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Week in review: Tracking down a Modern Warfare pirate, Max Levchin on Slide’s big bet
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: How investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate While the bust led to the arrest of just one hacker among many, it sheds light on the shadowy undergr …
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Chip design firm Stream Processors shuts down after plowing through $26M
Stream Processors, a chip design firm focused on video processing, is shutting its doors after burning through at least $26 million in venture capital, and is engaged in an asset sale, VentureBeat has learned. The closure is a blow to one of the bigger efforts to push parallel processing, which uses …
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Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: Surefire ways to get rejected by an angel investor and clearing up lea …
Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner: Shoestring marketing for startups – Young companies typically don’t have the budget for a substantial marketing campaign, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. As you search for your niche and your company evolves, serial entrepreneur Scott …
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Chip design firm Stream Processors shutting down and selling assets
Stream Processors, a chip design firm focused on video processing, is shutting its doors and is engaged in an asset sale, VentureBeat has learned. Jack Horng, an officer for the company, said that Stream Processors will be formally shut in a month or so. The former chief executive, Chip Stearns, is …
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Windows 7 sells 234% more copies than Vista
It looks like all the positive buzz round Microsofts new Windows 7 operating system paid off in sales. Windows 7 sold 234 percent more copies during its first few days on the market than Vista did during the same period of its release, according to research by the NPD Group. NPDs data covers the wee …
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Windows 7 sells 234 percent more copies than Vista
It looks like all the positive buzz round Microsofts new Windows 7 operating system paid off in sales. Windows 7 sold 234 percent more copies during its first few days on the market than Vista did during the same period of its release, according to research by the NPD Group. NPDs data covers the wee …
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ClickFuel provides internet tools to small businesses
As a web generation, when were looking for a dentist, plumber, or other small business, our first instinct is to go online when we need these services. Sure, theres Yellow Pages that can find a name, number and address, but as consumers we are used to more and these small businesses usually lack a f …
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MSN changes the butterfly
MSNs new home page, which you can see at preview.msn.com, is the first one that doesnt look like it was designed by Microsoft. The new page has the same cheery look and feel as the Bing search box that perches at its top, waiting to grab your next search away from Google. The MSN butterfly logo has …
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Smart Meter maker Landis+Gyr lands $100M for epic rollout
Last weeks announcement of $3.4 billion in stimulus funds for utilities was big news for smart meter makers. Almost every recipient of the money said they would be using it to add millions of advanced meters to their coverage areas. Now major meter maker Landis+Gyr has proved that the government gra …
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Announcing DiscoveryBeat: an event on how to get your apps noticed in an age of noise
VentureBeat is throwing a new mini-conference and networking event, DiscoveryBeat. DiscoveryBeat addresses one of the biggest conundrums for Silicon Valleys most dynamic startups and developers: How to get your social game or mobile application noticed in an age of noise? It will be held in the afte …
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Broadband chip maker MaxLinear files for IPO
Broadband communications chip maker MaxLinear has filed to go public in another indicator that the good times are back for tech stocks and exits. Carlsbad, Calif.-based MaxLinear makes analog or mixed-signal radio chips that can be manufactured in standard chip factories. The chips enable devices to …
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LinkedIn gets a cleaner layout
Professional networking site LinkedIn says its experimenting with a new layout. The redesign has only been rolled out for some users, so Im not seeing it in my own account yet, but the companys blog post suggests its making subtle improvement. Right now, the sites navigation is split between a box o …
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NXP’s sensors for smart Band-Aids, smart bottles, and pay-per-use cars
Forget about smart phones and smart computers. Cheap and plentiful sensor chips are making possible everything from smart Band-Aids to smart bottles. NXP Semiconductors, a chip maker that spun out of Philips in 2006, showed off prototypes for these cool applications at its headquarters in San Jose, …
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Happy Droid Day!
After weeks of speculation, followed by a real announcement, followed by more waiting, Motorola and Verizon have finally released the Droid, the supposed iPhone-killer which is the first device using version 2.0 of Googles Android operating system. The reviews have been positive so far, with gadget …
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Happy Droid Day
After weeks of speculation, followed by a real announcement, followed by more waiting, Motorola and Verizon have finally released the Droid, the supposed iPhone-killer which is the first device using version 2.0 of Googles Android operating system. The reviews have been positive so far, with gadget …
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Australian Geodynamics wins $90M to make hot-rock power a reality
Geodynamics, a company that draws emissions-free power from hot fractured rocks beneath the earths surface, has just won $90 million from Australias Renewable Energy Demonstration Program. The Hot Fractured Rock (HFR) technique is basically the extraction of the earths heat from broken granite over …
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Sanyo ups solar, battery action as it courts Panasonic
Massive battery-maker Sanyo Electric is looking to be acquired by Panasonic forming an almost invincible force in the energy storage space. Now, to make itself even more attractive as an acquisition, its hiking its investment in the solar and automotive battery segments of its business. The shift m …
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Skype is finally free — eBay settles with Skype co-founders, clearing way for buyout
EBay has settled with the founders of Skype, clearing up some nasty lawsuits that now allows the Internet phone company to be sold to a consortium of investors that includes the Skype co-founders. Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners leads the investor group, and is joined by venture capital fir …
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Ubisoft on the making of James Cameron’s Avatar the Game (video)
Avatar the Game from Ubisoft is one of the major video game releases of the fall. Based on James Camerons Avatar movie, a sci-fi action film debuting on Dec. 18, the game has its own story about a battle between the corporate RDA and indigenous Navi tribe on Pandora, a moon that is blessed with rain …
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James Cameron’s Avatar the Game won’t be as good as the film
Few movies are as eagerly anticipated as James Camerons Avatar, a sci-fi epic that has been almost 14 years in the making and is hitting theaters on Dec. 18. Accompanying the film release is a major video game from Ubisoft dubbed James Camerons Avatar the Game. I got a good look at it this week for …
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