Roundup: Intel launching six-core chip, Miasole raising big round, the making of Google’s Chrome and more

Venture Beat — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:34:29 -0700

Here’s the latest action:

Intel to launch six-core microprocessor – A chip code-named Dunnington is expected to debut on Sept. 15. Intel will put six cores, or computing brains, on a single chip. But this is really no big deal. I’ve got a 666-core chip of my own in the works. I used a cookie-cutter to make it.

Linkedin gets linked to CNBC – The popular business social network will integrate its community and networking functionality into CNBC.com. Linkedin has more than 27 million members now.

Security deal has investors under water – Secure Computing is buying Securify for $15 million plus an earn-out of $5 million — far less than the investment into the company.

Michael Cerda joins Venrock — Cerda, founder of Internet telephone company Jangl, who joined competitor Jajah briefly after Jangl was wound down earlier this year (and its assets sold to Live Universe) has already moved on, and has joined Silicon Valley venture capital firm Venrock as an Entrepreneur in Residence. He’ll focus on digital media, specifically “multi-modal marketplaces, platforms and services.” By multi-modal, he refers to services “that aren’t just web or just phone or just video or just TV…but services that have on-ramps in some or all of those modes.”

Liberty Media to make public its DirecTV stake – The cable company plans to spin off its 50-percent stake in DirecTV into a new public company dubbed Liberty Entertainment Group.

Another Siemens snafu – Siemens has been accused of posting its rival’s secrets. French software maker Dassault Systemes says a confidential trove of its customer data was found on Siemens’ intranet.

hi5 launches 0.8 version of open social – The social network announced that it has launched a version of the OpenSocial 0.8 standard which gives developers the ability to build applications in languages other than English.

Seven funds known to have invested in Miasole’s latest round — Miasole, one of the biggest thin-film solar startups, has been raising a $200 million round. So far, the company has obtained commitments from seven funds.

The full story of how Google Chrome came to be — Niall Kennedy has the scoop on something that has generated reams of blogger text in very short life. This story alone could double the number of words written about Chrome to date.

Get ready to chuck your Blu-ray disks in five years — Samsung exec says that Blu-ray has five years left to get the video disc market before something else takes over.

Microsoft’s answer to Google Docs — Redmond is reportedly going to blast back at Google’s cloud-based applications suite by the end of the year.

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