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China's freeware makers get $146M fund
News Three Chinese angel investor firms come together to contribute 1 billion RMB (US$146 million) toward entrepreneurial freeware makers in the country.
Tags: Funding, Entrepreneurship, Social Networking, Sina Corp., Qihoo 360, M&A, software, software company, Sequoia Capital, chairman
Fund will help alleged Swedish pirates hit by new law
News Pirate Bay spokesperson and Swedish politicians create fund to help alleged pirates fight accusations after the passage of new antipiracy law.
Tags: Piracy, Funding, Law, Audio Book, Fund, Piracy, Backup, IP, Integrity Association, Internet Service
Microsoft files for debt offering
News The big question is what Microsoft, already flush with cash, might do with the money.
Tags: Funding, Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, Debt, software company, working capital, business software company, business software, SEC, merger
Web-based Lookout protects mobile devices, data
News Lookout offers data security, backup, and management over the Web and a way to locate and protect missing or stolen devices.
Tags: Mobile, Funding, Smart phones, Lookout Software, Malware, Security, Backup, Device, Twitter Inc., CEO
UK budget: US$1.1B cash injection for tech
News Digital technologies will share a US$1.1 billion fund to stimulate growth in the United Kingdom's "industries of the future".
Tags: Funding, Green IT, Pound, Investment, Telecommunications, Training, Manufacturing, Broadband, chancellor, financial
Singapore's MDA rapped over conflict of interest
News Country's government agency chided by Auditor-General for allowing conflict of interest in its availing of funds to interactive digital media startups.
Tags: Funding, Audits, Digital media, TV, Singapore, Digital media, payment, Microsoft Office, audit, revenue
M'sia wins votes for green IT incentives
News Industry players welcome US$443 million fund in 2010 budget to drive green IT, but opposition party unimpressed with government's initiatives to boost broadband.
Tags: Local Government, Taxes, Business broadband, Personal broadband, Funding, Business, Small And Medium Enterprise, Green IT, Information And Communication Technology, Broadband
Bill Gates investing in green tech fund
News Microsoft's chairman is getting "exposure" to clean energy technology startups through the US$1 billion Khosla Fund.
Tags: Green IT, Bill Gates, nuclear power plant, Khosla, Energy, climate change, Microsoft Corp., Green IT, Environment, CTO
StopBadware goes nonprofit with funding
News Four-year-old antimalware effort leaves Harvard's Berkman Center to become standalone nonprofit with funding from Google, PayPal and Mozilla.
Tags: Security Management, Security applications/tools, PayPal, Malware, Center for Democracy & Technology, Ari Schwartz, Google Inc., StopBadware, Mozilla Corp., Esther Dyson
US govt commits US$1.2B to energy R&D
News U.S. President Barack Obama cheers on green-tech businesses, announcing a big increase in energy-related research and a 10-year business tax credit for R&D spending.
Tags: Green IT, Funding, Government, Clean Technology, Research And Development Investment Tax Credit, clean-tech industry, tax credit, job, researcher, Holland
Funding boost for Malaysia's mobile developers
News Country's mobile app makers can receive funds and related support from new initiative between two government agencies and Nokia.
Tags: Applications and tools, Symbian, Training, Asia-Pacific, Developer, digital content, Kuala Lumpur, collaboration, Symbian, Lee Min Keong
Calix raises US$100M in funding
News Founder and CEO Carl Russo sold his last company to Cisco for US$7 billion during the boom. Can he come up with another hit?
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Broadband, Latin America, networking equipment company, network, broadband service, acquisition, broadband network
Contrarian Google launches investment fund
News Google's new investment arm will focus on start-ups working on the Internet, biotech, green tech, software, and health care.
Tags: Venture capital, Investment, Google Inc., IPO, National Venture Capital Association, venture-capital company, Silicon Valley company, Silicon Valley, Wall Street Journal, Web Site
EU plans more funding for tech research
News The European Commission calls for a large increase in tech R&D funding over the next decade, and has reiterated its call for a single European patent system.
Tags: R&D, European Union, Information And Communication Technology, Europe, economic performance, intellectual-property strategy, intellectual property, member state, strategy, commission
Microsoft controlling Australian govt 2.0 funds
News Government 2.0 Taskforce has released a draft contract for fund recipients, which revealed that any funding agreements will be between successful bidders and Microsoft, not the Commonwealth.
Tags: Web 2.0, Government, Training, Microsoft Corp., partnership, Taskforce, Microsoft Australia, intellectual property, Web 2.0, blog
