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on October 9, 2006
Daniel Primack asks this question in his latest newsletter:
Sevin Rosen Funds has indefinitely postponed fundraising for its tenth fund, which had been scheduled to hold a first close this week. This ...
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on October 8, 2006
Meet the money is ETRE's section where companies have time to pitch for some minutes and then get grilled by 4 VCs in the panel. Though questions and not an easy format for the presenting CEO I ...
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on October 8, 2006
We are here for the keynote session at ETRE'06 listening to John Thompson, CEO of Symantec.
The kick off session is focusing on the developments and trends that John has identified in the last 1...
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on September 13, 2006
RedHerring reports about Murdoch's newest investment:
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. paid VeriSign $188 million Tuesday to buy a 51 percent controlling interest in VeriSign's mobile phone ent...
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on September 5, 2006
A heavily quoted deal in Germany that was announced today:
ProSiebenSat1 Media, Germany's largest commercial television company, has bought a 30 per cent stake in MyVideo, a German video web...
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on August 23, 2006
Video Sharing site Grouper.com has exited to Sony for $68 million:
Silicon Beat says:This is one of the more impressive management turnaround stories in Silicon Valley's short Web 2.0 history. We...
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on August 21, 2006
Two companies I have been watching for quite some time are reporting new rounds today:
CNN reports:
Friendster, the social networking site that helped introduce the service to the online world, is...
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on August 18, 2006
PE Week Wire reports that Box.net has taken an investment from DFJ:
Box.Net Inc., a Berkley, Calif.-based provider of online file storage solutions, has raised $1.5 million in Series A funding led ...
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on August 18, 2006
E-Consultancy reports on the spectacular round for Euopean Web 2.0 start up Netvibes:
The Paris and London-based start-up, which claims to have recruited five million users of its customisable Ajax...
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on August 18, 2006
Blog Search Engine company Technorati raises a third round to become the all encompassing blog search engine (that never works):
Technorati received a $10.52 million investment in June from Draper Fi...