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• Adconian Media Group buys Joost assets, ending a long saga

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Content network firm Adconian Media Group said today that it has acquired the assets of Joost, the online video service founded by Skype founders and the subject of a lawsuit drama this fall.The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company was founded by Skype and Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. ...
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• Adconian Media Group buys Joost assets

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Content network firm Adconian Media Group said today that it has acquired the assets of Joost, the online video service founded by Skype founders and the subject of a lawsuit drama this fall.The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company was founded by Skype and Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. ...
  21 hours ago

• Painting, tiling, packing, moving, baking, and blogging

  
  Sowers4Pastors — Authority: 104
  Heres what weve been up to: Packing - about a quarter of our household stuff is packed up (Im not including large items of furniture as part of the "stuff"), and most of those boxes have been moved out to our new abode. The new abode is not yet ready to receive everything (or everyone), so family members have been ...
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• Milo.com gets big-name investors to help you find local deals

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 792
  A company called Milo.com wants to stand out from the hordes of e-commerce sites out there by providing users with information about what’s on the shelves of local stores, and investors just backed that mission with a $4 million first round. That’s a respectably-sized round, but more impressive than the amount ...
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• Abraaj Capital Acquires Riyada Ventures To Lead New SME Push

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 169
  Abraaj Capital, the Dubai-based private equity firm has announced that it has signed a deal to fully acquire Riyada Ventures, the venture capital firm based in Jordan.The acquisition is at the core of Read More......( read more )
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• Abraaj Capital Acquires Riyada Ventures To Lead New SME Push

  
  StartUpArabia — Authority: 116
  Abraaj Capital , the Dubai-based private equity firm has announced that it has signed a deal to fully acquire Riyada Ventures , the venture capital firm based in Jordan. The acquisition is at the core of a new push by Abraaj into the small and medium enterprise (SME) space, which is aimed at stimulating and ...
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• BookRenter.com Raises $6 Million From Storm and Adams

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 489
  Chegg isn’t the only online textbook rental company that raised funding this week . BookRenter.com announced that they have raised $6 million in funding as part of the company’s first round. Investors included Storm Ventures and Adams Capital Management. BookRenter’s growth was “300 percent ...
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• Millennial Media Raises $16M in Growth Equity Financing to Extend Its Leadership Position in Mobile Advertising

  
  Ad Operations Online — Authority: 508
  The Mobile Media Leader Reaches 79% of US Mobile Internet AudienceBALTIMORE – Millennial Media announced the company has closed on a $16M Series C round of growth funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, and Charles River Ventures ...
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• Plato’s Forms raises $545K to correct bad journalism

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 792
  Plato’s Forms , a San Francisco startup that describes itself as “a professional messaging platform focused on the problem of the rapid proliferation of misinformation in media,” just announced raising a $545,000 seed round. The company was founded by Darryl Siry, senior vice president of marketing and sales at ...
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• BookRenter raises $6M to challenge Chegg in textbook rentals

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• BookRenter raises $6M to challenge Chegg in textbook rentals

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Textbook rental site Chegg.com may be raising tremendous amounts of funding, but competitor BookRenter isn’t sitting still — it just announced a $6 million first round.That number is dwarfed by the $84.2 million Chegg has raised (not counting debt), but BookRenter chief executive Mehdi Maghsoodnia says his ...
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• BookRenter raises $6M to challenge Chegg in textbook rentals

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 792
  Textbook rental site Chegg.com may be raising tremendous amounts of funding , but competitor BookRenter isn’t sitting still — it just announced a $6 million first round. That number is dwarfed by the $84.2 million Chegg has raised (not counting debt), but BookRenter chief executive Mehdi Maghsoodnia says his ...
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• FlightCaster Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• Pace University Announces Entrepreneurial Finalists in New Business and Social Venture Categories for Sixth Annual Pitch Contest

  
  Social ROI: A Social Entrepreneurship Blog — Authority: 107
  Presented by: Entrepreneurship@Lubin in association with: The Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship Keynote Speaker Professor Iqbal Quadir, Founder of GrameenPhone and Director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT Sponsored by: RSVP for the Cheering ...
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• Need Customers? Borrow Some!

  
  Cathy Stucker — Authority: 110
  One of the questions I get a lot goes something like this, “How do I get customers for my business? I don’t have an email list, a popular web site or any other way to reach an audience. How can I start making money without those things?” Here’s how… First of all, start working on your visibility ...
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• Ingenico Invests in Roam Data

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 704
  IT , VC , deals Wade Roush wrote: Boston-based Roam Data, which makes software that allows merchants to process payments via cell phones, said last week that it has raised $6.5 million in new funding. Ingenico Ventures—a unit of payment solutions provider Ingenico SAS—and George Wallner, founder and ...
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• Chegg Raises $112 Million In Funding, Debt Facility, and Credit Facility

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 489
  Chegg is the biggest online textbook rental company and they are aggressively funding themselves in order to expand their business. The company raised $57 million in Series D equity funding led by Insight Venture Partners. Insight Venture Partners also provided Chegg with $25 million in credit facility. Before ...
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• Social-Media Service ‘Foursquare’ Expected to Break Out in 2010

  
  Hiring the Internet — Authority: 107
  According to Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO of tech blog “Mashable” and a frequent contributor to CNN.com, Foursquare – an up-and-coming social-media service – is poised to make its grand debut next year. Whereas Twitter dominated the tech headlines in 2009 – a rise to prominence that we’ve document ...
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• My Facebook App + Your Promotion

  
  Black Hat Forum — Authority: 549
  Looking for a JV I have a Facebook application that is pretty unique and has the potential of getting very viral especially with the holiday season in full swing. I need someone that has the Facebook promotion experience and resources in place to promote this on a large scale. Profit will be split accordingly. PM ...
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• Autoblogging JV Investors Needed Urgently

  
  Black Hat Forum — Authority: 549
  Hello, All might you know that I provide autoblogs services in bhw - Iam looking for an Investor or some investors who can Invest the money - The money to invest is around - 15kusd. Where its going to applied - sorry wont expose in public. But what am offering is double money back in 2 months - after 1 month - full ...
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