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• Ontela Merges with Newly Independent Photobucket, Looks to Combine Companies’ Reach on Web and Mobile

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  deals , Mobile , Internet Gregory T. Huang wrote: OK, so there was truth to the rumors. But this is no ordinary merger or acquisition. Seattle-based Ontela , the mobile imaging startup focused on getting pictures off your camera phone, announced today it is merging operations with Photobucket, the ...
  18 hours ago

• Microsoft Buys Opalis and Sentillion, Swype and Widevine Raise Cash, Dendreon Rakes In $409M, & More Seattle-Area Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  Roundup , deals , VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: It was a busy week for Northwest deals, as companies tried to beat the holiday rush. Lots of action in software, mobile, and biotech. —Seattle-based Swype, maker of text-input software for touch screens, raised $5.6 million in a Series B round led by ...
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• Ten years of technology: 2001

  
  Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 138
  As the naughties come to a close, we take a look at the biggest technology stories of the decade - and how the Guardian reported them at the time Sitting here at the tail end of a vast, sweeping recession, it may feel grim out there. Theres a good reason for that: it is. But for the technology industry, few collapses ...
  3 days ago

• AdReady CEO and Former aQuantive Exec Karl Siebrecht on His Big New Opportunity

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  startups , Internet , Leadership Gregory T. Huang wrote: AdReady is one of those startups that everyone talks about but no one really understands. At least not most lay readers, whose eyes glaze over once they get past the words “online advertising.” I can’t really blame them. After all, can most ...
  6 days ago

• Bay State Venture Funding Perked Up in November: There Were Even Some Energy Deals

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  VC , startups , deals Robert Buderi wrote: Entrepreneurs and anyone else interested in the Bay State’s high-tech economy had more than Thanksgiving to be thankful for last month. After a big dip in October, venture funding for Massachusetts startups seemed to get cooking again in November, as $186 ...
  6 days ago

• Using Credit Cards to Make More Money

  
  Rich Credit Debt Loan — Authority: 547
  When it comes to credit cards , most of us think of them as a way to get things we really want right now. We may not actually "need" these things, but we sure do want them. Whether its a new couch, a new stereo or even a new wardrobe, we use our credit cards faithfully at the behest of our wanter. However, there is a ...
  6 days ago

• GoodData, Bizo Among AWS Winners

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  startups , Internet , Awards Gregory T. Huang wrote: Amazon Web Services announced today that the winner of its third annual AWS Start-up Challenge is GoodData, a business intelligence and analytics firm based in San Francisco. The company was awarded $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, and an ...
  6 days ago

• Blackbox Republic, No Longer Just Sex Positive, Opens Alternative Social Site

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  Internet , startups , social networks Gregory T. Huang wrote: I wish I could say this is just about sex, but it isn’t. Nevertheless, a lot has changed since we last heard from Blackbox Republic , the Portland, OR-based niche social network that is trying to be a more private and intimate alternative ...
  1 week ago

• How to measure how well an online media company is scaling.

  
  Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog — Authority: 406
  Two years ago I posted about the three ways to grow an online media business to $50 million in revenue. In this article I focused on RPM (Revenue per thousand pageviews, = CPM x sell through rate x # of ad units per page) and drew the distinction between three strategies, and the traffic needed for each strategy to ...
  1 week ago

• Social TV start-up Boxee launches set-top box

  
  Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 138
  Internet TV software maker Boxee has announced its first set-top box from networking gear maker DLink Forget the browser wars, Im much more interested in the battle being waged in the living room. Catch-up video services like the BBCs iPlayer and Hulu in the US are bringing the internet into the living room, not ...
  1 week ago

• Apple Buys Ignition-Backed Lala, Appature Gets Funded, Free & Clear Gets Celebrated, & More Seattle-Area Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  Roundup , deals , VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: It was another fairly quiet week for deals in the Northwest. But there were a couple of first-round venture financings for established software startups, and one notable acquisition. —Portland, OR-based software startup JanRain closed $3.25 million in ...
  1 week ago

• JanRain Lands $3.25M, Looks to Expand Web Identity Offerings, Push Social Publishing

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  Internet , deals , Venture Capital Gregory T. Huang wrote: It has been a busy fall for JanRain . The Portland, OR-based software startup is announcing today it has closed a $3.25 million Series A financing round led by West Coast firm DFJ Frontier. RPM Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners also ...
  1 week ago

• Reports: Apple to Buy Lala, Backed by Ignition, Bain

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  deals , music , rumors Gregory T. Huang wrote: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) is in talks to acquire Lala, a Palo Alto, CA-based online music service backed by Bellevue, WA-based Ignition Partners and Boston-based Bain Capital Ventures, according to Bloomberg and CNET , which each cite anonymous sources. No ...
  1 week ago

• Seattle Layoff Update: Adobe, Microsoft, Real, ZymoGenetics, and Others Cut Staff

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  Layoffs , Jobs , community Gregory T. Huang wrote: ‘Tis the season for layoffs, we’re sorry to say. In the past month, we’ve seen some major staff cuts from the big tech and life sciences companies, as well as startups, around Seattle (see our updated Northwest layoff tracker here ). The carnage ...
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• $443 million for Vertex, $25.5M for Forma, $8M for Contour Semiconductor, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  Roundup , deals , VC Rebecca Zacks wrote: The dollar amounts ranged from the modest (FitnessKeeper) to the mammoth (Vertex) for New England tech and life sciences deals this week. —Boston’s FitnessKeeper, maker of the RunKeeper iPhone application, raised $400,000 from Cambridge, MA-based ...
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• From Swiss Army Knives to Smoking Cigarettes: Google, Bing, and Startups Talk Future of Search

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  Internet , trends , Analysis Thea Chard wrote: The World Wide Web is an overwhelming collection of information, especially when one is faced with the task of sifting through it—and it’s only expanding. In the last few years, the induction of social media into the online realm has added more content ...
  2 weeks ago

• Latest ‘Square’ Details Include Free Dongles, Craigslist, Alyssa Milano

  
  Epicenter — Authority: 704
  Twitter creator Jack Dorsey’s Square application, which is like a smartphone PayPal for credit cards , attracted lots of warranted attention for its potential to enable peer-to-peer and merchant credit card transactions in the real world far beyond what’s capable today in most countries. Since Tuesday’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vulcan Re-ups with Bizo

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 663
  deals , VC , Internet Gregory T. Huang wrote: Seattle-based Vulcan Capital has participated in a $6 million equity funding round for Bizo, an online advertising network and audience targeting platform based in San Francisco. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, with participation from existing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Breakfast briefing: Facebooks privacy changes and Twitter co-founders new project

  
  Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 138
  • Facebook has finally instituted new privacy settings and pulled the plug on local, city-based networks in its attempt. Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg explains it a little in a post on the Facebook blog , suggesting that it is an attempt to "create a simpler model for privacy control" - though whether it pans out ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jack Dorsey on Square, How it Works & Why it Disrupts

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 779
  Square CEO & Co-Founder Jack Dorsey. Photo by Bijan Sabet. In February 2009, Jim McKelvey, who’d left the technology business and became a glass blower, lost an order because he couldn’t accept a credit card from a customer who wanted to buy his creation. He called his friend and Twitter co-founder Jack ...
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