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Joe / Techdirt:
Woz Raises $150 Million For, Well, Nobody Knows — Looking to capitalize on the Apple halo effect, three former company executives, including co-founder Steve Wozniak, took their new company, Acquicor Technology, public yesterday in an IPO raising $150 million.
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Matt Marshall / siliconvalley.com:
Ex-Apple executives seek tech properties to acquire — NEW PUBLIC COMPANY RAISES $150 MILLION TO INVEST — A trio of former Apple Computer executives, riding on the reputation of the famous company's brand, has created a new public company that will shop to acquire technology properties.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Podtech raises $5.5 million to create the "NPR" of podcasting — Gee, this we weren't expecting...venture capital flowing to podcast creation. — John Furrier is a bit of a hyperactive guy you will see at technology conferences around Silicon Valley. He bounds around with a microphone …
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Jfurrier / PodTech.net:
PodTech Receives $5.5 Million in Series A Funding from US Venture Partners and Venrock Associates … MENLO PARK, CA. (March 16, 2006) PodTech.Network, Inc., a media company dedicated to podcasting and delivering Fresh Voices™ for the iPod generation, announced today …
John Battelle / Federated Media Publishing Inc.:
Financing News: FM Gains a New Partner — I'm very pleased to announce that Federated Media has closed its Series A financing, with JP Morgan Partners (JPMP) as the lead investor. All of FM's seed investors - the Omidyar Network, The New York Times, and several angels (my post on the first round is here) …
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John Battelle / Federated Media Publishing Inc.:
FM Financing Release — Contact: Jennifer Charette, Federated Media Publishing — Federated Media Publishing Closes Series A Financing — Sausalito, CA, March 15, 2006 - Federated Media Publishing Inc., a Sausalito, CA-based Internet publishing business, announced today the completion of its Series A financing.
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GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Social Software Weblog, PaidContent.org and Texas Venture Capital …
Workbench:
Letter from Dave Winer's Attorney — I received this letter Friday from Christopher C. Cooke, Dave Winer's attorney: … Last spring, in a work-for-hire agreement with Winer, I ported Weblogs.Com from a Frontier application running in Windows to an Apache/MySQL/PHP application running on Linux.
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Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
About feeds.scripting.com — This is a response to a post by Rogers Cadenhead on his blog today. — 1. I wanted to get feeds.scripting.com running again, and had had a good experience with Rogers on work he did for me on weblogs.com. I outlined a plan and sent Rogers a draft of a written agreement.
Next Generation:
Analyst: Halo 3 Back in the Frame — A leading analyst says PlayStation 3's delay could prompt Microsoft to seek to sabotage the launch with the timely release of its key Xbox 360 title Halo 3. — » read more — Comment: Gloom Greets Sony Delay — Sony has at last admitted …
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Sam Kennedy / 1up.com:PS3 Conference Report - Date and More!
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macobserver.com:
TMO at SxSW - User Interface Designers Talk OS X, XP/Vista — This year's South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive festival, which concluded Tuesday on the eve of the famed music festival, served up a number of interesting panel discussions, but none of greater interest to Mac users than Tuesday's …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:Newsmaker: Tribble on Apple's security troubles
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Computerworld:
RFID tags vulnerable to viruses, study says — Attacks could soon come in the form of a SQL injection or a buffer overflow attack — MARCH 15, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Three computer science researchers are warning that viruses embedded in radio tags used to identify and track goods …
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Blog supplier Six Apart receives $12 mln in funding — SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 (Reuters) - Six Apart Ltd., a provider of blogging software, on Wednesday said it had received around $12 million in a third round of funding for use in new products, international expansion and network growth.
facetime.com:
FaceTime Identifies New Botnets Utilizing Instant Messaging to Steal Personal Information from Online Shoppers and PayPal Customers — FOSTER CITY, CALIF — March 15, 2006 — Research experts at FaceTime Security Labs™ identified and reported a new threat today affecting instant messaging (IM) applications.
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Joel Rothstein / Reuters:
Bill Gates mocks MIT's $100 laptop project — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Wednesday mocked a $100 laptop computer for developing countries being developed with the backing of rival Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG …
Russell Beattie Notebook:
EQO: Wonky but it works — So I downloaded EQO - the app that lets you chat and make calls and chat over Skype from your mobile phone. Which sounds cool, but I was confused on how exactly it worked so I just grabbed it. Well it turns out that it installs a little agent that runs …
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
iTunes Movies are for Suckers — Mac Rumors: iTunes Movies to be sold for $9.99? Although an Apple movie service is not confirmed yet, MacRumors.com is reporting that iTunes has their first online movie up for sale. For $9.99 you can get a crappy DRM infested low res version …
Katie / Shiny Shiny:
Motorola PEBL in 4 new colours — Motorola's finally announced those coloured PEBLs we posted oh-so-long ago. The U6 PEBLs are available in orange, pink, blue and green. The exteriors may be jazzed up but the specs are the same (ie. bog-standard fashion phone feature set).
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Announcing TalkCrunch: A New Weekly Podcast — I am happy to announce the launch of a new podcast blog - TalkCrunch. Each week we'll be posting a new episode, featuring founders of companies we've written about the previous week. — For our inagural episode, we invite Ethan Stock …
down the avenue:
Armstrong & Kottke Chat — A casual fireside chat with Jason Kottke and Heather Armstrong on Day 2 of SXSW allows us to see more character and personality than I've experienced with either of them one-on-one. They both brought out an interesting playful side of each other.
Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
LG to deliver dual-format HD DVD/Blu-ray — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Korea's LG Electronics Inc. (066570.K: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it planned to launch a next-generation DVD player that will bridge the yawning gap between two competing formats by playing both HD DVD and Blu-ray.
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