Posts Tagged ‘founders fund

The battle between ‘open’ and ‘closed’ on the web started years ago. But it remains an active front as powerful tech companies and young upstarts alike fight for supremacy in markets new and old. Yesterday, the debate over open versus closed took center stage at Google’s I/O conference, where a panel of prominent tech investors [...]

Quantcast, a service that lets anyone check stats and audience information about websites, announced this morning that it has raised $27.5 million in fresh funding from Cisco Systems and others. The company, whose competitors include services like Compete and Alexa, says it will use the funding primarily to expand its ad platform. As for why [...]

Last fall, Facebook’s fbFund had a successful grant competition where it shelled out $25,000 in seed funding each to 25 promising Facebook Platform developers. fbFund is following up that effort by starting a Facebook Platform incubator in Palo Alto, Calif., this summer. fbFund will pick 50 finalists out of the applicants and choose “a few [...]


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