Google is organizing archives and feeds of newspapers around the globe, starting with U.S. newspaper content that has been offline to this point.
Google Vice President Marissa Mayer is expected to announce this, and demo it, at 11:45am at the TechCrunch50 conference. This new data will be served up on Google News and Google News Archives.
Google [...]
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San Francisco entrepreneur Brian McConnell got hosed after selling his third company, Open Communication Systems, to Virtual PBX in Summer 2007. Why? Because he agreed to sell his company, a Web conferencing business, for a small lump sum upfront, and a large performance-based earnout over ensuing years. The earnout could have amounted to about 20 [...]
Our friends at GigaOm are adding to their conference lineup with Mobilize, taking place September 18 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.Mobilize will ask what the growth of the mobile web means for entrepreneurs and their investors. Developments in design, user experience, handset technology, location and wireless network technology are changing the game. [...]
The WSJ has a story today about how investors at Insight Venture Partners made a killing last year when Photobucket was sold to News Corp. for $300 million — even as the firm’s own limited partner’s didn’t make a dime. Scandal, right? I just got off the phone with Jeff Horing (below left), [...]
Seedcamp, a London group that holds a selective week-long boot camp for start-ups, has produced an interesting zeitgeist study of the companies applying to be part of the program.
It looked at the hundreds of applications and created tag clouds to show the most common answers to three of the application’s questions: What are you creating? [...]
Venture investments into mainland China boomed during the second quarter — hitting their highest level in five years.
The trend is likely to continue because of better tax treatment lately for foreign investors there.Investors into private companies pumped nearly $1.37 billion into 71 deals, more than double the $662 million they invested in 69 deals during [...]
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The Federal Communications Commission has approved the much anticipated Google Android phone, and documents suggest a release date of about Nov. 10 at the latest.
That’s because in the document, the manufacturer of the phone, HTC, requests the Commission grant it a short-term confidentiality request on its design attachments until Nov. 10th, 2008.
If Nov. 10 turns [...]
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Venture capital firm EDF Ventures last week subpoenaed the Web site TheFunded, demanding information about a person who left negative comments about EDF.
This evening, VentureBeat has exclusively obtained documents requested by the subpoena. TheFunded’s owner, Adeo Ressi, will likely hand over these documents to the court (which actually issued the subpoena) in ten days or [...]
Bug Labs, a New York company providing a do it yourself service for people who want to build their own electronic devices, has raised a third round of financing from Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and Court Square Ventures, according to CNET.
Bug Labs wants to bring open source to hardware. It draws on outside developers [...]
Until now, Web sites have been surprisingly dumb. They don’t change much to to cater to your specific tastes — and that’s despite all the advances in behavioral targeting technology.
You may be familiar with Amazon.com, which offers you a customized site page on your past book or product selections. And a number of other recommendation [...]
TheFunded, a site that lets entrepreneurs rate venture capitalists, continues to stir things up.
EDF Ventures, a mid-sized venture capital fund in Ann Arbor, Michigan which has been reviewed negatively by several people at the site, has subpoenaed some records from TheFunded in a court action the firm is taking against an entrepreneur who left a [...]
[Update: I've reached a partner at the fund, who requested anonymity because of securities laws governing public statements while fundraising, but he says the PEHub story is bogus. "We've never talked to anyone about an $800 million fund, in print or verbally." Instead, VentureBeat has learned the firm may eventually raise a fund, but the [...]
MyListo, a company offering a Facebook application that provides product reviews from your friends, has finished raising a $250,000 grant from the Facebook Fund.
The Sunnyvale, Calif. company is part of Facebook’s effort to direct money to applications that are more useful than the trivial, time-wasting games that have dominated the application selection so far. Also, [...]
Jajah, the Internet telephone company, today introduced a nifty English-Chinese translation service — perfect for English speaking tourists in China.
Called JAJAH.Babel, the service allows anyone in China to use their mobile phone to call a local number, speak in English and immediately let someone hear their message translated into Chinese Mandarin.
It’s perfect for cab rides [...]
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Silicon Valley high-powered law firm Wilson Sonsini pays $9.5M to brocade to protect itself from civil claims, and Brocade leaves the Wilson Sonsini out of law suit — In a striking development in the valley’s ongoing stock option backdating scandal, Brocade is now suing 10 former executives and board members for the [...]
VentureBeat continues to grow. Our traffic has more than doubled over the past few months, and we’ve expanded our activities.
So we want someone to help manage our business side. We’d first like to ask you – our community of readers – whether any of you are interested, or whether you can recommend someone.
We’re calling this [...]
Tacoda, the well-known ad network company which offers relatively high rates to publishers to place advertisements automatically on their Web pages, is officially shutting down.The entity, recently bought by AOL, is instead being folded into AOL’s Ad.com/Platform A division. This is a shocking move for some, because Ad.com doesn’t target much at all, and offers [...]
Entone, a company that sells a set-top box for Internet television that can distribute video to three different TVs at once, has raised $14.5 million in a second round of financing.
It wants to replace your TiVo.
The box is sold via 25 telecom operators that provide Internet TV services to the home. Right now, the consumer [...]
Keith Benjamin, a long-time Silicon Valley venture capitalist who was still in the prime of his life, passed away on Tuesday. He suffered a subdural hematoma, which is a form of traumatic brain injury, and he was unable to recover. I’ve followed Benjamin’s career over the years, from the boom days [...]
Like.com, a search engine that analyzes images for useful shopping information, has raised double digit millions in venture capital from Silicon Valley venture firm Menlo Ventures.
It’s also on a roll, in terms of both traffic and revenue.
Like.com lets you do things like search for the color, style or texture of shoes you want to buy, [...]
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