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In a story exclusive to The Deal, Mary Kathleen Flynn reports on the ambitions and humbled expectations of Latin American media mogul Fernando Espuelas, whose Voy LLC was intended to...

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Dysfunctional microblogging service Twitter Inc. is rumored to have acquired Summize Inc., a search engine designed to crawl through individual Twitter posts or tweets. The rumor, which has yet...

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Musicians' services startup Topspin Media Inc. has closed a Series B round featuring first-time investor Foundry Group, according to three blog posts that appeared this afternoon. The amount of the...

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EMI Group plc has once again reached outside the music business to shore up its management team,Monday naming longtime consumer products executive Elio Leoni-Sceti as the label's new CEO of...

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Former About Group CEO Scott Meyer begins a new job Monday as entrepreneur in residence at private equity firm Warburg Pincus, reports paidContent.org. Sources tell Tech...

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With growing portfolios of clean energy and environmental technology startups under their belts, Virgin Green Fund of the U.K. and Dubai's Masdar Clean Tech Fund turned to the buyout market...

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Fernando Espuelas, who was known as the Latin Bill Gates during the dot-com bubble a decade ago when he founded StarMedia Networks Inc., tells Tech Confidential he is considering offers from...

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Yahoo! Inc. [YHOO] shares were up 8.5% %, to $23.19, in early trading on news that Microsoft Corp. [MSFT] is interested in buying the Internet company's search assets, or Yahoo!...

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Six companies presented five-minute demonstrations for an audience of VCs, media, peer startups and advisers at last evening's Big Summer Geek-Out, presented by SF New Tech and held at Mighty...

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All that's left are the strategic deals, says Peter Falvey, managing director and co-founder of Revolution Partners, a Boston investment bank that focuses solely on technology mergers and...

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