Official Google Blog: Google's newest venture

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googleblog.blogspot.com - 3/31/2009

Official Google Blog: Google's newest venture

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Today we're excited to announce Google Ventures , Google's new venture capital fund. This is Google's effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies. By borrowing the best practices of top-tier, financially focused venture ...

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Official Google Research Blog: Predicting the Present with Google Trends

— googleresearch.blogspot.com — Posted by Hal Varian, Chief Economist and Hyunyoung Choi, Decision Support Engineering Analyst Can Google queries help... predict economic activity? The answer depends on what you mean by "predict." Google Trends and Google Insights for Search provide a ... (more) Official Google Research Blog: Predicting the Present ...

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— google.com — Compare by Search terms Locations Time ranges Filter Search terms Locations Time Ranges Tip: Use the plus... sign to indicate OR. (tennis + squash) Tip: Use a comma as shorthand to add comparison items. (tennis, squash) Tip: Use quotation marks to match ... (more) Google Insights for Search

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Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter (Updated)

— techcrunch.com — Here’s a heck of a rumor that we’ve sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations:... Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that ... (more) Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter (Updated)

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DealBook: Google Announces Venture Fund

Xconomy: Rich Miner, New Manager of Google Ventures, Calls New England “A Fertile Ecosystem…A Great Place to Be”

Abnormal Returns: Tuesday links: contracts under assault

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Google Announces Venture Fund
DealBook — ... is an ideal time to invest in nascent companies that have the chance to be the “next big thing,” and we’ll be working hard to find them.” Google Ventures has already made two investments: Silver Spring Networks , a company that makes technology to help manage electric grids, and Pixazza , which links online images with related products that can be purchased. Google declined to say how much it invested in those companies. Go to Article from The New York Times » Go to Announcement from Google Blog » Go to Related Item from DealBook »

Rich Miner, New Manager of Google Ventures, Calls New England “A Fertile Ecosystem…A Great Place to Be”
Xconomy — ... Last night, though, Google went public with the project, in a company blog post written by Miner and his co-managing partner, Bill Maris, an entrepreneur and former neuroscientist hired by Google to start the fund. Miner and Maris said Google Ventures will make early-stage investments in a range of industries; they mentioned the consumer Internet, software, cleantech, biotech, and healthcare by name, but that added the firm would also invest in “other areas we haven’t thought of yet.” ...

Tuesday links: contracts under assault
Abnormal Returns — ... One fallout from the economic crisis, “Contracts everywhere are under assault.” (NYTimes.com) On the parallels between the US in 1929 and China in 2009. (Infectious Greed) Another head scratcher from Google (GOOG). A push into venture capital when the underlying business is lagging. (Daily Finance, A VC, Google) High ticket prices and a down economy are putting ...

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