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  • June 2008

    • The Next Big Web Start-Ups

      newser  |  MIT Technology Review  |  Jun 28, 08 6:04 AM CDT

      The Next Big Web Start-Ups

      What’s next in the wide world of Web?  MIT’s Technology Review lists 10 up-and-coming apps and gadgets to make communicating even easier: Pinger . Like texting, but with your voice: leave voice messages for your friends on the company’s server. Pownce . A microblogging service like Twitter—but users can send large files back and forth, too. Qik . Broadcast live to the Internet using just your mobile phone. Dash Navigation . Road-ready Internet access that lets drivers grab traffic info on the fly. Ushahidi . To help get the word out during disasters, text messages appear on a web-based map showing the texter’s location. More »

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      Internet  • website  • gadget  • Web 2.0  • startup  • Internet applications

    • Angel Investors Profit From Slumping Markets

      newser  |  Portfolio  |  Jun 18, 08 4:26 PM CDT

      Angel Investors Profit From Slumping Markets

      The bearish market hasn't stopped angels from acting like bulls, Portfolio reports. Angel investors, those who fund start-ups and small companies, are profiting from Wall Street's woes: Reduced private equity funding has made angels the go-to source for capital, improving their bargaining position and giving them more chances to invest. More »

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      business  • private equity  • credit market  • investing  • startup

  • May 2008

    • Software Brings Autism Therapy Into Homes

      newser  |  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  |  May 1, 08 8:00 PM CDT

      Software Brings Autism Therapy Into Homes

      A Seattle software company is offering new hope to parents of autistic children who struggle to get, and afford, behavioral therapy, which can cost upward of $30,000 a year and isn't usually covered by insurance. Jigsaw Learning has created a game-like computer network, called TeachTown, that provides some aspects of the therapy, the Post-Intelligencer reports. More »

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      software  • autism  • startup  • treatment  • cognitive behavioral therapy

  • April 2008

    • Startup Flops Leave Little Trace Beyond For-Sale Sign

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Apr 28, 08 2:11 PM CDT

      Startup Flops Leave Little Trace Beyond For-Sale Sign

      A failed start-up doesn't spell purgatory for entrepreneurs with the right connections, the Boston Globe reports. Take Mort Rosenthal, who struck gold in the 1980s as a software entrepreneur, only to launch two flops—one in alternative medicine, the other in cell-phone retail—with millions in lost venture capital. Now he's back in the game with a business backed by $20 million Microsoft dollars. More »

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      Microsoft  • Steve Ballmer  • venture capital  • startup

    • IAC Plans Wave of Web Startups

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 10, 08 6:45 AM CDT

      IAC Plans Wave of Web Startups

      IAC/Interactive Corp plans to launch a host of new websites as it readies to split off some of its older ones into separate companies, the Wall Street Journal reports. RushmoreDrive.com, a search engine aimed at the black community, goes live today. Other startups, including a news site, a personal finance site, and one targeting tweeners, will be up by summer. More »

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      Internet  • African Americans  • startup  • Barry Diller  • IAC/InterActiveCorp  • Ask.com  • Match.com

    • Sinking Market Forces New Venture-Capital Strategies

      newser  |  CNET  |  Apr 3, 08 4:25 PM CDT

      Sinking Market Forces New Venture-Capital Strategies

      Venture capitalists are watching economic indicators carefully, trying to find safer places to put their mountains of money, CNET reports. The stats on first-quarter VC activity will land soon, and though experts don't expect dollar totals to have waned, players are “under pressure to invest in quality companies that have a clear business model,” one watcher said. More »

  • March 2008

    • Chat Rooms Return—in 3-D

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 31, 08 11:11 AM CDT

      Chat Rooms Return&mdash;in 3-D

      A group of Silicon Valley startups is looking to bring the "social" back into social-networking and other popular websites, the New York Times reports. Vivaty is developing 3-D virtual chat rooms users can embed in web pages—including social-networking profiles—and will begin Facebook testing this week. And Meebo’s 2-D chat rooms, launched last year, have proliferated fast. More »

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      Internet  • Facebook  • social networking  • Silicon Valley  • startup  • chat room  • Meebo

    • Auction-Rate Troubles Hit Silicon Valley Startups

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 14, 08 10:46 AM CDT

      Auction-Rate Troubles Hit Silicon Valley Startups

      A freeze in the market for a type of securities known as auction-rate securities may cause big cash-flow problems for many Silicon Valley startups. A number of private companies have large chunks of cash tied up in the securities, reports the Wall Street Journal . Now, buyers have dried up and they may have to sell at a big loss, if at all. More »

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      Silicon Valley  • investing  • venture capital  • startup  • JetBlue  • investment banks  • securities  • cash flow

    • Free Tool Offers Web Security

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 7, 08 11:12 AM CST

      Free Tool Offers Web Security

      A new free system designed to protect Web surfers from dangerous code is taking on the software security giants, reports the Wall Street Journal . Developers say Haute Secure, the brainchild of ex-Microsoft security experts, blocks Web pages embedded with malicious code. The public can download the program free, and companies who want their Web sites scanned for problem code will pay a fee. More »

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      Internet  • Microsoft  • technology  • Internet security  • startup  • phishing  • malware  • Symantec  • McAfee

  • February 2008

    • You've Got No Mail: DC Techies Ponder Life After AOL

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Feb 18, 08 10:12 AM CST

      You've Got No Mail: DC Techies Ponder Life After AOL

      AOL is moving its HQ to New York, cutting nearly half of its 5,700 DC-area jobs, and leaving serious questions about the Washington, DC area’s tech industry in its wake. AOL’s declining fortunes have already hurt the sector, but local techies and VCs have fought back with numerous startups, reports the Washington Post . More »

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      Google  • New York City  • Facebook  • Washington DC  • AOL  • startup  • tech industry  • venture capitalists  • tech sector  • Dulles

    • Startups in Silicon Valley Tighten Belts

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 15, 08 10:16 AM CST

      Startups in Silicon Valley Tighten Belts

      Companies in Silicon Valley are slowing spending and stockpiling funds to prepare for a possible recession, with many startups raising safety-net cash from investors. Venture capitalists, who raised more funds last year than any year since 2001, continue investing, reports the Wall Street Journal , despite a recent survey that found their confidence in the region at a four-year low. More »

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      recession  • Internet advertising  • Silicon Valley  • venture capital  • startup  • budget cuts

    • Move Over, Silicon Valley

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Feb 8, 08 4:40 PM CST

      Move Over, Silicon Valley

      Baby Bills, Jeffs, and Sergeys—start-ups founded by veterans of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google and nicknamed for their founders—are sprouting up around Seattle as the city becomes the next hot technology incubator, the New York Times reports. With the University of Washington playing the role Stanford does in Silicon Valley, and Amazon and Microsoft drawing tech talent, young companies are cross-fertilizing. More »

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      technology  • Silicon Valley  • Seattle  • venture capital  • startup

  • January 2008

    • Tech Pioneers Try Parallel Startups

      newser  |  MarketWatch  |  Jan 29, 08 4:06 PM CST

      Tech Pioneers Try Parallel Startups

      With the cost of startups falling, more and more entrepreneurs are hedging their bets by developing two or more projects at once. Joshua Rosen, who is planning to launch two different companies at technology conference DEMO tomorrow, lets MarketWatch take a look. “We see a lot of serial entrepreneurs,” said a DEMO exec, but Rosen “is the first simultaneous entrepreneur." More »

      Tags

      Silicon Valley  • venture capital  • startup

    • Small Company Promises SF Free WiFi

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jan 4, 08 4:47 PM CST

      Small Company Promises SF Free WiFi

      A tiny startup has a plan to blanket San Francisco with free Internet access and revive the floundering municipal wireless concept. Meraki Networks hopes to enlist city residents to install free radio repeaters atop their homes, which would be simpler and cheaper than placing them on public property, as Google and EarthLink planned to do, the AP reports. More »

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      Google  • Wi-Fi  • startup  • municipal wireless  • EarthLink

  • December 2007

    • Google Mafia Aims to Take Over Silicon Valley

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Dec 28, 07 4:42 PM CST

      Google Mafia Aims to Take Over Silicon Valley

      Stock options have turned a growing number of Google employees into millionaires, and they’re not sitting on the money. Google alumni are becoming a force in Silicon Valley venture capitalism, pumping money into likely-looking startups. Now, they’re hoping to organize, the New York Times reports. “We are planning to bring all the ex-Googlers… together to tighten up the network,” one said. More »

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      Google  • venture capital  • startup

    • New Tools Will Mash Up Phone, Mobile, & Net

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Dec 17, 07 3:04 PM CST

      New Tools Will Mash Up Phone, Mobile, &amp; Net

      A startup called Ribbit today unveiled a tool to let developers create voice communication applications that unify Internet-based and traditional telephony services, including phones and text messaging. Developers can include voicemail and calling functions, and can embed their apps in Web pages and Web-based services, reports Reuters. The platform supports Internet calling systems such as Skype. More »

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      telecommunications  • startup  • software developers  • Internet phone  • IP telephony  • platforms

    • Tech IPOs Back, But With a Difference

      newser  |  MarketWatch  |  Dec 5, 07 11:10 AM CST

      Tech IPOs Back, But With a Difference

      Tech IPOs are back--but this time around, things are more subdued than in the heady days of the dot-com boom. These days, tech startups wait until they are profitable, or at least cash-flow positive, before making a public debut, MarketWatch reports. The strong performance of VMWare's August IPO has boosted investor confidence in the tech IPO market. More »

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      Facebook  • credit crisis  • IPO  • startup  • VMWare

  • October 2007

    • Meebo Joins Facebook as Platform

      newser  |  Fortune Magazine  |  Oct 31, 07 4:34 AM CDT

      Meebo Joins Facebook as Platform

      Meebo, an instant-messenger startup, is following in the footsteps of Facebook by allowing certain hand-selected developers to create new widgets for its pages. Unlike Facebook, however, it plans to lure developers by offering them half the revenue gained from the features they create and will sell the ads itself, instead of leaving the task to the more code-oriented developers. More »

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      Facebook  • Internet advertising  • startup  • software developers  • widget  • platforms  • application  • Meebo

    • Startup Rips Labels Out of iTunes

      newser  |  CNN  |  Oct 17, 07 6:39 PM CDT

      Startup Rips Labels Out of iTunes

      Your band doesn't need a record label to find fame on iTunes, says the founder of the new digital music company TuneCore. All you need are your songs, and its helping hand to get a 10-track album into Apple's online store for the price of a "six-pack and a pizza."  TuneCore lets individual artists market themselves, then pocket all the sales after Apple takes its cut. More »

      Tags

      music industry  • music downloads  • iTunes  • music label  • startup

  • September 2007

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