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Video player Kaltura adds 2 new partners, new monetization tools
Kaltura, a popular open-source video solutions company, is announcing two new partnerships this week: one with LongTail Video to bring that companys popular open-source video player JW Player to Kaltura, and one with Artivision, a company creating video monetization tools. These partnerships have hu …
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Smart Grid Index-based Fund launches on Nasdaq
The NASDAQ OMX Group has launched a new exchange traded fund (ETF). Called the First Trust NASDAQ(R) Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund (Nasdaq: GRID). Based on their Smart Grid Infrastructure Index (QGRD), the ETF is managed by First Trust Advisors and listed on NASDAQ. QGRD is a mark …
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GreenBeat dives into the Smart Grid in T-3 hours!
The seminal conference on the Smart Grid has arrived. Our two-day inaugural GreenBeat conference kicks off this afternoon at the San Mateo Marriott, bringing together 400 utility, finance, political and entrepreneurial leaders working to make our electrical grid cleaner, reliable and more efficient. …
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LinkedIn lands in your Microsoft Outlook inbox
LinkedIn became the second of Silicon Valleys biggest social networks to make a compelling distribution move this week. Its landed in your inbox quite literally if you have Microsoft Outlook. Theyve partnered with Microsoft to launch the Outlook Social Connector, which will deliver LinkedIn updates …
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Cloud antivirus company Immunet raises $2M
Cloud antivirus solutions, which tap web-based computing resources, are becoming more popular as security firms seek better ways to protect consumers from malware attacks. Thats evident in the funding announced today by Immunet, a cloud antivirus startup that has raised $2 million in funding from Al …
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GoodGuide lets you scan barcodes to find the most ethical products
GoodGuide, one of my favorite applications for the iPhone, just got a cool new feature barcode scanning. Users could already consult the app for data on whether a product was healthy, environmentally-friendly, and socially-responsible, but now you dont have to type in a search. Just scan the barcod …
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Is Google working on its own Android phone?
Google isnt content making the Android software that runs on cell phones and other devices. Now it is apparently working on its own Google-branded Android phone, according to Techcrunch. The upcoming Android device will be thinner than a Motorola Droid (another recently launched Android phone on Ver …
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Salesforce.com announces Chatter, another social network for companies
Salesforce.com announced today that its going to join the hordes of companies offering a social networking for your business. With a new product called Salesforce Chatter, companies get their own secure, private social network where they can collaborate and communicate in real-time. Its a crowded ma …
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Profitable Paltalk acquires Vumber for phone number privacy services
Paltalk, the profitable chat startup that bought back its own stock earlier this year, acquired Vumber to offer phone number privacy services today. They didnt disclose the acquisition price but Vumber had 3,000 paying subscribers and a monthly rate of $9.95 per month. Vumber gives you an extra num …
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Salesforce.com launches Chatter, another social network for companies
Salesforce.com announced today that its going to join the hordes of companies offering a social networking for your business. With a new product called Salesforce Chatter, companies get their own secure, private social network where they can collaborate and communicate in real-time. Its a crowded ma …
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CIA’s In-Q-Tel funds FireEye anti-botnet security firm
The CIAs In-Q-Tel investment arm took a stake today in FireEye, which is creating an anti-malware platform for enterprises. Milpitas, Calif.-based FireEye is working on a platform that can fight off botnets, which are fleets of zombie computers that have been taken over by criminal hacker rings. The …
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As Midas List dies, AlwaysOn offers a new selection of top VCs
Folks wanting to identify the top venture capitalists will have to look at a new source from now on. Forbes annual Midas List, in which the magazine ranked the VCs who saw the best returns in the past five years, is reportedly dead. Meanwhile, online network and conference company AlwaysOn has relea …
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Modern Warfare 2 continues to blow away entertainment records
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has set the all-time entertainment industry record, generating $550 million in sales in its first five days on the market. That number means it has beaten all other video game launches as well as generated more revenue in its first five days than any movie. It has done …
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Placecast lands $5M more for location-triggered mobile advertisements
Today, San Franciscos 1020 Placecast Inc, a company working on new mobile advertising technology, said it raised $5 million in more funding to continue developing its opt-in location-triggered ad service. Placecast, which previously raised $2 million, pushes advertisements from major brands to the c …
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Boston Millennia’s Callow on the state of the VC industry
(Editor’s note: This is a truncated version of an interview that originally ran on VCExperts.com) Dana Callow is the Managing Partner of Boston Millennia Partners. Prior to founding Boston Millennia Partners, Dana co-founded Boston Capital Ventures. In addition to working with Fortune 100 companie …
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Gravity Bear unveils its first social fighting game on Facebook
Game startup Gravity Bear is unveiling its first original game for Facebook today. Battle Punks is a 3-D social game that will debut this holiday season. The game is set in a variety of fantasy locations, combining in-depth game design with social networking. As such, its one of a new generation of …
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Amimon creates wireless networks to connect PCs and TVs
Chip maker Amimon is announcing today that it has created wireless modules that can connect computers and high-definition TVs so that consumers can effortlessly watch PC content on their TVs. The devices could make it a lot easier to watch PC-based Internet video such as Hulu.com videos, flash media …
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IBM moves closer to creating chips based on the brain
IBM said today that it has made significant progress toward making a computer that simulates and emulates the brains abilities to sense, perceive, interact, and recognize. It can also do so using the brains low-power energy consumption and compact size, and it has the intelligence level that approac …
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Chile’s Austral Capital to help Latin American startups reach the US — and vice versa
Santiago, Chile-based Austral Capital is one of a growing number of Latin American VC firms making names for themselves. Thanks to aggressive support from the Chilean government, the less than two-year old company has funded several Chilean start-ups, including Atakama Labs, which I wrote about earl …
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Norwest Venture Partners raises $1.2B fund
Norwest Venture Partners has has raised a new venture fund of $1.2 billion the eleventh fund in the firms history, and its largest. Managing partner Promod Haque says the new money will help the firm expand in terms of geography, industry, and the type of deal it gets involved with. The fund is so …
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