Archive for ‘February 1st, 2010’
SpiderCloud Wireless Raises $25 Million, Total Funding Now $40 Million Wireless technologies developer SpiderCloud Wireless has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Opus Capital. Shasta Ventures and existing Series A investors Charles River Ventures and Matrix Partners also participated in the round, which brings the company’s total funding to a [...]
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Ten-Year Venture Capital Returns Continue To Slide Ten-year returns for Venture Capital firms continue to slide downwards for the 5 and 10-year periods ending on September 30, 2009 according to the Cambridge Associates U.S. Venture Capital Index, the VC performance benchmark of the National Venture Capital Association. As investments in startups during the lucrative 1990’s [...]
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Netflix Adds About 300 Indie Films For On-Demand Streaming Indie film lovers, rejoice: Netflix this morning announced that it has secured deals with multiple distributors of independent films, giving users the opportunity to stream some 300 additional titles on-demand instantly – or in some cases starting ‘early next year’. In last week’s earnings release, the [...]
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Facebook COO: 175 Million People Log Into Facebook Every Day Last year we interviewed Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This year we interviewed her again. Notably, this time I brought a tripod with me and didn’t cut off Sheryl’s forehead. A year ago Facebook had 150 million users, [...]
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Nokia, Pearson Set Up Digital Education Joint Venture In China Nokia and education company Pearson have formed a joint venture in China dubbed Beijing Mobiledu Technologies to grow MobilEdu, the wireless education service that the Finnish mobile giant launched in China back in 2007. Mobiledu is a mobile service that essentially provides English-language learning materials [...]
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Social Shopping Site ThisNext Confirms Funding, Acquires Stylehive Social e-commerce company ThisNext recently raised a Series C round of $1.2 million, which we reported based on an SEC filing. The Santa Monica, CA startup has now confirmed the financing round and also announced that it has acquired smaller rival Stylehive for an undisclosed amount. ThisNext [...]
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Interview With Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina: “The Nation With The Best Brain Power Wins†On Friday, I caught up with Carly Fiorina by phone for 30 minutes while she was in between stump speeches in her campaign for U.S. Senate for the state of California. We covered a lot of ground, including the new competition [...]
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Five Apps We Can’t Wait to See on the iPad With the iPad, ‘casual’ computer use will just increase. And since the iPhone already has a lot of apps that are better, fuller featured and easier to use than their desktop equivalents, and since all should ‘just work’ on your shiny new iPad, albeit at [...]
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Top Ten African-American Characters in Science Fiction Every so often an African-American gets cast in a particular role, not to get a Black stereotype on the screen, but because the actor or actress was the right fit for the part. They were the embodiment of the character and made us forget about race as a [...]
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Tardy Transit? Tweet To The Top Riders of San Francisco’s often infuriating Municipal Railway — known to locals as Muni — have a new way of expressing their displeasure with service outages, delayed trains and late buses: Tweeting the man in charge from MuniFail.com.
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