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Investments rise for fabless chip firms
News Venture investments went up 23 percent sequentially in the first quarter, marking the first time the sector has seen back-to-back growth since 2000.
AltaVista primes new search engine
News AltaVista is preparing to launch a new "high-end" search engine amid its push to become a leading portal destination, according to people familiar with the plans.
Start-up pushes trading services for other sites
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IT venture investing posts worst Q4 in a decade
News IT venture investments in the fourth quarter fell a staggering 40 percent to US$2.2 billion over year-ago figures, marking the worst showing in a decade, says survey.
Tags: Venture capital, Investments, Venture Investment, Sequoia Capital, PowerPoint Presentation, information service, Microsoft PowerPoint, information technology company, News.com, network
Macromedia gets $44 million infusion
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3 VCs join S'pore's US$1B fund
News One Taiwanese and two US venture capital firms have signed up to join Singapore's US$1 billion Technopreneurship Investment Fund.
Podcast start-up scores US$8.85 million in funding
News Kleiner Perkins, others back PodShow, a podcasting company co-founded by former MTV video jockey Adam Curry.
Tags: MP3 players, Music, Funding
Jive Software takes in US$15M to run with Web 2.0 collaboration
News Jive Software--boosted by a venture capital injection--is set to take on Microsoft's SharePoint with Clearspace, its Web collaboration product.
Tags: Groupware, work flow software
eToys files for Chapter 11
News Troubled Internet toy site eToys filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware on Wednesday and is expected to close its Web site by Thursday.
eToys says it has enough money for 2000
News eToys won't need to raise more money this year because it has more than US$200 million in cash, enough for the rest of 2000, founder and chief executive Toby Lenk said.
AltaVista aims to lure eyes from Google
News AltaVista yesterday unveiled Raging Search, a new search engine through which the portal will attempt to lure "high-end" Net veterans to its service.
Online training firm nets $40 million
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Some telecom start-ups back in the money
News The funding climate for tech start-ups may have soured over the past few months, but several deals announced Monday indicate times are sweeter for some communications companies.
Novell's Schmidt joins Google at critical time
News Novell's outgoing chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said Monday that he has invested an undisclosed sum in Web search engine Google and signed up for a part-time gig as chairman of the up-and-coming company.
Harry Potter publisher tops eToys bids
News Children's book publisher and distributor Scholastic is the highest bidder for the inventory of failed Internet retailer eToys, placing an offer for about US$8 million as part of the auction process in the toy site's bankruptcy proceedings.
