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• Tech Mergers Start to Pick Up

  
  Bits — Authority: 768
  Our colleagues at DealBook note that the value and prices of technology mergers and acquisitions picked up in the second half of 2009.According to a research report by the 451 Group, tech bankers believe the deal climate will continue to improve in 2010. Corporate officers aren’t quite as optimistic, however.
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• Silicon Valley to Copenhagen: It’s OK to Fail, If You Do It Right

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 652
  Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on Grist, and is re-posted with permission.By Jonathan Hiskes, Grist Staff WriterCOPENHAGEN—At the “To Be or Not To Be” business summit at Hamlet’s Castle over the weekend, one French executive joked about not trusting a business that was less than 150 ...
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• LinkedIn Takes People Search to Eleven

  
  Psychohistory — Authority: 106
  I apologize for the reference to Spinal Tap , but this is my personal blog after all. I normally don’t post most LinkedIn announcements here, but this one is too big to ignore. On Monday, LinkedIn made faceted search available to all members.  This effort brought to fruition efforts that date back to 2007 to ...
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• Here comes Neato, the Roomba killer

  
  Gadget News and Reviews — Authority: 165
  Theres a new vacuum robot in Silicon Valley: Neato has officially launched and it aims at grabbing the top spot from Roomba, the current champion in the robotic vacuum category. To take on Roomba, Neato is said to solve old problems that iRobot (the company behind Roomba) never really improved (because of the lack of ...
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• kaChing Raises $7.5 Million To Turn Mutual Funds On Their Heads

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• The War Between Apple VS Google

  
  Blog For Noob Dot Com | Noob Blogger — Authority: 127
  Last week, Apple purchased online music site Lala for $85 million. Rumors are already flying that Apple acquired the start up for the quality of its engineers, and most importantly because it wants to move iTunes to the cloud as music streaming is getting more and more mainstream so to speak. There is another reason ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Facebook’s Latest Privacy Betrayal Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone

  
  Twilight in the Valley of the Nerds — Authority: 133
  As the latest privacy-related Facebook controversy exploded in shards of anger, righteous indignation, and disappointment, I was reminded of the lyrics to an old Archers of Loaf song, “What Did You Expect?”. The chorus is good, but near the end of the number, the following words are barely intelligible amid the ...
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• Yahoo Sticks With "Its Y!ou," Expanding Pricey Ad Campaign By Pushing "Hero Products" and Relevance

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 705
  When Yahoo launched its massive advertising campaign–featuring the tagline, “It’s Y!ou”–earlier this fall with splashy events in New York and slick marketing rollouts all over the U.S., not everyone at the Internet portal loved it. “It’s not M!e,” joked a longtime Yahoo (YHOO) exec to BoomTown in an ...
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• Warrior Training: Explaining Womanhood To My Daughters

  
  Silicon Valley Moms Blog — Authority: 466
  A friend was telling me about a Confirmation retreat he ran recently for the young men at his church. (Confirmation is a Catholic sacrament akin to a spiritual coming-of-age.) Although he knew these boys had grown up on Facebook and Nintendo, he was still a bit shocked to find that few of their parents had ever ...
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• MySpace and News Corp. Eye Flixster (But for What?)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 705
  Now that the digital equivalent of a super-vac, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta, has sucked up some decent music start-ups–Imeem and iLike–for a song, to bolster the social networking site’s efforts to expand into an entertainment portal, what’s next? According to several sources, the News Corp. (NWS) unit has ...
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• DEMO and VentureBeat arrive in Austin for a reason — great tech companies

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Bookmark this categoryI’ve just arrived in Austin, Texas, and look forward to meeting local entrepreneurs.I was here just five months ago (see pics of that event), and there’s a good reason why I’m returning. Austin may be merely the 16th-largest city in the U.S., but after Silicon Valley there are almost no ...
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• Dept. of Energy unveils plans to jumpstart clean energy in the developing world

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Bookmark this categoryBy far, the most controversial issue at the U.N.’s climate talks in Copenhagen is how the developed world will help industrializing nations reduce greenhouse gas emissions while not sacrificing growth. Most believe this can’t be done, causing countries like China and India to balk at a ...
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• Turnabout Is Fair Play: BoomTown Decodes Rupes Journalism-Is-Not-a-Free-Cow Op-Ed!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 705
  Last week, BoomTown translated an opinion piece that Google CEO Eric Schmidt had published in The Wall Street Journal, which was focused on defending the search giant from criticism that it was, well, killing journalism. One of the louder critics, in fact, has been Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp. ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
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• A Venture Capitalist Begins a Fund of Funds

  
  Bits — Authority: 768
  Like many businesses these days, university endowments and state pension funds are stretched thin, short on staff and more in need than ever of good research to guide their investing. A venture capitalist has started a new fund of funds to help these institutional investors — known in the industry as limited ...
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• A Venture Capitalist Begins a Fund of Funds

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  Cendana Capital, a new venture capital fund, will invest in other venture funds as well as buyout and distressed debt funds. It hopes to make it easier for institutional investors to diversify their private equity investments.
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• Sustainability Change Agent: Three Tips for Changing the World

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 652
  I had the pleasure of attending Sustainable Silicon Valley’s (SSV) two-day Sustainability Change Agent Training with Alan AtKisson, November 16th and 17th. It was a packed workshop full of information and interactive exercises.  Parts of it fully engaged me and parts of it left me feeling frustrated, so I decided ...
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• Maybe Googlers Eat Their Own Dog Food, But Will It Be Tasty to Anyone Else?

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 705
  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Leave it to Google to compare its most aggressive new product to date to one that often includes meat by-products, bone meal, brewer’s rice, corn syrup and– yum! –”dried animal digest.” But that’s exactly how the Silicon Valley search giant ...
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• Nexus Is a Perfect Name for the Trekkies of Google! (The Video Proof!)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 705
  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Nexus? Well, it does sound futurey and all, but it got BoomTown to wondering how Google’s geektastic engineers settled on the name for their not-so-secret new smartphone , which is called the Nexus One. The codename for the project was Passion and ...
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