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Microtune provides exit for Auvitek investors

[Posted on July 10, 2009 at 2:33 PM]

Microtune will acquire Auvitek for $9 million plus a potential earnout.
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CoTweet raises $1.1M from Baseline, etc.

[Posted on July 10, 2009 at 2:30 PM]

CoTweet, which helps companies collaborate on Twitter accounts, raised 1.1 million. Watch The Deal's recent video with CoTweet co-founder and CEO Jesse Engel.
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Google Chrome OS: Conflict for Eric Schmidt

[Posted on July 10, 2009 at 1:44 PM]

The FTC is already investigating whether Google CEO Eric Schmidt's directorship of Apple violates antitrust law. Google's Chrome OS puts the search engine maker in direct competition with Apple.
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Will Google Chrome OS bankrupt Canonical?

[Posted on July 10, 2009 at 1:37 PM]

Look out Canonical, publishers of Ubuntu Linux, because Google's Chrome OS project could eat it for lunch.
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Finding companies to invest in

[Posted on July 9, 2009 at 5:02 PM]

Foundry Group's Jason Mendelson muses on where VCs find their investments.
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Rupert Murdoch won't buy Twitter, sell MySpace

[Posted on July 9, 2009 at 12:40 PM]

Will Rupert Murdoch buy Twitter? 'No,' he told reporters at the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Will he sell MySpace? 'Hell no.'
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Kleiner Perkins' Big Three of electric cars?

[Posted on July 9, 2009 at 11:22 AM]

Kleiner Perkins is already invested in electric car startups Fisker Automotive and V-Vehicles. Perhaps it will invest in a third one involving an exiled Chinese auto tycoon.
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Peter Lee on joining Baroda Ventures

[Posted on July 9, 2009 at 6:45 AM]

David Bohnett, the founder of Internet phenom GeoCities, returns to angel investing this week. The Deal spoke with Peter Lee, whom Bohnett has brought in as a partner at Baroda Ventures.
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Google the fly in Microsoft's ointment

[Posted on July 8, 2009 at 11:42 AM]

As media moguls and tech dealmakers mingle at Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley conference this week, one topic may be the just-announced Google Chrome OS, aimed squarely at Microsoft's Windows.
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Venture capital fundraising tumbles 63%

[Posted on July 8, 2009 at 11:10 AM]

In the first half of 2009, only 51 new venture funds raised $5.1 billion -- that's 63% less than was raised in the same period of 2008, according to Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst.
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Top Cooley deal lawyers join Dewey

[Posted on July 8, 2009 at 6:45 AM]

In a surprise move, Rick Climan, Keith Flaum and Eric Reifschneider leave Cooley for Dewey.
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David Hornik on the VC math problem

[Posted on July 8, 2009 at 6:45 AM]

August Capital partner David Hornik discusses how the incredible shrinking VC industry affects big, capital-intensive companies. August Capital raised the year's biggest VC fund at $650 million.
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Mike Volpi joins Index, talks about Joost

[Posted on July 7, 2009 at 12:59 PM]

Former Cisco M&A chief Mike Volpi talks about his latest stint as CEO of online video startup Joost and his new job as a partner at Index Ventures, a lead backer of Joost.
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