Posts tagged Angel Investors
Content distribution startup 3crowd wants to shake up online video
Feb 5th
The un-profitability of video sites has become a cliche — high infrastructure costs and advertising challenges have combined in a way that even ostensible winners, like YouTube, can’t necessarily make the finances work (though Google keeps saying that YouTube will be profitable real soon). On the startup side, new video companies hoping to reach consumers [...]
How the EU lets startups slip through its fingers
Jan 6th
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(Editor’s note: Jon Bradford is CEO of The Difference Engine, a mentor-led acceleration program in the U.K. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
The closing â??Europe Gangâ? discussion at LeWeb 2009 last year focused on how Europe could attract more digital businesses back to the continent. I believe the folks in that seminar may have [...]
Google acquisitions may signal big push against Microsoft Office (via postie)
Dec 22nd
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I use Google Docs for almost all of my writing, and I’ll be the first to admit that it’s pretty bare-bones compared to Microsoft Office. But that may change next year.
For one thing, Google has been making a number of acquisitions that are clearly Docs-related. Over the weekend, TechCrunch reported that the search [...]
With Khosla’s backing, Lookout aims to beef up mobile security (via postie)
Dec 21st
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A new company called Lookout wants to take on the growing security threats around smartphones. To do that, it just raised $5.5 million in a first round from investors including Khosla Ventures.
San Francisco-based Lookout evolved from Flexilis, a security consulting startup, which in turn was founded by graduates of the University of Southern California. The [...]
Running a startup in London? Check out White Bear Yard
Dec 18th
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At the Le Web conference in Paris last week, there was a debate about whether a bright moment for tech startups in London had passed. The Bebo and Last.fm acquisitions happened almost two years ago, and several of the startups from the “Silicon Roundabout,” an area around Old Street in the East, have [...]
