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Larry Summers Brings Clout (And Some Baggage) To Silicon Valley

By Sam Gustin Jul. 1, 2011, 12:32am Comments Off

Is Larry Summers about to create waves in Silicon Valley? Two weeks after joining the board of Square, the former Treasury Secretary and Har… Read More »

The Mobile Lowdown 04-26-11: Amazon/Apple; WP7 Checkin; Twitter; Foursquare

By Ingrid Lunden Apr. 26, 2011, 3:46pm Comments Off

Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) looks to get Apple’s “Appstore” suit thrown out; Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)… Read More »

Sharing App Bump Picks Up $16M To Expand Business To Payments And More

By Ingrid Lunden Jan. 11, 2011, 6:09pm Comments Off

Bump Technologies, which makes an app that lets users share information with each other by bumping their iPhones/iPods or Android devices to… Read More »

Multilingual Video Site ViKi Raises $4.3 Million

By Joseph Tartakoff Dec. 9, 2010, 2:00am Comments Off

ViKi, an online video site that licenses the rights to international shows and then adds subtitles to them in various languages, has raised… Read More »

Andreessen Horowitz Backs Imeem Founder’s Mixed Media Labs

By Joseph Tartakoff Nov. 12, 2010, 2:30am Comments Off

Mixed Media Labs, which is behind picplz, an online and mobile app that lets users add special effects to photos, has raised $5 million from… Read More »

Student E-Reader Startup Kno Raises $46 Million

By Joseph Tartakoff Sep. 8, 2010, 9:00pm 1 Comment

Kno, which is making an e-reader designed for students, has raised $46 million in additional equity and debt financing. Known until this spr… Read More »

Foursquare Raises $20 Million In New Round (Finally)

By Joseph Tartakoff Jun. 30, 2010, 3:00am Comments Off

Foursquare, the extremely hot mobile check-in service, has finally raised a new round of funding. Since at least March, venture capital firm… Read More »

Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield’s Online Gaming Startup Raises $5 Million

By Joseph Tartakoff Apr. 1, 2010, 11:15pm Comments Off

Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has raised $5 million in funding for his new online gaming venture, Tiny Speck. Word that Butterfield,… Read More »

Skype About to Be Sold to Investor Group, Including Andreessen's New Firm: Report

By Rafat Ali Sep. 1, 2009, 10:33am Comments Off

Skype is finally about to be sold by Ebay to an investor group, which includes Andreessen Horowitz, the new VC firm headed by Marc Andreesse… Read More »