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NBCU Invests in BlogHer for iVillage; Sets Up Ad Network

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Some new residents are settling down in NBC Universal's iVillage. In a sign of how the General Electric media unit views the property, the company today said its Peacock Equity capital-investment arm helped finance a $5 million investment in BlogHer, an online community for female bloggers.

Amazon invests in Engine Yard's cloud computing

Software company Engine Yard said Monday that it has closed on a US$15 million Series B round of financing from New Enterprise Associates and Amazon.com. Its previous investor Benchmark Capital also participated in the round.

Amazon invests in Engine Yard's cloud computing

Software company Engine Yard said Monday that it has closed on a $15 million Series B round of financing from New Enterprise Associates and Amazon.com. Its previous investor Benchmark Capital also participated in the round.

Intel invests in genome-sequencing outfit

INQUIRER Newsdesk the Inquirer, Monday 14 July 2008. 12:51:00 Come on Eugene A BUNCH of fad-wadded companies is to bung $100 million at a start-up that aims to be able to deliver individuals' DNA sequence a genome in a matter of minutes.

Intel invests in genome-sequencing outfit

A BUNCH of fad-wadded companies is to bung $100 million at a start-up that aims to be able to deliver individuals' DNA sequence a genome in a matter of minutes.

Canon invests in XS capacity

Canon USA has announced the EOS Rebel XS, launched in other markets as the EOS 1000D on June 10th. In the United States, the camera will be available in a choice of black or silver but will not be available as body-only, with all units coming bundled with the EF-S 18-55mm IS lens. Canon has also announced its plans to build its first new Japanese factory for over a quarter of a century, which will build digital cameras.

Canon Invests At Home To Keep Pace In Digital Cameras

Japan's Canon on Monday released its 17.4 billion yen ($161.8 million) plan to build a new digital camera manufacturing facility on the island of Kyushu to meet growing market demand. The firm expects the new factory will help it contend with heated competition from Sony, for simpler models, and Nikon, for more sophisticated ones.

EC invests AU$660m in robotics R&D

The European Commission has announced it is to double the amount of funding given over to robotics research and development.

IBM Invests in Open-Source Database

EnterpriseDB competes with Oracle and Sun's recently acquired MySQL and has raised $10 million in additional financing, it said at the Open Source Business Conference. IBM and EnterpriseDB have worked together on other products. IBM said its investment highlights its commitment to open source, although its investments have been thin.

Comcast Invests in P2P

AHTuttle writes to mention Comcast, recently under fire for throttling P2P traffic, has decided to invest in a P2P video-delivery startup called GridNetworks. "Seattle-based GridNetworks on Monday said that Comcast would make an unspecified investment in the company and collaborate on developing so-called peer-to-peer file-sharing techniques that are "friendly" to Internet service providers."

Abramovich invests $120m in art

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Comcast invests in P2P startup

Comcast is befriending another peer-to-peer software company in the hopes of finding a way to harness the power of P2P without choking its network.

NYSE Invests in Red Hat Linux

The New York Stock Exchange and its European subsidiary exchanges have successfully transitioned to run on Red Hat Enterprsie Linux. NYSE CIO Steve Rubinow acknowledged that Linux runs NYSE's mission-critical trading systems.

Google invests in solar startup BrightSource

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Search engine giant Google continues to invest in alternative energy startups. This time, Google has invested in BrightSource Energy Inc.

Google invests in plug-in cars

Aptera Motors of Carlsbad, California and Austin-based ActaCell will receive an undisclosed amount of funding from the internet firm.

Google invests in plug-in cars

Aptera Motors of Carlsbad, California and Austin-based ActaCell will receive an undisclosed amount of funding from the internet firm.

IBM invests $1.5bn in nanotechnology

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IBM invests $15bn in nanotechnology

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Alibaba Group invests 2 bln yuan in online auction unit Taobao.com [XFNA]

BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - China's leading e-commerce company Alibaba Group, the parent of Hong Kong-listed Alibaba.com, has invested 2 bln yuan in online C2C auction unit Taobao.com.

Ont. government invests $18M in new nanotech and quantum computing centre

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Ont. government invests $18M in new nanotech and quantum computing centre

Premier Dalton McGuinty made the announcement Monday at the groundbreaking for the $160-million facility.

Amazon.com Invests In Video Shopping Site

Amazon.com has made an investment in The Talk Market, a New York startup that bills itself as a "user-generated TV Shopping Channel." Amount of the investment was not disclosed. According to The Talk Market, the equity investment closed in May. The Talk Market provides tools that allow users to upload videos, and generate graphic overlays, add graphics, and soundtracks and sell items from the company's web site; Amazon provides payment services with the Amazon Web Services Flexible Payment Service to the company.


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