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Anthony Ha

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Anthony Ha joined VentureBeat in January 2008. He writes primarily about enterprise technology and developer platforms, but also covers about a lot of random startups and miscellaneous cool stuff. (Plus, when he can sneak it in, politics.) Previously, he worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. From 2001 to 2006, he attended Stanford University, where he focused on urban studies, and also received some tech and coding experience. Anthony lives in San Francisco. Help him pretend he's popular on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Well, TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld certainly isn’t pulling his punches. Last week, while most reporters (including me) were writing enthusiastically about the new partnership between Sprint and Clearwire to build a mobile wireless network using WiMax technology, Schonfeld slammed the deal as “a disaster waiting to happen.” Then he followed up on Friday with even more [...]

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Updated with more info about the BlackBerry Bold
Microsoft and Research in Motion are partnering to bring Windows Live services to RIM’s BlackBerry smartphone. In addition to coming right after RIM’s announcement of the new BlackBerry Bold (implying, I guess, that the old BlackBerry was meek; it’s pictured to the left), this news seems to be [...]

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This fall, if our San Francisco Bay Area readers spot a zeppelin overhead, don’t worry — you haven’t been caught in a time warp. It will just mean that a startup called Airship Ventures has succeeded in bringing the zeppelin (an icon of 1930s aviation) back to the United States. The company just raised $8 [...]

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As more and more news floods the Internet, more and more companies are releasing products to help you sift through that flood. One of the latest is socialmedian, a site that uses social networking tools to help users find the articles that are most interesting and relevant to them. The idea, says chief executive Jason [...]

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I just got home from the annual meeting of the National Venture Capital Association, which was a fun experience. This may sound a little weird (especially since I’m not looking to get funding for a startup anytime soon), but it was actually kind of exciting to be in a conference room full [...]

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San Francisco startup Heroku has been rolling out tools to help developers build, deploy and scale web applications, and it has gotten some pretty positive buzz in the process. But that’s just the beginning, says co-founder James Lindenbaum. Heroku has now raised a $3 million first round of financing led by Redpoint Ventures, and that [...]

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John Doerr and Michael Moritz, the most prominent venture capitalists in the world, just squared off at the annual meeting of the National Venture Capital Association. Largely on the basis of their investments in Google, the two men have spent the last few years jockeying for the top spot on Forbes’ annual Midas List — [...]

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Sprint and Clearwire have confirmed yesterday’s reports that they’re teaming up to create a new wireless broadband company. The new company, which will also be called Clearwire, should be the first to create a national mobile network using Intel’s WiMax technology, delivering broadband Internet at a much higher speed than existing 3G networks.
Intel, Google, Comcast, [...]

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After years dominated by lumbering giants like Peregrine Systems and BMC Remedy, the customer service market is ripe for innovation, say executives at a startup called Parature. The company bootstrapped itself for several years, but chief executive Duke Chung sees a coming “land grab” as more companies enter the field and start targeting the smaller [...]

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Here’s the latest action: Sprint and Clearwire to join forces for WiMax venture – The telecom companies, along with Comcast, Time Warner, Google and Intel, are about to announce a $3.2 billion investment in a new wireless Internet company using WiMax technology, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal reports that the new company, [...]

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Cooliris, a startup that’s been developing dynamic and immersive new ways to browse the web, continues rolling out new features for its PicLens browser plug-in. Most promising of the news features is the search capability for video site YouTube. When PicLens launched last June, we were already excited by its ability to create full-screen [...]

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Ribbit, which bills itself as “Silicon Valley’s first phone company,” has been getting a lot of positive attention. The Mountain View startup has created a platform that allows developers to integrate users’ phones into their web applications with minimal fuss. Tomorrow, Ribbit plans to launch Ribbit for Salesforce, the first big showcase of what [...]

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Software maker Aruspex has raised $4 million in a first round of funding, according to VentureWire. The six-year-old startup, based on San Francisco and Melbourne, creates software that helps companies plan for and hire new employees.
The software is mainly used by companies with more than 2,000 employees, and customers include Starbucks and Exxon Mobile. Australian [...]

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Viator, a travel website that specializes in daytime tours, has raised $6.7 million in a third round of funding, according to VentureWire.
The San Francisco startup was founded in 1995 and makes money by purchasing tours at bulk rates than selling them to individuals. It offers 5,500 tours to more than 400 destinations.
The funding was led [...]

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Veodia, which helps businesses create high-quality video content, has raised $8.3 million in a first round of funding.
I last spoke to Veodia chief executive Guillaume Cohen in March when he announced that in addition to Quicktime, Veodia would also support Flash content. At the time, Cohen said Veodia had raised funding, but he couldn’t provide [...]

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FireEye has raised $14.5 million in a third round of funding to continue its efforts to protect consumers and businesses from “botnets”, which are networks of infected and remotely controlled computers.
Ashar Aziz, the company’s founder and chief executive, says FireEye complements traditional antivirus and security programs. Not only does the Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup focus [...]

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Mapping platform maker deCarta has raised $10.5 million of a planned $21 million in a new third round of funding, according to Private Equity HUB. Backers include Norwest Venture Partners, Mobius Venture Capital and Cardinal Venture Capital.
The San Jose startup has created a platform and software that companies can use to integrate mapping, routing and [...]

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Surf Canyon, creator of a browser add-on that helps you find more relevant results in a Google, Yahoo or MSN search, has raised a $600,000 seed round from angel investors, according to TechCrunch.
I wrote about Surf Canyon in February, when the company launched its Firefox and Internet Explorer add-on. Once you’ve installed it, a bullseye [...]

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MarketLive, a provider of e-commerce retail technology and services, has raised a new $20 million round of financing.  Backers include new investors JAFCO Ventures and Northgate Capital,  as well as Sequoia Capital, Sigma Partners, Globespan Capital and others.
MarketLive was founded in 1995, and it’s still growing. The Foster City, Calif. company says it added 33 [...]

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NineSigma, a startup that helps corporations solve problems by connecting them to a network of innovators, has raised a $4 million round of funding. The Cleveland startup says it will use the money to enhance existing services and to grow internationally.
The “open innovation” marketplace seems to be heating up — among other news, it’s part [...]

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