The light-emitting capacitors (LECs) manufactured by CeeLite are a take on a much older technology called electroluminescent paneling — imagine a large, glowing sheet, as thin as a piece of paper.
LECs can be used for a number of purposes, …
QSecure is a Los Altos, Calif. company that has devised a security measure to prevent theft of credit and debit card information.
The company’s technology centers around a tiny electronic chip embedded in the card’s magnetic strip. When the card …
Tesla Motors, the company making an electric sports car scheduled to hit the market next quarter, is now saying the first release of cars won’t have the promised performance.
Rather, they’ll come equipped with an interim transmissions that the company …
OpenSocial, the Google-led platform to allow applications to be built across social networks, has been criticized as slow moving.
However, progress is being made. Today, social music services iLike and QLoud introduced the first OpenSocial applications for the popular social …
1. Funny or Die raises $15M, despite chance of latter
2. Did White House lead rejection of California’s emissions claims?
3. Redhat CEO Matthew Szulik resigns
4. Startup.com’s Tuzman to save Roo.com
5. Netsuite’s stock soars past $35
6. Cisco’s …
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Travel search engine Kayak has taken on $196 million in additional funding from a prominent group of investors.
It has separately purchased main rival SideStep for $180 million, as well as $20 million in the company’s bank account for …
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
Acorn Cardio raises $22M for heart-failure device (bizjournals.com)
Agile Therapeutics raises $5.6M for women’s health (release)
Polyheal draws $1M for wound healing (Globes)
MatrixBio receives seed funding for cancer diagnostics (release)
Pacira Pharma names David Stack as CEO
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Danger, the company that builds software for the “Sidekick” and other mobile devices, has filed an initial public offering after years waiting hungrily for three years to make such a move.
However, the Palo Alto, Calif., company lives under a …
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Scribd, the fast-growing site that lets you post documents online, has launched two free programs, one to let high-volume publishers organize and market their content, and another to allow educational institutions to store and share information securely online.
The …
Besides straightforward environmental lighting, there are a plethora of uses for light-emitting diodes. Element Labs makes its business in LED applications like advertising, concert lighting, decoration and art installations.
Some of the Element’s displays have appeared at concerts by celebrities …
Purfresh is the new name of Novazone, a Livermore, Calif., company that disinfects and protects water and fresh produce, and which is expanding to cover more aspects of the food business.
Purfresh offers one of a number of companies rushing …
Founded only a few months ago, Acquia is a North Andover, Mass. startup that capitalizes on a content management system written by its co-founder in 2001.
The Drupal platform is an open-source product that can be used to create blogs, …
A couple of months ago, my wife and I visited Seoul, South Korea—a trip that inspired me to come up with a list of technology predictions for 2008 and beyond. The land that brought us bottle service, massive multiplayer online role playing, and paid online casual gaming serves as a good place to consider emerging trends...
The Federal Trade Commission today approved Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, a ruling that was necessary to allay fears the merger may pose a risk to competition.
Now that the merger has been cleared in the U.S., attention turns …
Here’s the latest (updated) action:
1) Kyte.tv raises $15 million
2) Electric Sheep Company lays off 22
3) FCC receives 700MHz auction applications
4) Microsoft signs $500M ad deal
5) GPS devices fly off the shelves
6) Netsuite sets high …
Nirvanix, a San Diego, Calif. storage startup, has received an investment for an amount in the “mid-single digit millions” from Intel Capital, according to the company’s CEO.
That follows an investment of $12 million two months ago, at which point …
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A day after Silicon Valley solar cell company Nanosolar said it has begun manufacturing and sales of its solar cells, rival HelioVolt declared it too is building a solar cell production plant, in its hometown of Austin, Texas.
Both …
Social network Bebo recently hired a bank to help sell itself, we were told by a source. However, the San Francisco company responded to a request for comment, saying it hired the bank to help it “potentially” raise another round …
Vuze, an high-definition internet protocol television service based out of Palo Alto, Calif., has picked up $20 million in a third round of funding.
The company, which was previously known as Azureus, says its downloadable client has been installed 15 …
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Web of Trust is a plug-in for your browser that lets you rate all websites based on their trustworthiness, reliability, privacy and child safety.
It is similar in some ways to the market leader, McAfee’s SiteAdvisor, though WOT relies …
