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Law Firm Purges DoubleClick References

The demand for the FTC chair to recuse herself from the Google and DoubleClick antitrust review yielded a surprising little twist.

Tumblr Finds Funding

It’s not quite ready to overtake Blogger or TypePad - from which it claims to be completely different - but Tumblr, a blogging company, is now $750,000 richer thanks to a round of funding.

Waterfront Media Gets $25 Million In Funding

Waterfront Media sounds big, and it is - properties like EverydayHealth.com receive millions of visits per month.  Waterfront Media is also big in a financial sense, and a new round of funding brought it $25 million more.

Pluggd Picks Up $6 Million In Funding

The word “Intel” is powerful, “Labrador” reminds me of friendly dogs, and $6 million - well, you can’t go wrong with $6 million.  And let’s hope that Pluggd doesn’t, as it’s this company that just received $6 million in a round of funding.

Twitter, Indeed Backer Involved In Name Game

Union Square Ventures’s past investments include Del.icio.us and FeedBurner; it’s currently backing Twitter, Indeed, and AdaptiveBlue.  Union Square Ventures is also behind a lawsuit against Union Square Partners, and, for simplicity’s sake, I’ll henceforth refer to the entities as “Ventures” and “Partners.”

Google Offers Investments For Gadgeteers

A new program called Google Gadget Ventures, launched by the search advertising company, will hand out grants and seed investments to worthy gadget writers.

Microsoft To Wallop Social Networking

Technology available through the Microsoft IP Ventures program will take its first big step onto the Internet in 2006 when Wallop.com officially launches in the social networking arena.

The 'Ventures' We Need

I just read Dave Winer's essay on the future of the venture capital industry.

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