Roundup: VC tax fails, Feedster folds, and more
Here’s the latest [updated] action:
1) NVCA thanks the Senate for blocking VC tax
2) Feedster goes belly-up
3) David Chao is new head of Doll Capital
4) Asian telcos may finally find a US toehold
5) Biofuels could be worse than gasoline
6) TechForward raises financing
7) Facebook blocked in Syria
Senate blocks carried interest tax — The National Venture Capital Asoociation expressed its gratitude to the US Senate for dropping a provision to change carried interest tax rates, again. This isn’t… Continue Reading
Roundup: Solar-motorbike, Webwag, Marchex, Google Gadget Ventures, more
Here’s the latest (updated) action:
The solar-powered motorbike from SunRed in Spain — Read the little story about how the company hopes to make a prototype soon, and needs venture capital to do so.
Marchex launches huge Web site — The public company said it has launched more than 100,000 local and vertical Web sites, publishing more than one billion pages of content for hoping to bait people surfing online. These are third-rate sites, originally filled with advertising, but… Continue Reading