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[Posted on January 6, 2009 - 4:20 PM]
Surround sound technology developer DTS Inc. [DTSI] has paid $7.5 million to acquire audio technology startup Neural Audio Corp.The price tag could double if Neural Audio hits certain performance milestones...  Continue Reading.


[Posted on January 6, 2009 - 1:18 PM]
Former eBay Inc. CEO Meg Whitman began the new year a free agent, having stepped down from the boards of Procter & Gamble Co., DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. and eBay,...  Continue Reading.


[Posted on January 6, 2009 - 12:34 PM]
RipCode Inc., which develops technology that helps transmit Internet video, has raised $12.5 million in a funding led by Granite Ventures.Also investing in the round were previous backers Hunt Ventures,...  Continue Reading.


[Posted on January 5, 2009 - 5:11 PM]
"We're looking certainly at financial rewards, but we believe very strongly that there are other rewards that come in investing, and those come in terms of progress made for people...  Continue Reading.


[Posted on January 5, 2009 - 1:47 PM]
Benchmark Capital and a handful of other venture capital firms enjoyed a rare exit Monday with CA Inc.'s [CA] announcement that it would acquire Orchestria Inc., a startup that provides...  Continue Reading.


[Posted on January 5, 2009 - 10:36 AM]
The National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters rang in the new year Monday with a final tally of 2008 venture-backed exits, and, as one would expect, the numbers were...  Continue Reading.


From The Network
Technology predictions for 2009: Last year, when I wrote this same post for 2008, it was much easier to make predictions because everything was on the up and up, people took more chances.  We no longer have that environment.  When people are in survival.... [From Istanbul To Sand Hill Road]

[Posted on December 30, 2008 - 3:43 PM]
RRE Ventures LLC has raised more than $1 billion, invested in 115 companies and had 30 positive exits over the past 14 years. Yet you may not have heard of the...  Continue Reading.


[Posted on December 30, 2008 - 2:27 PM]
Low burn rates may make tech startups less vulnerable to today's economic downturn than they were to the last one. Internet companies cost less than one-tenth to operate than they did a decade ago, pointed...  Continue Reading.


[Posted on December 30, 2008 - 2:05 PM]
"I try to scare people," Mahalo.com Inc. founder Jason Calacanis told The Deal back in March, when he described his controversial hiring and firing practices in our three-part video interview.And that was...  Continue Reading.


[Posted on December 30, 2008 - 11:14 AM]
"We may not invest in a hot social media deal that has no revenue model or path to profitability," says David Hirsch, a former sales executive at Google Inc....  Continue Reading.


[Posted on December 23, 2008 - 10:32 AM]
Apparently, even Google is feeling the pain of the Great Recession and the pain is trickling down to their employees this holiday season. According to Gawker, the handsome cash bonuses...  Continue Reading.


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