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venturebeat: DEMO announces $1 million media prize: Here’s the latest reason why entrepreneurs should consider launchin.. http://tinyurl.com/nnkn

venturebeat: New Twine interface lets users visualize shared bookmarks: Social bookmarking service Twine attracted a lot of a.. http://tinyurl.com/lw2tbf

venturebeat: Apple-exec-turned-VC sees big opportunity in mobile infrastructure: Bob Borchers, who led Apple’s marketin.. http://tinyurl.com/mokd

venturebeat: Cleantech bounces back in Q2 with $1.2B: The big story a couple months ago was how cleantech investing had falle.. http://tinyurl.com/knskjx

venturebeat: China’s crackdown on virtual goods transactions could ripple through the game economy: China’s new crackdo.. http://tinyurl.com/ll

venturebeat: Inflated laptop battery claims may lead to class action lawsuit: A couple of weeks ago, Advanced Micro Devices b.. http://tinyurl.com/lp9yk2

venturebeat: Ooma raises $14M more amid tough round: Ooma, the much-hyped company that sells an expensive VoIP box ($249) tha.. http://tinyurl.com/lx2uzf

venturebeat: Roundup: Dell’s iPhone-sized gadget, Malcolm Gladwell vs. Chris Anderson, books on smartphones: Dell engineers a.. http://tinyurl.com/m3t2

venturebeat: GridIron taps Hollywood visual artist for new workflow software: Mark Coleran has created the user interfaces fo.. http://tinyurl.com/nnhkgj

venturebeat: Rumors surface of a PlayStation cell phone: Sony Ericsson is reportedly working on a phone that combines PlaySta.. http://tinyurl.com/mme5ad

venturebeat: Sony names a deputy chief for its games business: Sony named Kunimasa Suzuki, a veteran of its Vaio computer bus.. http://tinyurl.com/l9bu2t

venturebeat: Hollywood’s appetite for game-based movies continues with Uncharted film: The appetite for game-based movies isn.. http://tinyurl.com/mu5q

venturebeat: Sense Networks gets $6M in hotly contested deal for “tribe” advertising: Sense Networks, a company that can trac.. http://tinyurl.com/lq

venturebeat: With big cuts, now what for MySpace’s international efforts?: MySpace plans to lay off around 300 of its 450 int.. http://tinyurl.com/mesj

venturebeat: Silver Spring signs deal to make Sacramento meters smart: Silver Spring Networks, one of the major players in th.. http://tinyurl.com/lmcmrz

venturebeat: Conduit toolbars to get more content: For those of you who love browser toolbars, expect more options soon. Cond.. http://tinyurl.com/nfzkxe

venturebeat: With big cuts, now what for MySpace’s international efforts?: MySpace plans to lay off around 300 of its 450 int.. http://tinyurl.com/mesj

Government-backed stimulus packages are expected to give a major boost to cleantech companies, supposedly starting in September...

Spinvox, a voice-recognition startup based in London, has landed a deal with Spanish mobile operator Telefonica to provide the mobile giant with voice-to-text technology...

Google scientists announced a new technology today that might bring big improvements to how Google processes and understands images. For now, it’s limited to images of landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge and the Eiffel Tower, but conceptually, at least, its promise is much broader...

Government-backed stimulus packages are expected to give a major boost to cleantech companies, supposedly starting in September...

EcoDog, maker of a so-called “watchdog” device that lets consumers patrol their home energy use, is the latest in a series of startups rolling out simple household energy management systems — with Tendril and Trilliant perhaps the most well known...

The game industry took notice yesterday when John Pleasants left the No. 2 job at Electronic Arts to join a small social gaming startup, Playdom...

Exar, a Fremont, Calif.-based maker of integrated circuits, has acquired Galazar, a Canadian semiconductor company that has fallen on hard times even before the economic downturn. No financial terms have been released, but Exar will be operated as a full subsidiary...

EcoDog, maker of a so-called “watchdog” device that lets consumers patrol their home energy use, is the latest in a series of startups rolling out simple household energy management systems — with Tendril and Trilliant perhaps the most well known...