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AOL Spends $250M on Stock Market Polish

New York — AOL announced today that its company is buying back $250 million of its stock to shore up earnings for holders of...

$20M Pushes Buttons for ex-Virgin Digital Team's Elevator Labs

Los Angeles — Elevator Labs, a newly formed startup digital business and invention company, secured $20 million in initial funding from KGC Capital. Zack Zalon...

Tech IPOs Delayed

As the stock market's stormy weather continues, several initial public offerings are seeking the shelter of a delay. Trustwave Holdings became the most recent to...

Movieclips Gets $7 M and YouTube Deal

Movieclips announced a partnership with Google that will bring more than 20,000 high-definition clips from Movieclips’ library for viewing on YouTube, an initiative backed...

Groupon Could Use a Savings Voucher

Groupon filed revised documents to the Securities and Exchange Committee that now reveal the deals company lost $255.4 million in the first half of...

Couchbase Secures $14 Million

Mountain View, Calif. - Couchbase, a Mountain View-based developer of NoSQL database software, said on Wednesday it has landed $14 million in its third...

Clearwire Names CEO, Investment Expectations

Kirkland, Wash. — Clearwire Corporation, provider of 4G wireless broadband services and the largest wholesaler of such in the U.S., announced today the promotion...

EchoStar Down, but Hughes Acquisition Looks Hopeful

EchoStar Corp. today reported total revenue of $584 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2011, which is down 3.1 percent compared with $603...

Bloomspot Raises $40 Million

San Francisco, Calif. — Bloomspot, a Groupon-like daily deals start-up service, raised $35 million in a Series B funding round with an additional $5...

Soccer Fans Get Their Own Social Network, Bantr

Bantr, a British startup, has launched a beta version of its social network devoted to soccer, just in time for the 2011 season’s kick-off. Things...