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After the Brexit vote, many predicted that Venture Capital would dry up, with the UK leaving the single market. It seems like these predictions were wrong, with a rise in technology funding.

Dreyer Smit · Jul 5, 2017 with 3 comments

A new service called Wheelz aims to help college students car share with other students. The service is backed by a VP from Facebook, and was unveiled as a competitor to the other similar services.

Paul Ferson · Sep 28, 2011 with 13 comments

IBM has agreed to acquire XIV, a privately-held developer of software to run large enterprise storage systems. XIV's flagship Nextra platform allows multiple storage devices and applications to be managed under a single system. The...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jan 3, 2008 with 4 comments

Xerox Corp. research subsidiary Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has struck a licensing deal with Powerset Inc. in San Francisco. The two are developing a search engine based on natural language processing, in hopes that...

· Feb 10, 2007 · Hot! with 10 comments

Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the duo that brought the world Skype and Kazaa, have chosen the name 'Joost' for their new online-video start-up. The name has no meaning in Danish, it was simply chosen...

· Jan 15, 2007 · Hot! with 4 comments

Comcast Corp., the No. 1 U.S. cable operator, has bought theplatform, a small online video start up, which has a client list including ABC and the Wall Street Journal, as part of its plans to...

Dave Legg · Jun 29, 2006 with -1 comments

Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against wireless content company MForma, charging the San Francisco-based company and a group of ex-Yahoo employees there with theft of trade secrets. According to the lawsuit, which...

· Feb 27, 2006 with -1 comments

A small San Jose, Calif., company said it has been granted a preliminary injunction preventing Microsoft from incorporating a patented networking method into future versions of Windows. Alacritech said Wednesday that the...

· Apr 13, 2005 with -1 comments

If start-up Cambrios is right, semiconductors and other computer parts in the future won't be built. They'll be bred. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is using methods that will allow researchers to...

· Aug 4, 2004 with -1 comments

Not to long ago the company Procket was for sale, and maybe by the end of next week the buyer of Procket will be announced (if the deal finalizes by then). The two possible...

· Jun 13, 2004 with -1 comments

Start-up Pluck on Monday launched its first product, a set of tools designed to help people add capabilities to Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browsing software. Pluck's self-titled package of browser add-ons promises...

· May 24, 2004 with -1 comments

Sistina Software, a start-up with software to help numerous Linux servers collectively share a single set of data, has obtained $10 million in venture funding, the company said Monday. The Minneapolis-based company's...

· Feb 11, 2003 with -1 comments

Indian tech guru Kanwal Rekhi has whipped himself into shape, lost 70 pounds and is returning to the start-up world after an eight-year hiatus. He has joined a Sunnyvale Web-hosting company, Ensim. ...

Darren Bolton · Dec 6, 2002 with -1 comments

Start-up Guardian Digital has launched an effort to sell a version of Linux that's less vulnerable to attack, a niche the company hopes will gain it a foothold in the market for the Unix-like operating...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Sep 25, 2002 with -1 comments

Thanks Grappa for this. The ideal computer display of today may be flat, but a start-up called Actuality Systems has gazed into the future, and what it has seen looks more like a crystal ball....

· Jun 29, 2002 with -1 comments

Hoping to succeed in a difficult task, a software start-up plans to sell a version of Linux designed to run popular Windows programs. Lindows.com, a 20-person San Diego company led by former...

· Oct 24, 2001 with -1 comments