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Microsoft announced yesterday the acquisition of Powerset, a natural language search engine. Techmeme has lots of stories about the acquisition. Today the stories are all a bout Microsoft/Yahoo potential deals . But lets take a step back and look at how...
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In my inbox today appeared SandHill' s newsletter with an interesting post by Jon B. Fisher, who recently sold his startup, Bharosa, to Oracle. Selling his startup to Oracle was his plan from Day One. He covers the considerations a startup entrepreneur...
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I recently found a neat blog on the technology acquisitions for 2007 . Steve Nielsen of Partner Up combed many sources to compile this comprehensive list, complete with blog, media and press coverage. Steve's Q1 2008 list is here. This list includes...
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Pageflakes, one of the companies I have had a chance to work with in the past year in the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program, last week finalized its acqusition by LiveUniverse (a private company headed up by Brad Greenspan of MySpace fame). The acquisition...
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It can be a challenge today to find a large enterprise that’s not tinkering with desktop virtualization in some way, shape or form. Marketers have been capitalizing on the virtualization hype to repackage what’s essentially an old technology as the latest...
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Despite energetic community efforts and the blooming of a thousand identity initiatives , the path to profits for online consumer identity services has proved remarkably elusive. Sxip Identity , one of the best-known identity startups and helmed by identerati...
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Many virtualization startups I’ve met with recently have expressed some degree of hesitation, even skepticism, about developing support for Hyper-V . I find this perplexing. First, VMware is likely to accelerate their annexation of adjacent markets currently...
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500+ Customers, Key Strategic Partnerships, Acquisition by HP Ready to consolidate and optimize your Microsoft Windows application infrastructure? And see your configuration and management time slashed by up to 75 percent and total cost of ownership lowered...
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One of the brightest entrepreneurs I know runs Dragonfly , a boutique consulting firm that specializes in risk management. He once recounted to me the story of one of his clients, a mid-sized engineering firm based in small country in Asia. This company...
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Late last year, I spoke with Andy Plesser , founder and CEO of Beet.tv, about Microsoft’s IPTV efforts and how they related to startups in particular. Andy and I had a follow up talk looking into the process of partnering with Microsoft, and our engagements...
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ScreenTonic SA Paris, France www.screentonic.com Ranks as Leading Mobile Ad Platform, Works With Major European Carriers, Acquired by Microsoft 2.5 billion mobile phones in use around the world—and still growing. By 2011, advertisers will spend $14.4...
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It's taken a while, but my friend Rob Monster has finally lighted up his early stage VC firm's website , with details of his portfolio and investment approach. He is truly a guy with an S on his chest - having made a grand total of 12 investments...
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John Cook of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote an article yesterday about Bruce Jaffe's talk the Global Red Herring conference in Seattle. Bruce is the Corp VP for Corporate Development at Microsoft. There was some intersting thoughts about the...
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Parlano Inc. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS www.parlano.com Chatting Up Sales, Customers, and Microsoft Attention Picture this, or rather, chat it up: IM on steroids. That’s how Nick Fera, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Parlano, refers to the company’s product. Parlano...
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This week, VC Taskforce organized a panel: What Will Microsoft Acquire Next? Mark Wolfram from Microsoft venture integration team spoke, along with Mark Lazar, EIR at Redpoint, and Henry Wong, former CEO of adECN, sold to Microsoft earlier this year....