News: Business & Finance

• Salesforce.com announces Chatter, another social network for companies
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 18 2009

  Salesforce.com announced today that it’s going to join the hordes of companies offering a social networking service for your business. With a new product called Salesforce Chatter, companies ...

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• As Midas List dies, AlwaysOn offers a new selection of top VCs
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 18 2009

  Folks wanting to identify the top venture capitalists will have to look at a new source from now on. Forbes’ annual Midas List, in which the magazine ranked the VCs who saw the best returns in ...

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• CEO: Data warehousing vendor Dataupia will live on
  Chris Kanaracus
  Nov 18 2009

  It has been a tough year for Dataupia, but the data-warehousing appliance startup is alive and well following reports of major layoffs and a potential asset sale, according to founder Foster ...

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• Placecast lands $5M more for location-triggered mobile advertisements
  Cody Barbierri
  Nov 18 2009

  San Francisco’s 1020 Placecast, a company working on new mobile advertising technology, said today it raised $5 million in more funding to continue developing its opt-in location-triggered ad ...

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• Convey and its VC backers bet on hybrid servers
  Patrick Thibodeau
  Nov 18 2009

  PORTLAND, Ore. - High tech startup companies today are most likely to be software application vendors or social networking sites. One wouldn't expect a new hardware vendor to attract significant ...

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• EU Ombudsman faults EC's Intel antitrust ruling
  Paul Meller
  Nov 18 2009

  The European Ombudsman accused the European Commission on Thursday of "maladministration" during its antitrust investigation of Intel, which resulted in a hefty fine earlier this year, as well as an ...

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• Profitable Paltalk acquires Vumber for phone number privacy services
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 18 2009

  Paltalk, the profitable chat startup that bought back its own stock earlier this year, acquired Vumber to offer phone number privacy services today. They didn’t disclose the acquisition price ...

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• IBM moves closer to creating chips based on the brain
  Dean Takahashi
  Nov 18 2009

  IBM said today that it has made significant progress toward developing a computer that simulates and emulates the brain’s abilities to sense, perceive, interact, and recognize. The computer ...

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• Intel Capital invests $25 million in tech companies
  Sumner Lemon
  Nov 17 2009

  Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of the world's largest chip maker, Tuesday detailed seven new investments worth around US$25 million in total, in addition to an investment in U.S. WiMax ...

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• 5 O’Clock Roundup: Moving into a networked era, Tumblr envy, Open Web
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 17 2009

  Watch out Lexis-Nexis and WestLaw! Google’s coming: You can now read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts with Google Scholar. Expect an ...

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