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Micro-blogging sensation Twitter plans to begin dabbling this year with ways to pump cash

Twitter to try money-making methods

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created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Micro-blogging sensation Twitter plans to begin dabbling this year with ways to pump cash from the fast-growing free service.





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Entrepreneurs face venture capital funding drought

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The number of US venture capital firms that raised new investment money sank to a 15-year low in the last fiscal quarter as a drought of funding threatened innovation around the world.


Greylock Partners said Monday it has 575 million dollars in a new fund to back promising technology startups

575-million-dollar fund targets technology startups

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Greylock Partners said Monday it has 575 million dollars in a new fund to back promising technology startups.


Green firms rewarded by financial markets

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created May 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

When a company improves its environmental performance, it is common to think that the accompanying economic improvements are based on the company's more efficient use of resources. However,


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Google launches venture capital fund (Update)

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created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google is searching for good ideas.


Firms with high analyst coverage engage in excessive external financing and capital spending

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created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study in the journal Financial Management explored whether abnormal analyst coverage influences the extent to which companies raise funds from external sources (e.g., issue bonds or sell stock) and the amount of new ...


VC investments plunge 51 pct to $3.7 billion in 2Q

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created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Venture capitalists cut their U.S. investments in half during the spring, the second-consecutive quarter to mark a more than 50 percent decline, leaving the money flowing to startups at the slowest trickle in 12 ...


Venture capitalist and founder of Khosla Ventures Vinod Khosla

Khosla Ventures raises 1 bln dlrs for green tech

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Two new US venture capital funds have raised more that one billion dollars to help propel a green technology revolution, the company founded by influential investor Vinod Khosla said.


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Twitter to raise $100 mln in new funding: WSJ

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created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Twitter is close to raising up to 100 million dollars in new funding in a deal which values the hot micro-blogging service at one billion dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.


It was unclear if Facebook had responded to or decided to accept the offer from Digital Sky Technologies

Russian firm offers to invest in Facebook: report

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created May 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Russian Internet-investment group has offered to invest 200 million dollars in Facebook Inc., The Wall Street Journal reported.


NASA enters venture capital partnership

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created Sep 20, 2006 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (25) | comments 0

NASA says it has joined with Red Planet Capital Inc. of San Mateo, Calif., to gain access to new and innovative scientific technologies.



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