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0	The semantic web shoots the Moon A day before SpaceX makes their much-hyped “big announcement”–the follow-up to a teaser video that looks oddly like a Mountain Dew commercial– another... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Apr 4, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	CrowdFlower taps the power of the crowd to get more accurate business listings (exclusive) CrowdFlower is one of many Web 2.0 businesses that taps the power of the crowd to get work done. Today, the company is formally releasing its Business... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Dec 5, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	‘Super angel’ Aydin Senkut raises $40M fund Felicis Ventures, the firm created by early Googler (and VentureBeat investor) Aydin Senkut, just announced that it has raised $40 million. It’s the... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Aug 15, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Kngine: An awesome semantic search engine, costing just $1K a month If you haven’t used the search engine Kngine yet, check it out next time you’re doing some research online. It’s taken another step toward solving... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Aug 9, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Social email startup Etacts backed by big-name angels Etacts, a startup that uses social data to help you manage their email contacts, has raised $700,000 in a seed round of funding. Palo Alto,... Source: venturebeat.com Date: May 14, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 1
0	Internet entrepreneur Calacanis launches Open Angel Forum, a free-access-to-investors program Entrepreneurs seeking funding for tech startups have found that some angel investors, their only realistic source of seed capital, now charge them... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Dec 6, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Car Rental Marketplace Getaround Gets Around $3.4 Million Car rental community Getaround is announcing a $3.4 million seed round today, with participation from Netflix founder Marc Randolph, Powerset founder... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Sep 9, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Three Big Geeks Leave Microsoft in One Day, Including Barney Pell Barney Pell of Powerset, ZuneHD business development lead Dave McLauchlan and Windows 7 gaming project manager Ruchit Garg all announced today that... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Sep 6, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	From Search Engines To Lunar Landers: Barney Pell’s Next Startup Is Moon Express Most people wouldn't think a good follow up to selling your search engine company to Microsoft would be to then start a company that will build lunar... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Apr 4, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Microsoft Research Watch: AI, NoSQL and Microsoft's Big Data Future Probase is a Microsoft Research project described as an "ongoing project that focuses on knowledge acquisition and knowledge serving." Its primary... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Mar 21, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	The Acquisition of Etacts and Email as a Platform Etacts, an email add-on that layers social network profiles, conversation history and other relationship management information on top of your email... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Dec 21, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	TekTrak Gets Seeded Los Angeles-based TekTrak, a developer of an iPhone application to help users locate lost a lost iPhone, said Tuesday that it has received a round of... Source: socaltech.com Date: Dec 14, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Ground breaking essay on team building Go read Steve Newcomb’s essay on building teams: Cult Creation Steve’s the founder of Powerset. This essay is very long and very good. It’s the best... Source: venturehacks.com Date: Oct 14, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Indianapolis MotoGP Racers Receive Cardo scala rider® G4™ PowerSet Motorcycle Communication Systems PITTSBURGH, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardo Systems, Inc., the world's market leader in wireless Bluetooth® communication systems for motorcycle... Source: prnewswire.com Date: Aug 30, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Founders Fund Talks Space, Robots, Elon Musk and Why It Didn’t Back Tesla Motors It was nearly five years ago that Founders Fund -- led by four entrepreneurs with deep ties to PayPal and Facebook -- burst onto the venture scene,... Source: pehub.com Date: Jul 27, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Time To Meet Wavii, The Super Stealth, Super Awesome Startup Based In…Seattle? Get ready to start hearing a lot about a startup in Seattle called Wavii. There's been some buzz building about them, mostly leaks from spurned... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Jul 21, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Google Makes Major Semantic Web Play, Acquires Freebase Operators Metaweb The Semantic Web is all about structuring data so that humans and computers can more easily interpret the Web and discover relevant data for a wide... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Jul 16, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Does Facebook Really Want a Semantic Web? Two weeks ago, Facebook has announced a major new initiative called Facebook Open Graph. This is an attempt to not only re-imagine Facebook, but in a... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: May 6, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Founder Spotlight: Siqi Chen of Serious Business You might call 26-year-old Siqi Chen an accidental entrepreneur. The UC San Diego grad didn’t intend to be his own boss; he mostly wanted to do fun... Source: pehub.com Date: Jan 24, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Top 10 Failures of 2009 In our yearly wrap-ups of the best products of 2009, we cannot but notice the shadow that falls over the editorial desk. We are chilled and saddened... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Dec 7, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0