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Startup News

Silicon Valley added 7,300 jobs in February, compared to 2007       Survey: Fewer jobs but higher pay for 2008 college grads    Glu Mobile wraps up Superscape buy, raises revenue guidance    Bubble Dims Solar Outlook    Foundation Capital Appoints First US Department of Energy Entrepreneur in Residence   (Foundation Capital Jobs) Latest Sequoia investments highlight global focus   (Sequoia Capital Jobs) Vovici, Austin Ventures’ online research ‘category creator’   (Vovici Jobs) Second Life’s Second Phase  Party Update: Pluck Purchase Price  Microsoft Brings WeeWorld to the NHS  BrightRoll takes online video advertising high-definition  Online kids’ application Kidzui launches safe search service    Stealth Kleiner Perkins company unveils efficiency-boosting material  (KPCB Jobs) Youniversity: A more efficient form of angel investing, with some names you’ll recognize    BroadSoft Going Up Against Ribbit with VoIP Platform for Web Apps    BracketBrains Giving Sports Bettors An Edge    SlideRocket Presentation Web App Enters Private Beta; Get Your Invite Here   (SlideRocket Jobs) Sequoia’s Gospel of Startups More True Than Ever  (Sequoia Capital Jobs) Chart Me Up: Web 2.0 Venture Deals    Venture Hacks Branches Out From Blogging, Launches Recommendations System    Ning: All Our Charts Point Up And To The Right    God 2.0 Online This Easter    Get Into The SearchMe Private Beta Right Now   (SearchMe Jobs) With browser-based viewing and live sports, don’t count Joost out just yet    (Joost Jobs) Rails developers showing love for Heroku    IBeatYou launches a contest site with celebrity flair    Pre-launch Social Media Traffic Booster Adoptic VC Funded    Few Details On Sequoia-Backed CDN Startup Cotendo   (Cotendo Jobs) Anti-Child Predator Startup IMSafer Bought By Rival Crisp Thinking

 

               
                  

             

 
               

                  

 

 

 

 

Funding News

Avenda Systems gets $5M in 2nd round    The UK’s Travel Startup Isango Raises $8M London’s SongKick Raises Further Funding For Online Concert Tools    Zuora Raises $6.5M, Joins SaaS Billing Bonanza  VC Investments Rising In Russian WiMax Service Providers    SendMe Mobile grabs $15 million for mobile media    FTVentures, the VC firm that invests in financial industry, raises $465M, but loses partner  VoloMedia raises $3.5M for download advertising and metrics   (VoloMedia Jobs) SaveOnEnergy.com takes $2.4M to offer consumers power choices    Video company Clearleap raises $9 million from Trinity Ventures and Noro-Moseley Partners    Ad network Federated Media close to raising $30M round, valued at $200M    CleanFish raises $4.2M for sustainable seafood    CafeMom cooks up $12M more in funding    SplashCast gets $4 million for interactive video widgets    RockYou, another web company looking to raise a whopper round   (RockYou Jobs) Start-up info wiki TradeVibes gets $900K  Eight Years Later, Vivisimo Raises $4 Million For Enterprise Search.    WebVisible Takes $12 Million Series B    Disqus Picks Up A Half-Million Dollars From Fred Wilson And Angels  Retrevo Raises $8M More for Aggregation of Consumer Electronics Information  Genesis Partners raising $150M fourth fund    NanoInk raises $12M for nanoscale manufacturing    How-to website SpongeFish raises $2M    Instructional Video Startup Mindbites Raises $1M    Israeli Zoolander Handset Maker Modu Raises $100M  Downloadable Media Advertising’s VoloMedia Raises $3.5M  (VoloMedia Jobs) London’s Spinvox Socks Away $100M Investment    New Sachs venture, 1366 Technologies, gets $12.4M in funding    Adimab, Inc. Announces Series B Financing    Become.com Raises $17.5 Million Investment from TPG Growth    Spiration, Inc. Raises $18.5 Million Equity Financing    OptiMedica Secures $16 Million in Series C Funding   (OptiMedica Jobs) Battelle Ventures Invests in BioNanomatrix, Leading the DNA-Analysis Company $5.1-million Series A Funding Round    Web Sales Optimization’s Amadesa Raises $5.4M

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