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[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 2:33 PM]
Union Square Ventures revealed its investment in social event organizing site operator Meetup Inc. through a pair of blog posts from partners Brad Burnham and Fred Wilson. The firm invested...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 12:53 PM]
Zynga Game Network, which brings gamers together via social networks and offers them several popular titles, has raised $29 million and added Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a new investor....  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 12:41 PM]
While digital music subscription services such as RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody [RNWK] and Napster Inc. [NAPS] have augmented their services with DRM-free download stores in recent weeks, U.K.-based British Sky Broadcasting...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 12:14 PM]
Cisco Systems Inc. [CSCO] unveiled a $120 million deal Wednesday for Pure Networks Inc. to add the venture-backed target's home networking software to its Linksys business.The deal amounts to a...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 11:03 AM]
It's funny how when you set the bar so low, there's nowhere else to go but up. Shares of Yahoo! Inc. [YHOO] were up 4% in early trading on Wednesday...  Continue Reading.

[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 10:51 AM]
A decision by Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps' on Tuesday to oppose the $13 billion hookup of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. [XMSR] and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. has regulatory...  Continue Reading.
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From The Network
China's VC industry raises more than US$3B in Q2: With the Olympics coming up, we believe there will be a lot of coverage of the Chinese startup economy as there are so many good stories to tell. Zero2IPO Research Center tracked 29 domestic and foreign VC firms which established.... [alarm:clock]

[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 12:55 AM]
"The word transition is so loaded that I hate to use it. But it is what it is," blogs Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson in his post about the...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 22, 2008 - 6:42 PM]
Carl Icahn showed his cuddly side in a blog post today discussing Yahoo! Inc.'s [YHOO] move on Monday to appoint him to the company's board. He claims to be "very...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 22, 2008 - 5:41 PM]
Yahoo! Inc. [YHOO] goosed expectations it was seriously considering sale of its Asian assets in this statement and this one. But during Tuesday's conference call to discuss its second quarter earnings, the...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 22, 2008 - 5:24 PM]
Guardian Media Group's recent acquisition of paidContent.org parent ContentNext Media Inc. for a reported $30 million has many in the blogosphere debating the medium's future as old and new media begin to meet in...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 22, 2008 - 4:23 PM]
Yahoo! Inc. [YHOO] just reported second quarter earnings, and as we anticipated, the numbers came in below expectations. Chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen (pictured) did, however, tell Reuters the company would leave its...  Continue Reading.
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Episode 11, Behind the Money: Rob Kalin, Etsy Inc.

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Rob Kalin stepped aside as CEO of Etsy Inc. on Tuesday. We first met him last November, when he shared the story of his online crafts marketplace.
 



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