September 2007

Let them eat fuel [Posted on September 27, 2007 - 5:05 PM]

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Technology for developing genetically improved food crops has had a rocky history, with consumers largely rejecting early success in so-called Frankenfoods, including strawberries, tomatoes and potatoes with greater yield potential... Continue Reading

Green investment bubble still inflating [Posted on September 27, 2007 - 11:00 AM]

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Global energy and clean technology venture investments topped $1 billion for the first time in the first half of 2007, goosed by some huge late-stage equity deals, but also supported... Continue Reading

Mashery takes second round [Posted on September 27, 2007 - 10:41 AM]

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One of Facebook Inc.'s shrewdest moves was its decision to open its application programming interface. By sharing some of its back-end code, the social networking company allowed software developers to... Continue Reading

Goldman Sachs meets Demand Media [Posted on September 25, 2007 - 9:23 PM]

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Reports that Demand Media has raised $100 million more are surprising. As I've previously written, I'm skeptical of the company's strategy of raising lots of capital, buying or creating web... Continue Reading

Changes ahead for Intel Capital WiMax JV [Posted on September 25, 2007 - 5:18 PM]

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A few months before Intel Capital unveiled its splashy, $600 million investment in Clearwire Corp., the venture arm of the world's biggest chipmaker made a similar, albeit much smaller,... Continue Reading

Fast Ethernet ready for its close-up [Posted on September 25, 2007 - 3:55 PM]

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The collapse of the telecommunications equipment boom in 2001 pretty much spelled the death for the specialized interconnectivity standard Infiniband as far as enterprise usage is concerned. Although Infiniband lingers... Continue Reading

When early-stage equity isn't VC [Posted on September 24, 2007 - 5:10 PM]

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A new $100 million third round for catalytic gasification technology developer GreatPoint Energy Inc. comes this week on the tail of last week's announcement from Amyris Biotechnologies Inc. that it... Continue Reading

Microsoft mulls investment in Facebook [Posted on September 24, 2007 - 5:00 PM]

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Some scoffed when Peter Thiel told us in July that investors in social networking site Facebook Inc. valued the company at between $7 billion and $10 billion. Now comes word... Continue Reading

Mimeo CEO: New round up by 'many multiples' [Posted on September 20, 2007 - 3:29 PM]

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The labor-intensive, inefficient, technology averse -- and frequently corrupt -- printing industry seemed a perfect fit for overthrow by well-funded Internet competitors, but when "dot-com" became a dirty word,... Continue Reading

Zillow clips hedges again [Posted on September 20, 2007 - 2:28 PM]

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Zillow.com, the real estate Web site that has attracted a massive audience of home price voyeurs, has also attracted a solid following among hedge funds, most recently landing Legg... Continue Reading

TechCrunch40: Porn 2.0 [Posted on September 19, 2007 - 3:40 PM]

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It's no secret that a lot of the earliest content on the Web was pornography, although Internet portals like Yahoo! Inc. preferred not to break out revenues in a way that would... Continue Reading

Fenwick & West: Up rounds rise in 2nd quarter [Posted on September 19, 2007 - 11:55 AM]

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Fenwick & West LLP's venture capital group found some interesting trends in valuation in the second quarter, reporting that up rounds outnumbered discounts 81% to 11%, with only 8% pricing... Continue Reading

Intel's Vietnam ventures [Posted on September 18, 2007 - 10:52 AM]

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Intel Capital's $36 million investment last November with Texas Pacific Group in Vietnam's FPT Telecom remains the most prominent venture capital investment in Vietnam, but Vietnam Express News reports... Continue Reading

TechCrunch40: The new meaning of Web 2.0 [Posted on September 18, 2007 - 10:45 AM]

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A standing-room-only crowd of some of the most experienced venture capitalists discovered they still hadn't seen it all on Monday when South Korean startup MusicShake kicked off its presentation... Continue Reading

Viacom's top lawyer pleased with early results from YouTube lawsuit [Posted on September 17, 2007 - 8:06 PM]

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Michael Fricklas, Viacom's general counsel, talked today about his company's $1 billion lawsuit against Google's YouTube in a surprisingly candid manner. During a keynote interview with Tech Confidential Editor Alain... Continue Reading

Bronfman: "The rumors of the music industry's demise are greatly exaggerated" [Posted on September 17, 2007 - 7:53 PM]

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In a keynote address today at The Deal's Convergence conference at The Paley Center for Media in New York, Warner Music Group chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. presented an optimistic view... Continue Reading

Ross Levinsohn and Jon Miller talk about their new VC firm [Posted on September 12, 2007 - 9:59 PM]

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Former Fox Interactive Media honcho Ross Levinsohn and former AOL president Jon Miller were on stage together today at the Conversational Marketing Summit in San Francisco's Presidio dishing dirt... Continue Reading

$25 million richer, Veoh still believes in user generated content [Posted on September 12, 2007 - 7:45 PM]

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Having closed a $25 million Series C round of funding last month to syndicate professional content , online video company Veoh is not giving up on user generated content... Continue Reading

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