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ContentNext Up For Sale

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Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent. Ali had founded the blog after he lost a job immediately after September 11th. Names of potential buyers were not discussed. READ MORE>>.

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Microsoft’s $1.2 Billion Acquisition of Yammer Complete

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According to the Jared Spataro Senior Director, Office Division, Microsoft in a blog post the firm had met all the requirements regarding the acquisition. Yammer on its blog says ,”We’re pleased to announce that Yammer is now part of Microsoft’s Office Division. Yammer was launched in 2008 and raised $142 million then.

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1001 Serial Articles for Entrepreneurs & Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

As of today, I will have published an article here for entrepreneurs and startups every day for the last 1001 days, since I started Startup Professionals Musings near the close of 2008. I still plan to publish on this blog occasionally, as well as more frequently on my blogs at Forbes , Huffington Post , and others.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008). They sponsor TWiVC.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData).

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

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In this role, he reports directly to Alan Mulally, Ford’s president and chief executive officer. In 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs.

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Avelas Bio Raises $20M to Push Cancer-Illuminating Biologic Agent

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Avelas licensed its core technology from the UC San Diego lab of Roger Tsien, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein. The first-in-human trials of AVB-620 began last year at UC San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center.

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