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SAN FRANCISCO , A panel of veteran design software entrepreneurs concluded Thursday that while participation in the development of standards is a valuable activity for small companies, it is not nearly as ...

Epocal , a developer of enterprise point-of-care blood diagnostic products, announces the first closing of a Series B investment round and funding support from the Government of Canada.

At Shenzhen confab, ranking officials promote venture capital as critical to stimulating innovation in Chinese enterprise.

LONDON , German group Siemens AG has acquired, for an undisclosed sum, privately owned Myrio Corporation as part of its strategy to become a leading player in home and entertainment networks.

While the U.S. returns to early-stage investments, Australia - -s rebounded economy has clung to the latter-stage, shied away from biotech and IT - "and suffered.

Tom Rowley Featured on Panel of IT Security Experts to Address Distributed Policy Management Preventsys Inc., a pioneer in enterprise security management, today announced that chief executive officer Tom Rowley ...

The FTSE 100 index has extended the week's advance, buoyed by easier oil prices and supported by firm miners with Boots top gainer as Thursday's profit warning prompted talk of a bid or break-up move for the ...

Venture capital investment in Irish companies has grown dramatically in the first quarter of the year, with the €75.4m invested more than twice the amount invested in the previous quarter.

LONDON , Nortel has invested $10 million in Indian telecommunications group Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd for an undisclosed stake.

TEREY, Calif. , A revolution is coming to the electronics industry, says Juan-Antonio Carballo, partner in IBM's venture capital group , and it's based on "open" hardware that will foster the kind of ...

Wireless Mesh: New Wave Broadband Wireless mesh has run the cycle of hype and disappointment several times before, but now a new breed of infrastructure mesh + aimed at metro, campus, and enterprise ...

John H. Grayson Jr. of Morgan Keegan and Co. Inc. and W. Randall Pittman of Emageon Inc.

BOSTON, Mass., April 7, 2005 , Pyramid Advisors LLC , a Boston-based hotel development, management and ownership firm, today announced that Daniel C. Wright has joined the company as chief financial officer.

The Emerging Venture Network, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit group setup to help growing minority-owned companies learn how to raise venture capital and other sources of non-bank financing, such as government ...

OSK Ventures International Bhd is looking at managing external funds worth US$100 million this year via a possible joint venture with another foreign private equity expert.

Want to mimic the rich? It's surprisingly easy to do, thanks to business development companies, or BDCs, which make private-equity bets by lending to small companies and taking venture-capital stakes.

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development partners with angel investors and other NC-based entrepreneurial support organizations for 'Angel Investor Retreat'. The event offers networking and educational ...

It doesn't take much more than a glance at oil prices to figure out that energy has become the biggest drag on the economy.

Fabless chip firm Icera has added another $10m to its venture capital funding, taking the total raised to $42.5m. The firm, which has R&D; in Bristol but is now headquartered in the US, raised the additional ...

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Further details have emerged regarding the fresh round of funding announced by British publisher Codemasters earlier this week, with venture capital firm Benchmark revealing that it has acquired 40 per cent of ...

San Francisco buyout firm Hellman & Friedman LLC said it is paying $450 million for a controlling stake in Swiss-held insurer Universal Underwriters Group, the most it has ever spent in a private equity deal.

Integrian, a leader in mobile digital video technology for the public safety, transportation and Federal Government markets, has secured $13 million in growth capital through a Series B venture capital ...

At least three candidates are preparing to run for the San Bruno City Council in the fall, in sharp contrast to the last election called off for lack of interest.

ICEHOUSE resident Nexus6 has attracted first round funding of $500,000 through a combination of business angel and venture capital funding.

But tiny transistors are still a ways from commercialization. April 5, 2005 The U.S. Patent Office approved a patent application by Nanosys Tuesday for nanowire-based field effect transistors , which could be ...

Protonex Technology Corp. , a developer of fuel cell power solutions for portable and remote applications, announced that it has raised $9 million in a second round of institutional funding.

Chip maker Advanced Analogic Technologies , of Sunnyvale, filed yesterday to go public in an offering expected to be about $172.5 million.

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Nampa-based MPC Computers announced last week that a small Denver software firm has agreed to acquire it.

The acquisition of SunGard Data last week could lead to the software and disaster recovery specialist being broken up, experts have warned.

As they prepare to join executives from more than 20 other startups making pitches for money today at the 3 Rivers Venture Fair , Mary Del Brady and Angela Kennedy have no time for hand-wringing over the fact ...

A summary of news releases for Apr. 2, 3 and 4, 2005, compiled by Business Wire, the global leader in news distribution.

A decade after pioneering tiny MEMS sensors, Crossbow defends its turf against a new crop of rivals.

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