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SAN FRANCISCO— U.S. Venture Capital Investment Reaches Highest Level Since Q1 2001, Rises 8% to $8.07 Billion in Third Quarter of 2007    NEW YORK— From BullPoo to The Bargainist,PC Magazine Names Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites    Draper Fisher Jurvetson Closes Oversubscribed DFJ Growth Fund        Ex-Googlers Ready to Start a VC Fund    Productivity Goes Social with Jive   (Jive Software Jobs) Plaxo Launches Pulse Widget  Gnarley: FunnyOrDie Extends Into Extreme Sports  (FunnyOrDie Jobs) Fuzzy Math That Works? TrialPay Says They Can Make Money From Free Products    MYSQL IPO Chatter Picking Up Again   (MYSQL Jobs) ProQuo aims to benefit from stopping junk mail    Rich ads now, Meebo platform next?   (Meebo Jobs) Corporations lock up your genome, while VCs flee biotech  GE, Chevron investing big-time in clean technology    The Funded owner to reveal himself Nov. 15    Phiar, a first alternative to the semiconductor industry  Ad Infuse, for highly targeted mobile advertising    Shawn Of The Dead: Snocap Perishes. imeem Prospers.   (Imeem Jobs) Zazzle Beefs Up Management Team With Former Fox Exec  Imeem Adds EMI To Its Stable    (Imeem Jobs) Skype Launches Its Mobile Phone Overseas    (Skype Jobs) Alibaba Set to Be Second Biggest Internet IPO Ever  Valuing Employee Stock Options with Zions  Meebo Platform Launches With Big San Francisco Party    (Meebo Jobs) MySpace Gets Some Razzle Zazzle    Enurgi to Help the Elderly and Disabled Find Better Care    Docstoc, "YouTube for professional documents," launches  Prosper Registers With SEC to Create a $500 Million Secondary Market in Peer-to-Peer Loans  (Prosper Jobs) Virtual Worlds Meet Trading Cards At Hidden City Games  Get Your HDTV Over The Net With Grid Networks    Car Sharing’s ZipCar Merges With Flexcar   (Zipcar Jobs)

 

               
                  

             

 
               

                  

 

 

 

 

Funding News

Critical Links Raises $5.7 Million in Venture Capital, Expands US Presence    Allozyne, Inc., Closes $30 Million Series B Financing and Appoints Meenu Chhabra as President and Chief Executive Officer  Satellier LLC., Secures $10 Million in Second Round Equity Funding from Sequoia Capital   (Sequoia Jobs) JackBe Raises $9.5M, Provides Mashups for the Enterprise    Trusted Opinion Takes $1.3 Million Series A    Microsoft invests $240M in Facebook, as Facebook develops ad product    Mobile Video’s MoGreet Raises $1.2M  Wimax’s Navini Goes For $330M To Cisco (Navini Networks Jobs) A123′s Latest Round Values Battery Maker At $350M    This Land Is Your Land’s JibJab Raises Further $3M; Launches eCards  Evite Rival Zoji Raises $1.5M    Seattle’s RealSelf Angel Funded    INRIX Raises $15 Million in Series C Funding    Shipwire Completes $4 Million Round, Led by Meakem Becker Venture Capital    Skinkers Raises $16 Million Series B  (Joost Jobs) eXelate Raises $4M for Delayed-Ad Exchange  FiveRuns raises $6.2M as Rails development spreads  Shasta Ventures braves new world, raises $250M more  Hidden City Games raises $15M for trading cards    Songbird, a browser-integrated media player, received $8M last year    OnLive, another data and networking storage startup, raises $16.5M    PicksPal raises $3M more for fantasy sports betting    Cratering VC funding for biotech: Still plenty bad, although not what it originally seemed    Worktopia Raises $5M For Expedia Meets Meeting Places

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