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Twitter creator Biz Stone to advise Spark Capital

Spark Capital announced Thursday that its newest strategic advisor is to be Biz Stone, best known as co-founder of Twitter.Stone Read More

Clean Urban Energy gets $7M for smart buildings

It’s looking more and more like the future of clean tech lies in smart cities. Sure, you can provide a Read More

Executive brief: eBay buys Zong

Congratulations to Zong! The mobile payments company was just sold to eBay for $240 million, both companies announced Thursday. The Read More

eBay acquires Zong for $240M in cash

  Big news for the mobile payments industry today. Ebay announced Thursday that it has agreed to acquire mobile payments Read More

What you need to know – 07/07/11

eBay agreed to acquire Zong, provider of a mobile payments platform, for approximately $240 million in cash.   Facebook is Read More

Motif Investing gets $6M for retail investing

For those of us who entertain the idea of getting into retail investing but don’t really trust ourselves with our Read More

WordPress Online Meeting Plugin by Banckle

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Has Silicon Valley disintermediated itself?

Up to this point in the evolution of Silicon Valley investment, legions of hopeful young entrepreneurs emerged from the likes Read More

PetFlow gets $10M for online pet food shopping

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Groupon Now launches in three new markets

I’ve been sitting here, patiently awaiting the arrival of Groupon Now to reach my home town of Sacramento. It’s taking Read More

Facebook has 750M members, Zuckerberg disses Google

Group chat, a new chat design and one-to-one video conferencing via Skype. Well, that’s not very exciting, Facebook. After all, Read More

Facebook upgrades chat, still behind Google+

Facebook announced Wednesday that it is rolling out three new features to its platform: group chat, a new chat design Read More

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