XLumena, a Mountain View, Calif. maker of endosurgical devices, has raised $6.15 million for a new line of endoscopic examination tools, according to VentureWire.
The company develop and sell ultrasound devices that are capable of clearly viewing internal organs.
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RockYou, the Silicon Valley widget company that lets millions of people post slide-shows on Web sites and play games on platforms like Facebook, has raised $35 million more in a third round of funding.
VentureBeat learned of …
I wish my memory could get this kind of upgrade. Today, a new kind of chip memory is going to get a boost with the launch of a new venture spin-out company. If it succeeds, we’ll be carrying around much …
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that backed companies like Genentech, Netscape, Amazon.com and Google, said it has hired well-known Sun scientist John Gage as partner.
Gage, an early employee at Sun Microsystems, who more …
What happens when a celebrity gossip magazine like US Weekly collides with a wiki-like web application? Coolspotters.
A few sites (including Like) already match clothes with celebrities, but Coolspotters is a place for users to see, generate, and connect information …
Given all the hype surrounding the 3G iPhone, it’s easy to forget that there will likely be some other products released at tomorrow’s WWDC event. It’s also easy to forget that that WWDC stands for Worldwide Developers Conference — it …
Tomorrow is the start of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Calif. Between the announcement of the 3G iPhone, the launch of the first 3rd-party native applications for the iPhone platform and the inevitable curveball Apple chief executive …
A few days ago I wrote a post wondering if Twitter could stay up during Steve Jobs’ keynote address at tomorrow’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) event. When I asked the company for a comment, Twitter’s Biz Stone responded that they …
We just got done saying that the 3G iPhone leaks were going to be getting a whole lot meatier — and now we have the pictures to prove it.
Tonight, an anonymous tipster sent some supposed 3G iPhone promo images …
We’re three days away from Steve Jobs’ keynote address at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), where he is expected to announce the 3G iPhone. As such, we can expect meatier rumors and actual leaks to start coming in. The first …
Some of you may recognize that Twitter’s recent downtime issues are a result of its architectural problems exposed by its rapid growth. However, back in the day (that is, January and the preceding months), Twitter used to crash the old …
Xumii, a mobile service that lets you access feeds of activity from other social networks and services, is launching a private testing version (beta) next month.
When I first looked at it, I was skeptical. I’ve already written that large, …
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Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week.
PartnerUp is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that helps them find people for their businesses, such as co-founders, business partners, advisors, board members, and skilled technical people. In …
Emissions will jump 130 percent and oil demand 70 percent by 2050 unless governments take immediate action to start a new $45 trillion “energy technology revolution,” according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report.
Halving emissions by mid-century will …
YouTube is launching a new “Reporter” channel, featuring a variety of news related videos submitted by anyone, from amateurs to professionals.
The Google-owned company has been building out its role in the political world already, having co-sponsored presidential debates with …
Electronic Arts is still banned from Liberty City.
Take-Two Interactive bought itself some time with some solid earnings yesterday that beat earnings expectations. That gave a boost to its stock price and it suggests that Electronic Arts is going to …
The back and forth between Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who is attempting to take the company over, is now arguably more entertaining than the formal letter wars during the whole Microsoft/Yahoo debacle.
Icahn recently got FTC approval to …
Are the antitrust regulators out hunting blue targets again?
I remember going out to Washington, D.C., to cover the Intel antitrust trial in 1999. The Federal Trade Commission had accused Intel of using the power of withholding information from its …
Today we’ve opened voting for the best mobile start-ups of 2008.
The winners, as determined by readers, will be invited to present at MobileBeat2008, our conference in July.
To vote, go here. Please vote for the company you think has …
Aside from the ever-present possibility of a real curveball, the clues as to what we’ll see Apple announce at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) are likely out there right now.
Not surprisingly most of the ones we’ve seen revolve …
