This week’s funding roundup features a flurry of incredibly young startups that either launched in the last year Read More
Funding roundup – week ending 06/18/10
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AOL sells Bebo for ‘meaningful tax deduction’
AOL has sold social networking site Bebo, the one it bought two years ago, to Criterion Capital Partners Read More
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Zynga raises $147M from Softbank
Zynga, social game developer for Facebook and beyond, raised a $147 million investment from Softbank, according to two Read More
As might have been expected, venture funding in the first quarter of 2010 fell 2% from the quarter Read More
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Twitter acquires Smallthought Systems
Twitter has acquired Smallthought Systems, the company behind online database service Dabble DB and analytics dashboard Trendly. Though Read More
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Thumbtack.com tacks on $1.2M in funding
Thumbtack.com, an online marketplace for finding and listing local services like guitar lessons or product photography, announced on Read More
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Footbalistic raises $500K for soccer data
Footbalistic, a professional statistics and analytics site for soccer data, has raised a $500K round from angel investors, Read More
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RockYou gets $10M for social app development
RockYou, a social networking developer of apps and ad widgets, has raised a $10 million Series E round Read More
Over this weekend, I celebrated my tenth anniversary as a venture capitalist. When I joined August Capital 10 Read More
“Did you know that people are very bad at predicting what will make them happy?” asked Amazon CEO Read More
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Zynga gets Challenge Games as Austin office
Over the weekend an SEC filing surfaced showing that Zynga may have paid at least $20.5 million for Read More
This analysis comes from Steve Carpenter, an Internet entrepreneur who spends his days analzying high-profile private companies to Read More
Donny Yen’s latest movies about Wing Chun grandmaster, Ip Man, started a Wing Chun rage across Asia. As Read More
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Funding roundup – week ending 06/04/10
Pandora, one of the most popular providers of online radio, raised a new round of funding this week Read More
MobileBeat 2010 — the third incarnation of Venturebeat’s must-attend event for mobile industry executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and developers — hits San Francisco Read More