Bailout: Senate to vote Wednesday
The Senate plans to vote on the $700 billion bank rescue plan Wednesday evening - two days after the House failed to pass it.
Welcome To Bizarro World – Google Takes A Leap Back To 2001
As part of its 10th birthday celebration, Google has opened the doors to an antiquated version of its search engine that dates back to 2001. The portal has all the trimmings from the old site, including the goofy logo (complete with exclamation point), a missing “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, and the not-so-modest claim of having indexed 1,326,920,000 web pages.
It’s cool to see things the way they were (though they haven’t changed all that much), but the real fun lies in running a few searches. Google’s blog post offers a few examples: The iPod referred to a Document Processing System, and YouTube gets zero hits.
And most humbling: a search for TechCrunch yields a single link to a now-defunct learning website.
Because so much of the web has changed since 2001, Google is also including links to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, which includes cached copies of pages from that time period. Google says that the site will remain open for one month - after that, it’s history.
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Senate to vote on rescue plan Wednesday
The Senate plans to vote on the $700 billion bank rescue plan Wednesday evening - two days after the House failed to pass it.
Google price corrected after trading snafu
An accidental trade drove shares of Google Inc. to unbelievable lows Tuesday, causing the Nasdaq to correct the stock's closing price and adjust the index's final value.
Startups Best Positioned To Weather A Downturn
Now that Congress has failed to bail out Wall Street, the country (and world, to a lesser extent) has begun bracing itself for nuclear winter. The technology sector is no exception, even if the Silicon Valley tends to fancy itself as immune to broader economic turmoil.
As Fred Wilson points out, startups fortunate enough to enjoy venture capital will fare the best during these hard times. So we compiled a list of all the technology startups that have raised at least $25 million over the past two years, according to CrunchBase. The ~160 startups to stockpile that much capital recently are listed below.
Have we missed any relevant companies or funding rounds? Submit them to CrunchBase and we’ll update this list.
- Facebook - $455M
- Xiaonei - $430M
- ZeniMax - $310M
- Nanosolar - $300M
- OverSee - $210M
- OANDA - $200M
- Kayak - $196M
- VMware - $150M
- Plastic Logic - $150M
- eSolar - $140M
- Demand Media - $135M
- SulfurCell - $134M
- Modu - $120M
- United Mobile - $115M
- Zhaopin - $110M
- Ning - $104M
- Glam Media - $104M
- Specificmedia - $100M
- hulu - $100M
- SpinVox - $100M
- 9You - $100M
- Rearden Commerce - $100M
- Ausra - $97.8M
- CDNetworks - $96.5M
- Move Networks - $91.3M
- Spot Runner - $91M
- Tesla Motors - $85M
- Big Fish Games - $83.3M
- Realtime Worlds - $81M
- Adconion Media Group - $80M
- The Active Network - $80M
- HelioVolt - $77M
- Youku - $77M
- HowStuffWorks - $75M
- Datapipe - $75M
- Vantage Media - $70M
- A123Systems - $70M
- Boston Power - $68.6M
- Infinia - $66.5M
- LinkedIn - $65.8M
- Fisker - $65M
- Brightcove - $64.4M
- SilkRoad technology - $64M
- Coremetrics - $60M
- ReachLocal - $55.2M
- Veoh - $55M
- Federated Media - $54.5M
- Slacker - $53.5M
- RockYou - $52.5M
- 51.com - $51M
- GarageGames - $50M
- ChannelAdvisor - $50M
- Slide - $50M
- Revolution Money - $50M
- HealthCentral - $50M
- Blowtorch - $50M
- obopay - $49M
- Strands - $49M
- JumpTap - $48M
- GridPoint - $47M
- ice - $47M
- Greenplum - $46M
- Clear - $44.4M
- Jingle Networks - $43M
- freebase - $42.5M
- BitTorrent - $42M
- Avail Media - $42M
- Amobee - $42M
- Metaweb Technologies - $42M
- Pure Digital Technologies - $40M
- Teneros - $40M
- Enforta - $40M
- Trilliant - $40M
- Undertone Networks - $40M
- Turbine - $40M
- Tagworld - $40M
- SiBEAM - $40M
- SearchMe - $39.6M
- fabrik - $39.2M
- Zynga - $39M
- Turn - $38.5M
- LifeLock - $37.9M
- GreatCall - $36.6M
- Bestofmedia Group - $35M
- Segway - $35M
- hi5 - $35M
- Angie’s List - $35M
- Yodlee - $35M
- Sermo - $34.5M
- Lehigh Technologies - $34.5M
- TicketsNow - $34M
- Dailymotion - $34M
- meebo - $34M
- Clearspring - $33.5M
- XunLight - $33M
- Cuil - $33M
- Waterfront Media - $33M
- Dilithium Networks - $33M
- Seatwave - $33M
- iWeb Technologies - $32.6M
- Mzinga - $32.5M
- Vuze - $32M
- Vanu - $32M
- Pando - $31.9M
- Etsy - $31.3M
- BuzzNet - $31M
- Global Roaming - $30.5M
- NebuAd - $30.2M
- Metacafe - $30M
- 56.com - $30M
- IGA Worldwide - $30M
- Batanga - $30M
- VideoJug - $30M
- Zillow - $30M
- GodTube - $30M
- MobiTV - $30M
- Eyeblaster - $30M
- badoo - $30M
- Zazzle - $30M
- Viagogo - $30M
- MFG - $30M
- MOLI - $29.6M
- Automattic - $29.5M
- Intacct - $29M
- Genius - $29M
- RadioFrame - $28M
- LiveOps - $28M
- PGP Corporation - $27.3M
- Tideway - $27M
- Milestone Systems - $27M
- Palo Alto Networks - $27M
- BlackArrow - $26.8M
- ChoiceStream - $26.5M
- ContextWeb - $26M
- Solarflare - $26M
- Ruckus - $26M
- Quantcast - $25.7M
- Become - $25.5M
- Yelp - $25M
- Trulia - $25M
- Dash - $25M
- Zecco - $25M
- Visible World - $25M
- PharmaNation - $25M
- Meraki - $25M
- Nimbuzz - $25M
- Gemini - $25M
- DeviceVM - $25M
- Retail Convergence - $25M
- Splunk - $25M
- Mimeo - $25M
- Reunion - $25M
- Firefly Energy - $25M
- Optaros - $25M
- Koolanoo Group - $25M
- SpringSource - $25M
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