News: Business & Finance

• Another massive funding for thin film solar, with $104M to AVA Solar, a challenger to First Solar
  Chris Morrison
  Aug 28 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  It may not be as much as the colossal $300 million financing that Nanosolar finally disclosed yesterday — the biggest ever for a solar company — but another thin-film manufacturer, AVA...

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• Roundup: Veoh wins copyright case, Microsoft launches IE8 beta 2, how the iPhone 2.0.2 update fixes connection issues and more
  MG Siegler
  Aug 28 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Here’s the latest action: Veoh wins in court, YouTube claps — A federal judge ruled that Veoh was not infringing on copyrights by letting its users upload videos to the site. This is an...

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• Top Hollywood writer to create Facebook movie, admits “I honestly don’t know how this works” [Updated]
  Eric Eldon
  Aug 27 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Aaron Sorkin has created gripping movies like A Few Good Men, and television shows like The West Wing. Now, he’s going to write a story about the creation of Facebook. Sony’s bankrolling...

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• YouTube’s video revolution will be monetized (if the numbers hold)
  MG Siegler
  Aug 27 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  The online video sharing site YouTube is a great product with a rich community. To say it has a stranglehold on the online video space would be putting it lightly. Yet, as with most things in the...

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• FriendFeed adds new widget features; get ready for FriendFeed-powered live blogging on VentureBeat
  Eric Eldon
  Aug 27 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  I’ve already been enjoying the new version of “lifestreaming” site FriendFeed, launched on Monday, as it lets me easily follow select people and conversation rooms. But that...

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• The iPhone 2.0.2 security flaw — and its temporary fix
  MG Siegler
  Aug 27 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  A security flaw in the new iPhone 2.0.2 software was uncovered last night by a MacRumors forum user. To expose the flaw you must have your iPhone password protected. When you turn on the phone and...

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• Mozilla Labs’ Aza Raskin talks about the big picture for Ubiquity
  Anthony Ha
  Aug 27 2008
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  Mozilla, the company behind the popular Firefox browser, just announced a very cool project that’s in the early stages of development — Ubiquity, a tool that allows users to access...

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• CONFIRMED: Aaron Sorkin writing The Facebook Movie
  Jordan Golson
  Aug 27 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin is working on an unnamed Facebook Movie project with Scott Rudin and Sony. New York Magazine confirmed this from producer Scott Rudin, who says that the Sorkin on...

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• Sports site The Active Network raises $80 million, for more acquisitions
  Eric Eldon
  Aug 27 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  The Active Network, a company that offers sports community sites like Active.com, has raised an $80 million fifth round of funding, led by existing investor and strategic partner ESPN, with...

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• FriendFeed working on a new RSS supplement to speed up data retrieval
  MG Siegler
  Aug 27 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  It looks like the rapid fire site updates are about to start again for the social content conversation site FriendFeed. Just a few days after the launch of its new “beta” area, FriendFeed...

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