China's venture capital (VC) market continued to improve after last year's retreat, with the number of deals signed growing in the second quarter. Eighty-nine VC deals were disclosed during the April-June period, which was 20.3 percent ...
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Registration is open for the 2013 Flash Memory Summit, to be held August 13-15 in Santa Clara, CA; the Conference Concepts were announced today. The annual event brings together top flash memory technologists and business leaders to discuss ...
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Luminus Devices, a VC-funded firm developing and selling solid-state lighting products, recently was sold to Chinese LED maker Sanan for $22 million. Luminus' customers include LG, Acer, Zumtobel, EYE Lighting, Philips, Denmark's Martin, ...
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Leaders at Tech City firms say their companies are struggling to gain capital, and are sometimes having to make people redundant as a result. A third of Tech City's business leaders said that their companies were hampered by a lack of ...
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At the same time, even as many remain mystified by how it works, the payment alternative has enjoyed rapidly growing?acceptance?among online businesses and, particularly in recent weeks, surging popularity and value. At the time of ...
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High-tech venture capital in the UK and Ireland ended the year on a high note with £209m invested in 60 companies compared to £129m in 48 deals in Q4 2011, says Ascendant, the tech-focussed investment company. Over 2012 as a ...
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British born investor Ben Horowitz, co-founder of investors Andreessen-Horowitz which has funds of $2.7bn invested, is looking for ‘really bad ideas’. "We invest in college drop-outs with insane ideas going after tiny markets ...
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The Optogan group of companies is a vertically integrated producer of High Brightness LEDs based in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. The group is also active in Finland and Germany. Founded in 2004 by 3 graduates of Ioffe ...
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The secondary sale investment follows after Rakuten led a $100m round last year. According to TechCrunch, the funds from SV Angel will be put towards buying secondary shares in Pinterest. SV angel co-founder, David Lee, told TechCrunch ...
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GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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The Apparel Training & Design Centre (ATDC) in collaboration with JUKI India Pvt. Ltd., launched India’s first ‘Technology Innovation Research Centre’ at the ATDC-Training of Trainers’ Academy, Gurgaon to demonstrate ...
Popular micro-blogging website Twitter could be valued at $11 billion if it goes public in 2014, according to a report by specialist financial researchers Greencrest Capital. This would suggest that the company has regained value that was ...
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Organizers of Invest in Photonics 2012, a two-day international convention on photonics venture capital (VC) investment, said that participation at last month’s event increased “despite a tough investment decade in ...
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Network World - Venture capitalists have pumped oodles of money in recent years into startups that exploit telecom networks and wireless infrastructure, but now it might be time for infrastructure startups themselves to start attracting ...
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Liseberg in Gothenburg maintains its position as one of Europe's top amusement parks by offering a steady stream of new attractions while keeping the visual look of the park engaging and fresh. Dynamic lighting schemes from Martin ...
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