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Yahoo Marketing VP Shane Steele Joins Twitter
Shane Steele, previously VP of global marketing for Yahoo, started at Twitter today as director of sales marketing. She’ll be reporting to Adam Bain, the company’s president of global revenue, who...
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Exclusive: Kno Student Tablet Start-Up in Talks to Sell Off Tablet Part of...
Kno–the much-funded and high-profile Silicon Valley start-up aimed at making tablet computers focused at students–is considering selling off the entire hardware part of the business and is in talks...
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Transphorm Nabs $20 Million From Google Ventures, Kleiner
Yet another “stealth” start-up came out of hiding today with a big Silicon Valley funding. That would be Transphorm, a power conversion technology company, that has raised $20 million more in a Series...
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The Daily Bubble: Lead Generator HubSpot Grabs $32 Million From...
Another day, another honking big funding for another online start-up (and yet another broken embargo too!). It’s like Groundhog Day in Silicon Valley as usual. Today, Cambridge, Mass.-based HubSpot...
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SB Nation Sacks AOL in Raid of Former Engadget Team for Competing New Tech...
Jim Bankoff, the fomer AOL exec responsible for buying Engadget for the Internet portal, has grabbed eight staffers who had recently left the huge tech site amid tensions, in order to start a new...
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Intel Capital, Condé Nast Owner Invest $30 Million in Kno; Intel to Consult...
According to sources close to the situation, Intel Capital and Advance Publications will lead a $30 million investment round in Kno, the high-profile student tablet start-up. In addition to the...
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Former Top Editor Makes Another Talent Raid on AOL's Engadget for New...
I love the smell of blog wars in the morning! Acting as Facebook often does to Google, a new site started by former Engadget editor Josh Topolsky just hired away yet another passel of tech journalists...
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Jawbone Nabs $70 Million in a Jammed Box of Funding
Jawbone, the maker of elegant mobile and wireless devices, has added $70 million in funding to its coffers, with a new investment from J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The San Francisco-based company has...
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Twitter Poised to Close a Two-Stage $800M Funding, With Half Used to Cash Out...
In a move reminiscent of one done by Facebook in 2009, Twitter is close to completing an $800 million funding deal that will include a second part in which around $400 million of the total will be...
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FindTheBest's Kevin O'Connor Talks About Comparison Engine, Now Running Hot...
Last week, after FindTheBest nabbed $6 million in funding from Silicon Valley’s Kleiner Perkins, veteran entrepreneur Kevin O’Connor talked to me about the content platform, which structures data into...
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From Russia With Love: Twitter Confirms "Significant" Funding With DST Global
Without giving any financial details, low down in a blog post this morning, Twitter confirmed it had gotten “significant” new venture funding from DST Global of Russia, as well as from existing...
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Email: Chamath Palihapitiya Decries Airbnb's Recent $112M Funding for Founder...
Here’s some electric weekend reading for those interested in the push and pull between venture investors and start-ups in the frothy Web 2.0 environment. In an email to Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian...
View ArticleExclusive: Pinterest Closes New $27M Round With Andreessen Horowitz Valuing...
Pinterest, the infectious virtual bulletin board site, is poised to close a large round of funding — reportedly more than $25 million — with Andreessen Horowitz, which values the company at $200...
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The Three Ventureers: Andreessen Horowitz Joining Conway and Milner in Y...
Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz said today that it was joining well-known investors Ron Conway and DST Global’s Yuri Milner in the Y Combinator Start Fund, which gives $150,000 to each...
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First Class Ticket: Social Travel Start-Up Gogobot Raises $15M in Funding at...
Gogobot, the social travel site, said it has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. Sources said the valuation for the Silicon Valley start-up was around $70 million. Gogobot...
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Another Googley "Acqhire" -- Contextual Search Start-Up Apture to Join the...
Google has bought Apture, the start-up that makes a browser plug-in that adds additional contextual information to Web pages for the Internet’s most prominent publishers. The financial details of the...
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Digital Marketing Start-Up Thismoment Raises $7.3 Million From Sierra Ventures
Thismoment, the San Francisco-based digital marketing platform provider, said it has raised $7.3 million in its first institutional venture round from Sierra Ventures. Before this funding, the company...
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Sarah Lacy Debuts New Tech Site, PandoDaily -- $2M+ in Funding and Guess...
As has been widely reported, well-known TechCrunch columnist and Silicon Valley journalist Sarah Lacy has a new gig: Running her own new tech news site, which debuts today. (She’s pictured here with...
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CEO Tim Cadogan Talks About OpenX's First Profitable Quarter and Where Ad...
OpenX, the online digital advertising upstart, announced this morning that it had reached profitability for the first time, as well as “exceeding an annualized revenue run rate of more than $100M” in...
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Spotify's Special Projects Head Shakil Khan Moves to Path to Do Same
Shakil Khan, the well-known head of special projects for the popular Spotify music service, is taking a job with the same title at Path, the fast-growing personal social networking start-up. Khan will...
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