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Zoodles Raises $2.6 Million For Kid-Friendly Browser

The Zoodles interface is a personal playground for kids, which is series of games, puzzles and videos that are broken down by type on a page. And the interface is customized to a user’s age, so a 5-year-old may get a different screen as a 3-year-old. Content is aggregated from kid-friendly sites across the web. The browser also includes large tabs, mouse controls adapted to small hands and an interface that doesn’t require reading skills.
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Klout - Measure Influence And Authority On Twitter

Klout, which recently released a new API, evaluates Twitter users’ behavior with complex ranking algorithms and semantic analysis of content to measure the influence of individuals and topics around the web. Since the company’s launch in 2008, Klout has registered over 250,000 users and over 300 API partners, including CoTweet, HootSuite, and the newly-launched Tweetup, and is handling millions of API calls a day.
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Quirky Raises $6 Million For Social Product Development Platform

Quirky is a platform for product ideas that are born on napkin doodles and in other unorthodox ways. The site then tries to use crowdsourcing to develop the product, by engaging participants in collaborating on every aspect of product creation – from ideation, design, naming, manufacturing, marketing, to sales. It’s like a social network for product development.
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Plastic Jungle Raises $7.4 Million for Gift Card Marketplace

Plastic Jungle lets you buy, sell and exchange gift cards online. Instead of receiving cash for your gift card, Plastic Jungle also lets you trade the value in for an Amazon gift card or give your money to charity. Users can receive cash for unwanted gift cards for up to 92% of the unused balance and buy gift cards at up to a 30% discount. The company says that it will use the funds to accelerate product development and work on other ways to create supply and demand for gift cards on the site.
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Two U.S. Bills Seek to Lure Immigrant Entrepreneurs

the bill would permit an "immigrant entrepreneur to receive a 2-year visa if he or she can show that a qualified U.S. investor is willing to dedicate a significant sum-a minimum of $250,000-to the immigrant's start-up venture."
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TWiST #28 with Kamran Pourzanjani | This Week in Startups

If you can watch it through, you'll find an interview with the pikk CEO. What do you think? (the Shark Tank interview starts at about 35 minutes in)
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MashLogic - pops up related web sites over the one you're reading

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MashLogic basically extends any web site by providing relevant information from other sites in a pop up bubble that appears when you hover over specific underlined words. For example, in a New York Times story on Carnegie Hall, if you hover over the name of the venue, a bubble pops up with its corresponding Wikipedia entry so you can choose to learn more. Many web users have grown to hate these pop-ups because they usually contain unwanted advertising pitches. So it will be interesting to see if MashLogic can escape that stigma.
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Venture Capitalists Want Exemption from regulation

Venture capitalists said on Wednesday they should be exempt from President Obama's proposed changes in financial regulation, arguing they were not part of the problem. The National Venture Capital Association, the trade association of venture capitalists, said their industry is "relatively inconsequential" compared to other parts of the financial industry.
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Profeesor: Web startups don't need VC anymore b/c it's so cheap

As the cost of starting a Web company decreases, thanks to cloud computing services and technology that entrepreneurs can rent instead of buy, many founders can finance a new company without the help of venture capitalists, using their savings, money from family and friends and credit card debt, Mr. Hendershott writes. More often, they are choosing to sell small, immature companies instead of taking the longer, riskier path of developing a business that could one day go public. That makes venture capital less relevant, he concludes.
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Tremor Media Raises $18 Million For Web Video Ads

NYC-based Tremor says it grew revenues in triple digits in 2008 for the third year in a row. It will use the money to build out its ad network and invest in video technology, including Acudeo, its video ad platform.
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Twitter is worth at least $250 Million according to VC valuation

Twitter, which just recently turned down a half billion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook (albeit to be paid mostly with Facebook stock), is dipping back into the venture capital market, we’ve heard from a source with knowledge of the deal. They’ve signed a term sheet with at least one venture fund to raise a new round at a $250 million valuation. We are still gathering information on how much they’re raising and from whom.
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Venture fund firm subpoenas anonymous VC review site over comment

The offending comment: "Worked with these people on several deals and they are to be avoided unless you are desperate. Beaus Laskey, the only honest straightforward person in the bunch, has left the firm.”
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