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Deal Stocks: CIT, MS, MTB, HAL, SAP, YHOO

[Posted on July 20, 2009 at 5:30 PM]

With CIT seemingly saved, the Dow finished up $104.21, or 1.19%, to 8,848.15 while the Nasdaq finished up 22.68, or 1.20%, to 1,909.29.
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Ray of light for life sciences VCs?

[Posted on July 20, 2009 at 4:00 PM]

The health sector passed a curious milestone: For the first time venture funding of life sciences topped information technology investments.
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SAP pays $90M for SAF

[Posted on July 20, 2009 at 12:30 PM]

SAP continues its run of small acquisitions with an offer for SAF, a maker of planning software for the retail and wholesale industries.
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AOL's new chief details venture arm

[Posted on July 20, 2009 at 6:45 AM]

The new venture arm will nurture technology inside and outside of AOL.
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Yahoo! earnings preview, Microsoft deal rumors

[Posted on July 17, 2009 at 12:30 PM]

Yahoo! and Microsoft executives are meeting in Silicon Valley Friday, reportedly to iron out the final details of a search deal. Both companies report earnings next week.
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VCs protest registering with SEC

[Posted on July 17, 2009 at 7:00 AM]

Flywheel Ventures founder Trevor Loy gave lawmakers a lesson in venture capital this week when he testified against proposals to require VC firms to register with the SEC.
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Biz Stone: 'Someone call security'

[Posted on July 16, 2009 at 8:27 PM]

'Out of context, rudimentary notes of internal discussions will be misinterpreted by current and future partners jeopardizing our business relationships,' blogs Biz Stone about stolen documents published by TechCrunch.
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Sun shareholders OK Oracle deal

[Posted on July 16, 2009 at 5:20 PM]

With a Sun shareholder vote cleared, Oracle now awaits clearance from the Justice Deptartment for its $7.4 billion deal.
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CDC Software plans $73M IPO

[Posted on July 16, 2009 at 4:38 PM]

A Hong Kong game developer will test the IPO market with its Atlanta-based CDC Software.
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No PC acquisitions for Dell

[Posted on July 16, 2009 at 12:45 PM]

Dell is looking for deals, but not in the low-margin, low-growth PC industry.
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Google second-quarter earnings preview

[Posted on July 16, 2009 at 10:58 AM]

Google will report its second-quarter earnings after market close Thursday afternoon. Microsoft's new Bing is just one reason the search engine maker faces increasing competition.
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Jeff Pulver on Twitter and the 'state of now'

[Posted on July 16, 2009 at 7:30 AM]

140 Characters Conference organizer and Twitter investor Jeff Pulver tells The Deal why he thinks the 'state of now' matters in this episode of our Behind the Money online video show.
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Bill Gates on TerraPower, Google OS, physics

[Posted on July 15, 2009 at 1:58 PM]

Bill Gates talks about some pet projects: a nuclear power startup called TerraPower and a series of lectures by physics professor Richard Feynman. And he comments on Google's new OS.
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