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• NormOxys Emerges from Stealth with New Class of Oxygen Drugs for Cancer, Heart Failure

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Biotech , People. Startups , cancer Luke Timmerman wrote: Everyone needs oxygen, and major health problems can pop up when certain tissues get too little or too much. Now a small biotech company based in Wellesley, MA, co-founded by a Nobel Laureate, says it has discovered a new class of drugs that ...
  2 days ago

• Open source: The money is in the cloud

  
  Online Net Meeting — Authority: 126
  For those entrepreneurs looking to make a living from open-source software, Index Ventures general partner Bernard Dallé has some advice: get thee to a cloud strategy. Bernard Dallé (Credit: Index Ventures) Why? At a time when enterprises may be less willing to spend on software, they’re increasingly interested in ...
  2 days ago

• Adconian Media Group buys Joost assets, ending a long saga

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Content network firm Adconian Media Group said today that it has acquired the assets of Joost, the online video service founded by Skype founders and the subject of a lawsuit drama this fall.The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company was founded by Skype and Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. ...
  1 week ago

• Adconian Media Group buys Joost assets

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Content network firm Adconian Media Group said today that it has acquired the assets of Joost, the online video service founded by Skype founders and the subject of a lawsuit drama this fall.The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company was founded by Skype and Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. ...
  1 week ago

• Sez Who? Sezmi secures $25MM from Morgenthaler Ventures, Omni Capital, TD Fund, Index Ventures, and Legend Ventures along with an unnamed strategic

  
  Tech Startups 3.0 — Authority: 423
  Sezmi received $25 million in new funding from new and existing investors. Sezmi was founded with an ambitious goal: to redefine the television experience with the first-ever personal television system. Our management team, with its strong and convergent industry strength, realized that no one was tackling a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Boku gains momentum with mobile payments for social games

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Mobile payments provider Boku has gained a lot of momentum as a provider of an alternate payment for social games.The company touted its progress in September, but it has made more progress now. Boku is announcing today that 12 more game developers have signed up to use its mobile payments system. Full told, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sezmi Raises $25 Million, Launches Personalized TV Service

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 584
  Belmont, Calif. - Sezmi, the developer of a TV service that combines traditional TV content,movies and Internet video, announced on Monday that it has raised $25 millionin new funding, and launched a pilot of its service in Los Angeles. read more
  2 weeks ago

• All-in-one TV service Sezmi lands $25M

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  There are a few words that when put together are music to my ears — one of them being “all-in-one.” Startup Sezmi has just landed $25 million in third round funding and is hoping consumers are interested in just that — an all-in-one television service. As more and more companies begin to offer their own ...
  2 weeks ago

• Does Silicon Valleys Spending Spree Signal a Recovery?

  
  DealBook — Authority: 756
  From Bits: Big technology companies are spending $1.5 billion to buy three high-profile startups, after a long drought in acquisitions and initial public offerings.
  3 weeks ago

• EA BUYING SOCIAL NETWORK GAMING COMPANY PLAYFISH FOR $400 MILLION

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 445
  Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) has closed an acquisition deal with Playfish. Playfish is a company that designs games for social networks such as Facebook. EA is spending $400 million to buy out Playfish. Of the $400 million, $300 million will be given upfront and the additional $100 million will be paid as an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Accel Partners Feels Like a Billion Dollars Today…No, Really!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 694
  Who said the venture capital industry is sucking wind lately? Well, it is–but not today, and especially, not Accel Partners, which sold two of its portfolio start-ups to large public companies for a total of $1.5 billion. That would be the sale of AdMob to search behemoth Google (GOOG) for $750 million in stock ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Skype Legal Battle Finally Ends .

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 590
  The long standing legal stand off between Skype, a leading online communications network and one of the largest online shopping websites, eBay has finally come to end with the founders of Skype being awarded a 14% stake in the company along with two seats on Skype’s board of directors. eBay retains 30% rights on ...
  4 weeks ago

• EBay Settles Suit Over Skype Sale

  
  DealBook — Authority: 756
  EBay has formally settled the litigation around its sale of Skype, settling a dispute with the online calling services founders.
  4 weeks ago

• Skype Lawsuit Gets Resolved, Index Ventures Booted Out Of Sale

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 445
  As you may remember, two months ago eBay was planning to spin Skype into an independent company. The buyers who would take control of Skype from eBay included Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Index Ventures, and Silver Lake. However the founders of Skype interrupted the sale ...
  4 weeks ago

• All Is Forgiven: "Its a Clean Slate," Says Andreessen About Lawsuit-Mad Skype Co-Founders

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 694
  Silicon Valley legend and now VC Marc Andreessen was making the interview rounds after the settlement between the litigation-addled co-founders of Skype and all the various people they were suing was announced this morning . He has been tight-lipped until now, due to the morass of lawsuits. But, as Andreessen told ...
  4 weeks ago

• Silly Skype Soap Opera Finally Canceled

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 690
  The fight for Skype has ended. After weeks of nasty legal sparring , the Internet telephony service’s founders agreed to join the investor group purchasing it from EBay (EBAY) and dropped the lawsuit that had threatened to bollocks the deal. “Skype will be well positioned to move forward under new owners with ...
  4 weeks ago

• Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10%

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 887
  eBay has just announced that it has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype , clearing the way for the sale of the Internet communication company to a consortium formed by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners , Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Index Ventures , a ...
  4 weeks ago

• I Love the Smell of Settlement in the Morning: Skype Founders Set to Get 10 Percent, Option to Buy Three Percent More and Two Board Seats

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 694
  According to several sources close to the situation, barring any unforeseen delay, a deal to settle the Skype imbroglio is likely to be announced around the time the markets open tomorrow. While the massive agreement is not yet officially signed–which will settle three aggressive lawsuits lobbed by Skype’s ...
  4 weeks ago

• Skype Battle Nears End

  
  VoIP & Gadgets Blog — Authority: 494
  Gigaom reports that there is a good chance that a resolution of the lawsuit between the Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis and eBays Skype could be announced as soon as this week. According to Gigaom, a group of private equity investors led by Silver Lake Partners are close to settling their legal ...
  4 weeks ago

• End of Fight Over Skype May Be Near

  
  DealBook — Authority: 756
  The bitter battle over the future of the Internet calling service Skype, which is owned by eBay, appears to be nearing an end.
  4 weeks ago

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