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[Posted on July 24, 2008 - 11:20 AM]
Shares of EMC Corp. [EMC] were trading modestly higher on Thursday after after the company reported seemingly strong second-quarter earnings. The storage technology company's profit climbed 13% over the year-ago...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 9:22 PM]
Reports from the U.K. indicate that six British ISPs have agreed to develop legal online music services in cooperation with a plan developed by the British government, beginning by mailing...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 5:51 PM]
Yahoo! Inc. [YHOO] should have a relatively non-acrimonious shareholder meeting Aug. 1 after settling its proxy fight with activist investor Carl Icahn earlier this week. But that doesn't mean the company is...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 5:30 PM]
We've got a relatively complete list of the advisers on Brocade Communications Systems Inc.'s [BRCD] $3 billion agreement to buy Foundry Networks Inc.[FDRY], announced Monday. On the Brocade side, Bank of...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 5:20 PM]
Sramana Mitra pulls no punches when assessing where to place the blame for Yahoo! Inc.'s [YHOO] woes. "I don't think anything is going to change from a business point of...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 5:12 PM]
"We're using the round of funding to ramp up the technology to give people better tools for self-organizing groups," says Meetup Inc. CEO Scott Heiferman about the backing the six-year-old New...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on July 23, 2008 - 3:48 PM]
ActaCell, a startup tackling the tough problem of making electric car batteries both safe and affordable, has raised $5.8 million in Series A financing. The round was led by DJF Mercury...  Continue Reading.
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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.

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