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• Does Silicon Valleys Spending Spree Signal a Recovery?

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  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.
  7 hours ago

• Google acquires Admob for USD 750 Million.

  
  Wireless Federation — Authority: 415
  Google has just announced that it has acquired AdMob, the mobile advertising company, for $750 million.Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, DFJ and Northgate Capital will see a huge upside from this investment.AdMob founder Omar Hamoui sent the following letter to customers:Today we announced that AdMob has signed a ...
  1 day ago

• AdMob Is “Approaching A $100 Million” Revenue Run-Rate. Google Thinks It Can Be Billions.

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 163
  When Google CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned a few weeks ago that the M&A spigot is now back on at the search giant, he wasn’t talking about a trickle. Today’s announced deal to by mobile ad startup AdMob for $750 million is Google’s largest acquisition since its $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick in March, ...
  2 days ago

• Google Acquires AdMob and Gizmo5, Plus Playfish Acquired by EA

  
  Crenk — Authority: 542
  It has been a very big day in acquisitions for both Google and Accel partners. Google has announced that they have acquired Admob and Gizmo5 . Admob is a mobile advertising network in which cost Google $750 million. AdMob founder Omar Hamoui sent the following letter to customers: Today we announced that ...
  2 days ago

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

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 736
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Advanced Power enters week-long rebranding cocoon

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 146
  Advanced Power Projects, a company that revamps power plants to make them greener and more energy efficient, will shutter this week, in hopes of reemerging next week as a brand new company with a more expansive roadmap, according to Dow Jones VentureWire.Based in Fremont, Calif., the company offers a wide array of ...
  2 days ago

• Google Acquires AdMob for $750 Million in Stock (Plus the Press Release and Video With CEO)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 736
  Google has acquired AdMob for $750 million, a huge price for an innovative start-up that has pioneered online ads on mobile and now smart phones. BoomTown visited AdMob last fall and posted about how it was likely to eventually be acquired by… Google (GOOG)! (Google has provided a primer on the sale , which ...
  2 days ago

• Eventbrite scores $6.5M for online event coordination

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 783
  Eventbrite , a web-based company that tracks event invitations, ticketing and RSVPs for large events, has brought in $6.5 million in equity, debt, rights and security from Sequoia Capital , according to a filing with the SEC. Based in San Francisco, it is also backed by European Founders Fund . Bebo founders Michael ...
  2 days ago

• Eventbrite Lands $6.5 Million for Event Registration Service

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 568
  San Francisco - Eventbrite, a provider of online event planning and registration services,has raised $6.5 million in new funding led by Sequoia Capital, TechCrunchreported, citing a regulatory filing. read more
  6 days ago

• Missed Startup School? Watch The Stream

  
  Kikabink News - Internet Marketing News — Authority: 479
  Did you miss Startup School? Sponsored by The Berkeley CSUA, St@b, BASES, and Y Combinator, Startup School was a free, one-day event held at UC Berkeley held on October 24, 2009 for company founders... (Click on the title for the full story...)
  1 week ago

• Loopt aims for that mobile, social and real-time sweet spot with Pulse

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 783
  Mobile social network Loopt is getting into the real-time game with Pulse, which will bring recommendations for things to do to depending on where you are and what’s popular at the moment. It pulls in data from content partners like Zagat, Daily Candy and Thrillist along with its own users’ activity to figure ...
  1 week ago

• Chinese Movie Studio Eyes N.Y.S.E. Listing

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  A third leading Chinese movie studio is aiming for a listing -- this time on the New York Stock Exchange -- as the countrys entertainment companies turn to the capital markets to raise funds.
  1 week ago

• Venture Firm Sets Up $575 Million Fund

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  Greylock Partners, which has backed Facebook and LinkedIn, announced Monday that it had put together a new $575 million fund, one of the biggest to be created in the last year.
  1 week ago

• Visiting Y Combinator’s Startup School with Ev, Zuckerberg, and Hsieh

  
  Black Web 2.0 — Authority: 549
  I decided to make the trek out to Berkeley to check out this year’s Startup School (and to let it serve as a serious peptalk–it’s working).  Startup School has been held since 2006 by the folks behind Y Combinator, a venture capital firm that specializes in funding early stage startups.  Teams can raise up to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unity Technologies Secures $5.5 Million for Game Platform

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 568
  San Francisco - Unity Technologies, the provider of a multi-platform game developmentplatform for the Web, consoles and mobile devices, announced on Monday that ithas raised $5.5 million in its first round of venture capital financing, led bySequoia Capital. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Sequoia, Angel Investors Back Game Developer Unity Technologies With $5.5 Million

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 897
  Unity Technologies , the San Francisco company behind the eponymous multi-platform game development platform, has now closed its first round of funding. The Series A financing was led by Sequoia Capital like we reported last week and apparently also included some Silicon Valley notables like David Gardner , the CEO ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sequoia Capital Invests In Bump Technologies, The iPhone-Tapping Data Swap App

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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  2 weeks ago

• Startup School: Sequoia’s Greg McAdoo On The Opportunities Of A Recession

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 163
  I’m here at UC Berkeley for Y Combinator’s Startup School 2009, where the startup incubator has invited hundreds of entrepreneurs from around the country to listen to some of Silicon Valley’s most accomplished founders and investors share their advice on building a new company. Sequoia Capital Partner Greg ...
  2 weeks ago

• Twilight of the venture gods: Is Sequoia spreading itself thin?

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 783
  Along with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers , Sequoia Capital is probably the most famous venture capital firm around, but it may have overreached in the last couple years, writes Adam Lashinsky in Fortune. Lashinsky writes that Sequoia  attempted to branch out from venture capital into a broader range of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Isilon, Forged in Fire of Last Recession, Looks to Expand Its Data Storage Business in This One

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  Software , IT , Data Storage Gregory T. Huang wrote: Some tech companies seem to be at their best when things are at their worst. Those are the ones you really need to keep an eye on, especially in a recession. Isilon Systems is one of those companies. The Seattle-based data storage firm (NASDAQ: ...
  2 weeks ago

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