Ken… Full Story »
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MyEdu closes on $5.5M funding round
Biz Journals &bull Feb 19, 2010
Austin-based MyEdu, which employs 50 workers, received the capital from a syndicate of investors that includes Boston-based Bain Capital Ventures, company officials said. MyEdu was founded in 2009. Co-founder and CEO Michael Crosno was previously CEO of Dallas-based Global 360… Full Story »
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Interview with Ken Rutkowski, The Founder Institute
Socal Tech &bull Feb 19, 2010
The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. Ken Rutkowski is the man making happen here. As President of the L.A. chapter of the Media, Entertainment and Technology Alliance (METal)… Full Story »
Joseph W. Bartlett and Peter Economy - Raising Capital for Dummies
sponsored listing • Shopping.comWhile raising capital has never been easy, it has become a lot more difficult over the past few years. The dot-com debacle has made investors skittish, especially when it comes to financing early-stage start-ups. As a result, more and more entrepreneurs are being forced to compete harder and harder for...Full Story »
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Stocks poised for early drop
CNN Money &bull Feb 19, 2010
Futures measure current index values against perceived future performance and offer an indication of how markets may open when trading begins in New York. The Dow futures collapsed, after the Fed hiked its emergency rate, said David Jones, chief market strategist at IG Markets in London.They dropped 70 points in five minutes.… Full Story »
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Nataxis In Talks To Sell PE Biz to AXA
Private Equity Hub &bull Feb 19, 2010
PARIS (Reuters) - French investment bank Natixis (CNAT.PA), recovering from a series of quarterly losses that provoked funding worries, on Friday said it was in talks with AXA (AXAF.PA) to sell its private equity business in France. Natixis said it… Full Story »
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MyEdu lands $5.5M more to help you graduate college while saving money
Venture Beat &bull Feb 19, 2010
MyEdu, a developer of education web applications to help students graduate on time and still save money, today announced that it closed a $5.5 million second round of funding to expand its university partner network and launch new services. MyEdu… Full Story »
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A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government's continued cluelessness on NYC's innovation scene
This is Going to be Big &bull Feb 19, 2010
I generally like NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn . I think she's smart, hardworking, and I think she'd probably make a good mayor someday. However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking that most of what the NYC… Full Story »
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Moonshoot Raises $6.6 Million
Private Equity Hub &bull Feb 19, 2010
Moonshoot, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based developer of an online gaming experience for teaching English to children, has raised $6.6 million in VC funding from Alsop Louie Ventures and TL Ventures. The company also announced the addition of Tom Kalinske as… Full Story »
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EveryScape Raises $6 Million
Private Equity Hub &bull Feb 19, 2010
EveryScape Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based developer of a virtual online experience of actual metro, suburban and rural areas ("The Real World Online"), has raised $6 million in Series C funding. SK Telecom Americas led the round, and was joined by… Full Story »
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Twitter, Digg investor: Be a Thunder Lizard, don't sell to Google
Venture Beat &bull Feb 19, 2010
Mike Maples Jr., an early backer of popular web startups like Twitter and Digg, ended today's Future of Funding event in San Mateo (co-sponsored by VentureBeat) with a passionate keynote speech urging attendees to either found or fund "Thunder Lizard" companies. Those are the companies that defy conventional venture wisdom, whcih says you either make small bets… Full Story »
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States short $1 trillion to fund retiree benefits
CNN Money &bull Feb 19, 2010
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Just as they are contending with massive gaps in their operating budgets, states and localities must also deal with a $1 trillion deficit in public employees' retirement benefits' funds, a new report found. The shortfall amounts to more than $8,800 for every household in the nation, according to the Pew Center on the States, which published its findings Thursday. States largely got themselves into this mess by failing to make annual contributions while also enhancing benefits, the… Full Story »
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Zynga's chief designer shares tips learned from social games
Venture Beat &bull Feb 19, 2010
Zynga has become the envy of the video game industry because it has so many users for its Facebook games. So Brian Reynolds, chief designer at Zynga and a veteran of the traditional video game industry, got a lot of attention for his talk about designing hit social games. The talk at the Dice Summit was also an interesting contrast to the morning speech by Jesse Schell about… Full Story »
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Latinas and Breast Cancer Target of Major International Study with $1 Million Funding from Susan G. Komen for the Cure (Business Wire)
Yahoo Finance &bull Feb 19, 2010
G. Komen for the Cure. States and globally. Uruguay. Brinker and NCI Director, John E. America. An estimated 14,000 cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in U.S. Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. For more information about… Full Story »
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Money Will Flow Like Aquafina If You Can Come Up With A Better Idea Than Pepsi During SXSW
TechCrunch &bull Feb 18, 2010
You may recall that last year we poked fun at Pepsi for sending us a few cases of Aquafina water bottles. First of all, were a tech blog. Secondly, the point of the outreach was to showcase Aquafinas new plastic… Full Story »
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7 Billion People receives $1.4M financing
Biz Journals &bull Feb 18, 2010
The Austin-based company, which tracks online buying trends for e-commerce marketers and Web site operators, received the funding from nine investors, according to todays filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In early 2009, 7 Billion People completed a… Full Story »
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Another Local Funding: EveryScape Gets $6 Million
Paid Content &bull Feb 18, 2010
EveryScape , which provides "eye-level" images of major towns and cities around the world, has raised $6 million in a third round of funding. The company charges local businesses in order to build 3D, photo-realistic panoramas of their physical locations… Full Story »
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Fed raises emergency funding rate
CNN Money &bull Feb 18, 2010
The Fed said late Thursday it is raising its discount rate by a quarter percentage point, or 25 basis points, to 0.75%. The central bank said in a statement it made the move in response to improving financial market conditions. The unanimous decision to boost the discount rate also has no effect on the more widely… Full Story »
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Clicker, a TV guide for the web, raises a pre-emptive $11 million round
Venture Beat &bull Feb 18, 2010
Clicker, a TV Guide-styled search engine for online video, raised $11 million in a second round of funding led by JAFCO Ventures. Earlier investors Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures also joined this round. This was not a need-based round of… Full Story »
