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How badly could a recession hurt cleantech?

It’s safe to say that the cleantech investors who pumped tens of billions of dollars into cleantech over the past three years didn’t expect a serious recession any more than anyone else. Yet with one on the horizon, it looks as if heavily-funded technologies like wind and solar power ...

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VentureBeat — 15 hours ago

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Expect to see start-ups and VCs hit standoff over valuations

When the stock market goes into the dumps, it takes a while for the effects to trickle down to start-ups. That’s because start-ups are often are working away on a project that’s isolated from the larger market — and if they’re lucky, they have money from venture capitalist...

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VentureBeat — 16 hours ago

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Google prepping special iPhone ads?

Just because Google will soon release its mobile operating system Android, it’s not ignoring the iPhone. In fact, the online ad giant is preparing to offer advertisers a way to tailor ads for iPhone users, according to Adweek. For example, a normal American Airline web ad would offer a link...

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VentureBeat — 17 hours ago

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Remaining objective when fear is in the air

[Editor's Note: Taking a break from the doom and gloom of the economic downturn, venture capitalist William Quigley offers a more optimistic assessment of the current situation.] It is hard to believe that just 8 years ago, venture capitalists were facing what we all thought would be the ‘g...

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VentureBeat — 18 hours ago

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Twofish raises $4.5M to create economies for virtual worlds

Twofish has raised $4.5 million in a second round of funding for its business of creating the economic infrastructure behind virtual worlds. The deal is another indication that the virtual goods economy is heating up, even as the real world economy spirals downward. The Palo Alto, Calif. company ...

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VentureBeat — 19 hours ago