Top 12 Venture Deals of The Week
Atari has sold off Cryptic Studios, the maker of online games such as Star Trek Online, to China’s Perfect World. Perfect World is paying 35 million euros, or $49.8 million…
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Founder Spotlight: Eileen Gittins-Founder, President & CEO At Blurb
Eileen Gittins is the founder and CEO of Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, market and sell professional-quality books. # Eileen Gittins went…
Microsoft Is Close To A Deal To Buy Skype For $7 Billion
Microsoft Corp. is close to a deal to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies SA for between $7 billion and $8 billion. According to the WSJ report, the final price…
Zipcar Launches Public Beta Of Its Android App
Zipcar, Inc. , a popular car sharing network, today announced the launch of its highly anticipated Android™ mobile application as a public beta test. The public beta launch enables thousands…
Startup Founder Lessons: Scott Dunlap On Raising Series A Mistakes
Scott Dunlap is an Entrepreneur, currently obsessing on next gen location-based mobile apps. Early exec at E.piphany (9th highest IPO in 1999), Loudcloud/Opsware (IPO 2001, sold to HP in 2007),…
Groupon Generated $760M In Revenues In 2010, Up From $33M In 2009
Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that is localized to major geographic markets worldwide. The service was Launched in November 2008. The daily deals website saw its revenue surge to $760…
Boingo To Extend Unlimited Wi-Fi Across Europe, The Middle East And Africa
Wi-Fi hotspot network operator Boingo is aiming to extend its Wi-Fi hotspots throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa with its new Boingo Europe Plus plan that offers access to…
HumanIPO Wants To Help You Jump-Start Your New Company
HumanIPO is built on the thesis that successful companies will emerge through collaboration between networks of free agents. Entrepreneurs can use HumanIPO to build a business by sharing their ideas…
Google And Yahoo To Take On Groupon With New Deal Sites
Google Inc., after failing to acquire daily-deals website Groupon Inc., said it is preparing to test a competing service (Google offers) that offers deals to local businesses such as restaurants.…
Groupon Launches in Abilene, Texas
Groupon, a shopping website that offers a daily deal on the best local goods, services and cultural events in more than 500 markets around the world, launched in Abilene on…
Dundee: New Venture Capital Opens With $2M Fund
On November 10th 2010, Dundee Venture Capital officially announced its founding in Omaha with the launch of its website, dundeeventurecapital.com. Dundee Venture Capital was officially founded last month by Mark…