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Verizon Wireless Announces 4G Venture Forum, Designed to Encourage Innovation for Advanced Mobile Networks [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 47 days 23 hours 30 minutes ago
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless, the nation's leading wireless provider, announced today the creation of the 4G Venture Forum (4GVF), a new initiative which uniquely brings together financial investment, product incubation and market validation for products and services that will harness fourth generation (4G) wireless networks. The 4GVF is a collaboration of Verizon Wireless; highly-regarded venture funds including Alcatel-Lucent Ventures, Charles River Partners...

Clicker.com Welcomes Sling Media Founder Blake Krikorian to Board of Directors [Press Release]
Business Wire | 16 days 20 hours 35 minutes ago
Clicker Media Inc. announced today that Blake Krikorian, founder and former CEO of Sling Media, makers of the Sling Box, has joined its board of directors. Krikorian will also become an investor in the company.

McAfee and TheFind Collaborate to Display McAfee SECURE Trustmark in Search Results [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 11 days 13 hours 28 minutes ago
...TheFind Inc. is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and backed by leading investors Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world...

Adap.tv OneSource Becomes the First Dedicated Video Ad Serving Platform to Receive IAB Online Ad Measurement Certification [Press Release]
MarketWire | 17 days 17 hours 35 minutes ago
SAN MATEO, CA and NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 11/04/09 -- [ad:tech NY booth #1711] --

Answers Corporation Reports Q3 2009 Financial Results [Press Release]
Business Wire | 17 days 23 hours 50 minutes ago
Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW), creators of the leading answer engine Answers.com® which includes the properties WikiAnswers® and ReferenceAnswers™, today reported unaudited financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2009.

Panel of Judges Selected for Million Dollar Media Prize at DEMOfall 09 [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 80 days 17 hours 32 minutes ago
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The

SocialVibe Brings Traditional Trick-or-Treat Charity Efforts to Millions of Global Facebook, MySpace and Twitter Users [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 26 days 21 hours 30 minutes ago
...myYearbook, Twitter, WordPress.com and Blogger.com. SocialVibe is backed by venture capital firms Redpoint Ventures and JAFCO Ventures. charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations...

TheFind Unveils First 'Buying Engine' to Help Shoppers Quickly Make Purchase Decisions [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 38 days 19 hours 35 minutes ago
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- TheFind today unveiled a first-of-its-kind "buying engine" that helps shoppers find everything they need to make smart purchase decisions. TheFind now integrates Product Search, Coupon Search, Review Search, Local Shopping Search and Green Shopping Search into a single "universal" search engine at

Search Engine Marketing Sector Continues Stabilization with Positive Momentum in Retail Going into Holiday Season; Bing Makes Click Share Gains since June Launch [Press Release]
Business Wire | 39 days 22 hours 34 minutes ago
The Search Engine Marketing (SEM) industry continued its stabilization in the third quarter of 2009 and included some encouraging signs for the fourth quarter. This is according to Efficient Frontier, a leading performance marketing company with more than $750 million in global client spend annually. This data and specific industry trends were released today in the company’s “Q3 2009 U.S. Search Engine Performance Report.”

Heroku Appoints Byron Sebastian Chief Executive Officer [Press Release]
MarketWire | 37 days 17 hours 36 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/15/09 -- Heroku, the industry's leading Ruby cloud platform as a service provider, announced that it has named Byron Sebastian as the company's new chief executive officer. Sebastian, a veteran technology executive who has held senior leadership roles at BEA Systems, EMC, Crossgain, SourceLabs, and Amazon.com, joins Heroku as the company focuses on expanding its platform services, growing its base of 35,000 deployed customer applications and developing...

Instant, Affordable, On-Demand Market Research Platform [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 68 days 13 hours 3 minutes ago
...several other successful and innovative business ventures, besides being a physician. He embodies the...firms including Sequoia Capital, Charles River Ventures, Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures and Perkins Coie. Press Contact: Clare...

TechCrunch50: Thoora Unveils Real Time News Discovery Service that Tears Down the Silos Between Social and Traditional Media [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 66 days 23 hours 32 minutes ago
Thoora's proprietary platform scours the Internet to find the stories people are talking about - bringing together traditional news articles, blog posts, comments and Tweets

WiChorus Unveils HSPA & LTE Packet Core Solutions Based on its SmartCore 4G Platform [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 65 days 23 hours 32 minutes ago
...California, WiChorus is a private company with financial backing from Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund, Redpoint Ventures and Pinnacle Ventures. For more information, please visit www.wichorus.com. For more information, please visit www...

ToonsTunes Launches World's First Virtual Community Offering an Online Recording Studio and Concert Performances for Kids [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 68 days 17 hours 32 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ --