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• Indiana’s incentives pay off, land Th!nk EV plant

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 160
  After baiting its hook with a $3 million tax incentives package, Elkahart, Ind. has finally reeled in Th!nk North America’s new electric vehicle manufacturing plant, a facility that represents $43.5 million in local investment and as many as 400 jobs by 2013.This just goes to show how much states and municipalities ...
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• Asia Gains a Tech Edge by Backing Start-Ups

  
  DealBook — Authority: 754
  The investment arms of large Taiwanese and Chinese manufacturers have created an investment network in Silicon Valley that pumps money into a variety of chip, software and services companies, and some have proven more willing than entrenched U.S. venture capitalists to back risky endeavors.
  2 hours ago

• Asia Gains a Tech Edge by Backing Start-Ups

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Companies that once built devices to Silicon Valley’s specifications are now investing in start-ups so they can compete with their former customers.
  6 hours ago

• GaiKai Gets $5M In Funding

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 145
  Aliso Viejo-based Gaikai , a startup developing technology to play computer games online in a web browser, has raised $5.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. Source of the new funding was announced, however, the firm now lists Mitch Lasky, former founder of JAMDAT, and now a ...
  12 hours ago

• DataSphere Raises $10.8M to Help Media Companies Manage Hyperlocal Websites (and Make Money)

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 647
  deals , Internet , VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: Bellevue, WA-based DataSphere, an Internet software and advertising sales company, has raised $10.8 million in equity and options, according to a filing with the SEC. The investors in the round were not disclosed, but the company is backed by the venture ...
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• Nordic Windpower is ready for DOE loan with $38M raise

  
  Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news — Authority: 490
  Khosla Ventures leads round expected to help the California-based wind turbine maker double its headcount in 2010 and expand in North America.
  12 hours ago

• The Echo Nest, Developer of “Music Brain,” Taps VCs for $1.3M

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 774
  UPDATED: The Echo Nest, a Somerville, Mass.-based music recommendation engine creator, has raised $1.3 million in a new round of funding from venture investors. The startup, which has announced partnerships with the Spotify and MOG music services, had previously raised an undisclosed amount of money from ...
  13 hours ago

• What’s First Round Capital Looking For In Their Investments?

  
  CenterNetworks — Authority: 511
  Last year we covered the announcement that early-stage venture capital first First Round Capital (FRC) would be opening an office in NYC. We also covered the Entrepreneurs Roundtable when FRC partner Howard Morgan discussed the overall early-stage capital market. Today the partners from FRC took a tour of the ...
  14 hours ago

• Android or iPhone? Wrong Question

  
  abovethecrowd.com — Authority: 92
  In a recent New York Times article, Kathryn Huberty, a Morgan Stanley analyst was quoted suggesting that Apple’s iPhone is the key catalyst for an important new technology trend. “Applications make the smartphone trend a revolutionary trend – one we haven’t seen in consumer technology for many years.” This ...
  14 hours ago

• Bessemer Venture Partners searching for space in Cambridge

  
  Innovation Economy — Authority: 550
  Continuing my in-depth reporting on VC real estate decisions... Partner Chris Gabrieli tells me that Bessemer Venture Partners , now based in Wellesley Hills, is looking for space in Cambridge -- ideally in Kendall Square. Bessemers lease is up in June; it has been located in an old house in Wellesley Hills ...
  15 hours ago

• Stephen Wolfram Talks Bing Partnership, Software Strategy, and the Future of Knowledge Computing

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 647
  Software , Internet , people Gregory T. Huang wrote: There is something oddly human about Stephen Wolfram using his iPhone to look up the mass of the “cascade hyperon,” a subatomic particle with who-knows-what properties. That’s what Wolfram, one of the world’s most distinguished experts in ...
  20 hours ago

• Solix shipping algae oil biofuel from demo plant

  
  Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news — Authority: 490
  Winter slows algal yields, but Colorado startup continues to send fuel to potential partners from its six-month-old facility.
  20 hours ago

• Stock market for pirate industry thriving in Somalia

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Stock market for pirate industry thriving in Somalia In Somalia, where unstable government and Islamic resistance have propelled an escalating civil unrest, a robust "stock market" has emerged in the city of Haradheere, whereas investors in the seagoing pirate "industry" raise money and supplies for kidnappers in ...
  20 hours ago

• The Google Phone

  
  A VC — Authority: 673
  In mid December as holiday gifts and cards were arriving daily in our office, I received a gift from Google. It was a Nexus One. I have been using it since that day as my primary phone. In the box was a note from Google asking me to keep quiet about the phone until Jan 5th. Well today is Jan 5th and so I can tell you ...
  21 hours ago

• I.P.O. Market Remained Dreary in 2009

  
  Bits — Authority: 784
  As I wrote in a story in Monday’s paper, venture capitalists are beginning to see signs of life in Silicon Valley. Still, a look at the acquisitions and public offerings of venture-backed companies in 2009 demonstrates that the industry has not yet turned the corner. Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture ...
  21 hours ago

• I.P.O. Market Remained Dreary in 2009

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  The last two years have been the slowest for public offerings of venture-backed start-ups in 34 years.
  21 hours ago

• One on One: Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square

  
  DealBook — Authority: 754
  Bits sits down with Twitter chairman and co-founder Jack Dorsey to discuss the microblogger, the location-based service Foursquare and his latest venture Square, an on-the-go credit card payment platform.
  21 hours ago

• 7 Incubators Selected for Singapore NRF TIS Means More Money For Startups

  
  SGEntrepreneurs — Authority: 436
  Back in August 2009, the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore announced a call for incubators to apply for a new Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS). The scheme, with its 85-15 (gov-incubator) funding split and attractive buyout options, favours the incubator who has the resources to fullfill its criteria ...
  22 hours ago

• TV Venture Gives Skype a Boost

  
  DealBook — Authority: 754
  Panasonic and LG Electronics, two of the top television makers, are to announce Tuesday that they are integrating the free online calling service Skype into their Internet-connected high-definition televisions.
  22 hours ago

• Another VC things Id like to fund list

  
  This is going to be BIG. — Authority: 473
  I’ve been thinking a lot about areas I’m interested in from an investment standpoint—and there are a few problems I’m fascinated by, or ones I continuously go back to.  I’d love to see people working on these or talk to people with interesting ideas around them. 1) Social CRM/CMS/Plugging into my ...
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