Google Video today will begin showing YouTube videos in its search results, the first step toward integration of the two companies.
When users click on YouTube thumbnails, they will be taken to YouTube to see the video. It is the …
Gynesonics, a Menlo Park company focused on making medical devices for women’s health, has raised $16.5 million in a second round of financing.
The company is developing a device to treat uterine fibroid tumors. The company’s statement is here.
The …
A123Systems, the Watertown, Mass. company selling high-power lithium-ion batteries, said it has raised $40 million more in a fourth round of funding, bringing the total invested in the company to $102 million.
The funding comes amid increased interest by auto-makers …
Sermo, a Cambridge, Mass.-based online community created for physicians, said it has raised a $9.5 million second round of funding.
The round was led by new investor SoftBank Capital, with additional funds from existing investors Longworth Venture Partners who initially …
Loadstar Sensors, Inc., a Mountain View maker of sensors that measure forces and loads, said it has raised $7 million in a second round of financing.
The sensors are build for automotive, aerospace, medical device, and industrial applications.
According to …
Sony BMG and Warner Music are working with Seattle-based Melodeo to take mobile music downloads to cell phones in Asia.
Here is the full statement. John Cook has more here.
Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group are tossing …
Toronto, Canada’s Bioscrypt, a provider of technologies that help companies control access to their facilities, said it will acquire A4Vision, the Sunnyvale, Calif. provider of 3D facial imaging and recognition technology.
Concurrent with the completion of the merger, institutional investors …
Zing Systems, a Mountain View, Calif. company that provides wireless download access for mp3 or digital players, has secured $12.5 million of a planned $13.41 million third-round of funding, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Wire.
IDG Ventures …
Widgets can do anything.
We just wrote about Box.net’s widget, which lets you store and share files on any web site.
Now, with new Chicago start-up Leafletter, we’re nearing full-circle with this widget-mania. Leafletter lets you build a mini Web …
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Box, a Palo Alto start-up, has released a way for people to store their files directly at a widget, and let anyone see and share them too. Its simplicity is catchy.
The Flash-based widget can be placed on your …
President Bush's vision is to rely on ethanol from corn and other cellulosic sources such as wood chips. But it may be equally important to all of us, if the next “Tiger in our tanks†are tiny “Creatures from the Black Lagoon.†Yes, algae. (In fact, much of the oil we use today comes from dead algae that is thousands of years old.)
Iconix Biosciences, a Mountain View, Calif. gene expression profiling provider, has received $4 million in seventh round of funding from a research and licensing pact with Eli Lilly & Co., according to VentureWire (sub required):
Through the agreement with Lilly, …
A Fort Lauderdale ethanol company, Losonoco, is planning to build four plants in Florida to produce 300 million gallons of ethanol annually from agricultural and yard waste.
Moreover, according to VentureWire (sub required) it has raised $5 million in initial …
In his State of the Union, the President proposed to reduce U.S. gasoline consumption by 20 percent over 10 years — through improved vehicle fuel standards and greater use of alternative fuels such as ethanol.
He refers to the “serious …
Roundup of the latest action in Silicon Valley & tech:
PayPal’s origin explored, one more time — Online payments company Paypal has spawned more Internet entrepreneurs from its founding team than any other company we know. Yet PayPal had a …
Segway, the maker of the high-tech scooter-like self-balancing vehicles, has raised $10.12 million of a planned $20 million third round of capital, according to a regulatory filing cited by PEhub.
When it launched, the Segway was hyped as the next …
EEStor, the obsessively secret company backed by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, will unveil its new battery technology this year — promising to make electric vehicles much more compelling.
Technology Review has the scoop:
The company boldly claims that its …
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We’re a little perplexed by this.
Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz (pictured left) says the cash infusion from KKR will be used to pursue growth, but then says we “certainly don’t need the money.” Was he misquoted or are …
Tellme, a Mountain View, Calif. voice recognition company, has launched a notable mobile voice search feature.
On a Java-enabled phone, you hit the “talk” button, and say the name of city and state you are searching in. Then you say …
Achronix Semiconductor, a San Jose company developing “multi-GHz Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)” technology, has raised a $25.4 million first round of venture backing.
New Science Ventures (of New York) and Battery Ventures led the round, which also included Entrepia …
