Lightspeed Venture Partners

Welcome to the 'Lightspeed Venture Partners' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Lightspeed Venture Partners'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Lightspeed Venture Partners”

• VCs Pump Cash Into Solid-state Storage

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 654
  Data center managers aren’t the only ones suddenly charmed by solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing storage needs. A growing number of VCs are also warming to the green, high-performance potential of the storage technology (GigaOM Pro Research, subscription required). With no moving parts to speak of, a ...
  2 days ago

• VCs Pump Cash Into Solid-state Storage

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  Data center managers aren’t the only ones suddenly charmed by solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing storage needs. A growing number of VCs are also warming to the green, high-performance potential of the storage technology (GigaOM Pro Research, subscription required).With no moving parts to speak of, a ...
  2 days ago

• Playdom Raises $43 Million, Receives $260 Million Valuation, Buys Out Trippert Labs and Green Patch Inc.

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 485
  Playdom is one of the biggest competitors of Playfish, a virtual application company that was acquired by EA for $400 million earlier this week . Given that Playdom is one of the very few remaining large virtual application companies, investors want to get in on their business model. Playdom raised $43 million ...
  2 days ago

• Playdom raises $43M for social gaming

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 148
  Playdom, one of three major social gaming companies, has raised $43 million with a huge valuation that reflects how hot the social gaming space has become.Techcrunch reported that the deal valued Playdom at $260 million, pre-money. Investors included New Enterprise Associates, Rick Thompson, Lightspeed Venture ...
  4 days ago

• Playdom Raises $43 Million for Social Online Games

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 579
  Mountain View,Calif. - Playdom, a developer ofonline games for social networks whose titles include "Mobsters," hasraised a $43 million first round of funding, led by New Enterprise Associates, TechCrunchreported. read more
  4 days ago

• Kosmix issues $238K more in stock after CruxLux buy

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 787
  Kosmix , a search engine that provides comprehensive pages of information in response to queries, has brought in $238,000 from a new stock issuance related to its recent acquisition of CruxLux , a startup that determines connections between people, places and things. Based in Mountain View, Calif., Kosmix is backed ...
  6 days ago

• Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via CrunchBase Silicon Valley may have discovered the perfect business: charging real money for products that do not exist. These so-called virtual goods, like a $1 illustration of a Champagne bottle on Facebook or the $2.50 Halloween costume in the online game Sorority Life, are no more than a ...
  1 week ago

• The Money Is In ‘Virtual Possessions’ Now.

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 605
  There seems to be an all new trend in the field of online shopping and that is the purchase of virtual items, that decorate your social network profiles, e-mail inbox, IM chat windows etc., instead of beautifying your living room. That’s right, nowadays users are more than willing to buy wines, e-cards, toys and ...
  1 week ago

• Link_A_Media takes $18M for data recovery

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 787
  Link_A_Media Devices , maker of technology used to recover and transmit data on storage devices, has brought in $18 million in a first round of funding. The Santa Clara, Calif. company is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners , Keynote Ventures , SunAmerica Ventures, and Itochu Technology Ventures.
  1 week ago

Comments about Lightspeed Venture Partners