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• Twitter confirms major cash boost

  
  Ya devi sarvabhuteshu matri rupena samsthita, Namas tasyai, Namas tasyai, Namas tasyai namo namah. — Authority: 131
  Social networking website Twitter has confirmed that it has closed a “significant round of funding”.Co-founder Evan Williams said in a blog post that the site had secured money from five investment firms.However, he did not confirm earlier reports that suggested the firm had managed to secure $100 million (£62m), ...
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• Im Joining the Open Office Hours Movement, November 24th

  
  Innovation Economy — Authority: 513
  I think theres a new trend surfacing in Boston: the Open Office Hours movement. The idea is that you create a time slot in your busy schedule when anyone can come meet with you and get some free face time (and perhaps some good advice.) Basically, there are no strings attached -- its just a chance to get a slice of ...
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• Mobile Broadcast Firm IPWireless Lands $15.5 Million

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 583
  San Francisco - IPWireless, a San Francisco-based developer of mobile broadband and broadcasttechnology, said on Wednesday that it has raised $15.5 million in its firstround of funding, led by Spark Capital. read more
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• Network equipment company IPWireless restarts with $15.5M

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  IPWireless , a maker of mobile network equipment, has raised $15.5 million in a new first round of institutional funding. The company previously raised $235 million and was acquired by NextWave Wireless in 2007, but NextWave sold the company back to its founders last year, according to Dow Jones VentureWire . The new ...
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• Staying The Course

  
  mokoyfman.com — Authority: 516
  There’s been a lot written lately about VC seed programs and some of the issues they present for entrepreneurs.  Most notably, Chris Dixon has written a number of excellent posts on the topic.  See here and here . We’ve approached seed investing at Spark a bit differently, and we think it helps alleviate ...
  3 weeks ago

• Spark, Bezos Back Aviary, American Well Nabs $10M, Virdante Banks $30M, & More Boston-Area-Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 702
  Roundup , deals , VC Rebecca Zacks wrote: An unusually high percentage of this week’s New England tech and life sciences deals came from companies based in Boston proper. What’s up with that? — Spark Capital of Boston led a $7 million Series B investment in Long Island, NY-based Aviary. Backed ...
  4 weeks ago

• NBC Grabs a High Profile Blogger to Boost its Local Site: Eater Cofounder Ben Leventhal

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 748
  If you follow the New York blog and/or blog/foodie scene, this one’s for you. The rest of you folks can probably move on. OK? OK. Ben Leventhal, cofounder of the influential Eater blog, is headed to GE’s NBC Universal (GE), where he’ll oversee “lifestyle content” for NBC’s growing local Web unit. More ...
  4 weeks ago

• Twitter Has Big Plans For $100 Million In Funding

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 699
  Twitters habit of raising tons of money - and not having any significant and regular source of income - has led different onlookers to theorize that its burn rate is anywhere between "moderate" and "Hindenburg."  However, one investor recently shared what fans should find to be some comforting details about the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Amazon Teams Up With Microsoft for E-Books, Bing Goes Real-Time, Revolution Computing Reels In $9M, & More Seattle-Area Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 702
  Roundup , deals , VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: It was a big week for big companies. Amazon’s stock soared, and the e-commerce giant made a deal with Microsoft that should make Kindle e-books even more popular. There was also interesting deals news from Bing and a few Northwest venture firms and startups. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos Invests In Aviary

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 488
  Aviary is a web-based software company that has designed applications such as Image Editor, Color Editor, Vector Editor, Effect Editor, Screen Capture, Image Markup, and Audio Editor. Aviary is based in Long Island, New York. And now the company has raised $7 million in Series B from Jeff Bezos (founder and CEO of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Aviary Raises $7 Million for Online Editing Software

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 583
  Long Island,N.Y. - Aviary, a provider ofonline digital content creation and editing software, announced on Monday thatit has closed a $7 million second round of financing, led by Spark Capital withparticipation from Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos Bezos Expeditions. read more
  4 weeks ago

• Bezos, Spark Invest $7M in Aviary

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 702
  deals , VC , Software Gregory T. Huang wrote: Boston-based Spark Capital has led a $7 million Series B investment in Aviary, a creative design software startup based in Long Island, NY. Bezos Expeditions, the Seattle-based investment firm of Jeff Bezos from Amazon, participated in the round as an ...
  4 weeks ago

• Palm Pixi Launches Nov. 15 For $99 (After Rebates) [Digital Daily]

  
  LAGAHIT.COM — Authority: 421
  Sprint (S) said this morning that it will begin selling the Palm (PALM) Pixi on November 15. Price $99.99 after a $50 instant rebate and a $100 mail-in rebate. [Details to follow]
  4 weeks ago

• Aviary Gets US$7 Million for Artist Web Start-Up

  
  Education Investment Forum — Authority: 128
  Spark Capital and other investors, including a Jeff Bezo-linked firm, have given Avi Muchnick, Aviary’s founder and chief executive, about US$7 million to get the online start-up running. The top-up of capital is meant to help the company, which provides a service for online art creation, break into two roaring ...
  4 weeks ago

• Jeff Bezos, Spark Capital, Bet on Aviary, a Web-Based Would-Be Adobe

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 748
  Last week, Jeff Bezos made $2 billion in one day, courtesy of a massive spike in Amazon (AMZN) shares . What will he do with the extra dough? Perhaps plow it into more startups like Aviary , a Long Island-based design software company. Bezos, via his Bezos Expeditions fund, has followed up an 2009 investment ...
  5 weeks ago

• Aviary Lets Anyone Create Digital Goods

  
  Bits — Authority: 755
  On the Web, people do more than just consume articles, pictures, music, video and virtual goods. They also create them. Aviary, a start-up in Long Island, wants to make it much easier for people to become creators on the Web. Aviary has just raised $7 million from a new investor, Spark Capital, and from previous ...
  5 weeks ago

• Aviary Lets Anyone Create Digital Goods

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Aviary, a Long Island start-up that makes online software for creating digital images and music, has raised $7 million from Spark Capital and other investors.
  5 weeks ago

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