http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital The latest news brought to you by MySpace! Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:25:47 GMT http://newscdn.myspace.com/web.2.24/content/springwidget/venturecapital.xml http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19054441 Webaroo Technology has confirmed a $10 million round of funding for their product SMSGupShup, an SMS-based community site in India. SMSGupShup is a community site that enables users to join groups according to their interests and receive updates through their TechCrunch Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:30:17 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19054441 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19051282 My guide, Susan Wojicki, was particularly proud when we stopped in front of the child care facility and talked about how Google had a low-cost facility for parents. And Wojicki (pronounced Wo-jis-key), who is the sister-in-law of Google co-founder Sergey VentureBeat Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:58:21 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19051282 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19046305 Certainly there are some notable successes with browser extensions: - StumbleUpon - one of the most popular Firefox extensions was sold to eBay last year for a price in the neighborhood of $50mm - Clipmarks - another popular Firefox extension was sold to A VC Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:08:52 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19046305 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19052123 Holiday weekends, especially the ones that bracket the summer months, tend to be stress tests for the tech media. With the proliferation of smart phones, social media aggregators, and of course the Twitter clonestakes, it’s now trivial to get a snapshot of what is going on throughout the TechCrunch Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:51:56 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19052123 http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/morgan-stanleys-rescue-efforts/ The new Bell Canada deal agreement, which keeps alive the largest private equity deal in history, owes its origins to several parties, principally to Providence Equity Partners‘ Jonathan Nelson and Citigroup’s Chad Leat. In May, Morgan Stanley was Deal Book Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:02:35 GMT http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/morgan-stanleys-rescue-efforts/ http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19039836 With that in mind, Found|READ asked a panel of conference participants to share their thoughts via email on some of the more compelling business opportunities for startups in the cloud computing space. Considering the changing landscape for computing GigaOm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:00:07 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19039836 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19037273 Now that the dust has settled from last week’s Twitter rollback of the reply feature , I’ve been thinking about how Twitter and other services with passionate users incorporate user-generated usages like replies into their core platforms—and when it's healthy O'Reilly Radar Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:20:45 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19037273 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19035461 — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, Venture Chronicles Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:27:49 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19035461 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19024353 I'm knee deep in reading The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company, listening to Pink Floyd, and enjoying a perfect Homer, Alaska evening with Amy. I was an undergraduate at MIT during the Lucasfilm days of what became Pixar and vaguely remember early Media Lab / Project Athena animation stuff and Feld Thoughts Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:24:20 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19024353 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19033669 People seem to be in a historical frame of market mind this weekend, so here is a chart of Dow Jones index returns by U.S. As an aside, while President Bush is currently running neck-and-neck with Jimmy Carter for the third-worst presidential market returns Paul Kedrosky Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:13:22 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19033669 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19047998 Dave Winer has launched a new tech news site It is called Tech Newsjunk Its like techmeme but exclusively focused on products I like this idea a lot. I wrote recently that I wanted new places to go for inspiration This is a step in the right direction http://tech.newsjunk.com/ Go check it out A VC Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:21:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19047998 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19049652 I remember people talking about the pros and cons of various enterprise voicemail systems - which had the best forwarding and group messaging, which allowed for archiving, and how many messages could be stored and for how long. But now an increasing number of people are just plain avoiding TechCrunch Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:00:34 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19049652 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19014487 Facebook and erstwhile rival social network ConnectU reached a settlement last month, after a lengthy court battle. Indeed, based on a formal valuation resolution approved by Facebook’s Board of Directors but concealed from ConnectU, the stock portion of the VentureBeat Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:05:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19014487 http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/a-tally-of-the-buyout-booms-survivors-and-casualties/ Bell Canada, its private equity buyers and their banks managed to achieve a compromise to their impasse over the deal’s lending commitments with a rather elegant solution that roughly maintains the original purchase price of $42.75 a share. Big banks Deal Book Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:22:21 GMT http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/a-tally-of-the-buyout-booms-survivors-and-casualties/ http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19024842 AT&T, long before it merged with SBC had made a half-hearted attempt at getting into consumer VoIP by selling a service called, CallVantage. Today, there is word that AT&T has stopped pushing the service through its affiliate channels - a sure sign that the company is backing away even further and GigaOm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:13:39 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19024842 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19047465 Yahoo Shortcuts automatically finds and underlines interesting items in articles and provides additional information via a pop up window (Yahoo Shortcuts also refers to shortcuts in Yahoo Search for common things like travel search). One blogger is pointing TechCrunch Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:51:06 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19047465 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19012740 The comments kept rolling in, mostly noting the irony that Facebook would be telling anyone to open up its data when most feel the data inside Facebook is anything but open. It’s pretty clear that Google feels its Open Social platform is much more open VentureBeat Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:46:45 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19012740 http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/bce-reaches-new-buyout-agreement/ BCE, parent of Bell Canada, announced it has renegotiated its deal to sell itself to a consortium of investors for about $50 billion, marking the end of months-long saga over the fate of the largest buyout in history. The new deal still calls for the buyers Deal Book Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:17:15 GMT http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/bce-reaches-new-buyout-agreement/ http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19034086 The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter’s all-too-regular downtime. Identi.ca’s answer to Twitter’s scaling issues is by open-sourcing its code and TechCrunch Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:57:51 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19034086 http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19012466 Google has released a Google Talk client for the iPhone that allows instant messaging as long as the application is open. I’d like to think of this as a nifty way around rising texting costs, but that’s unlikely, given how much time my phone spends in my pocket. If this type of mobile app takes GigaOm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:48:41 GMT http://news.myspace.com/business/venturecapital/item/19012466