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Textbook rental site Chegg.com may be raising tremendous amounts of funding, but competitor BookRenter isn't sitting still - it just announced a $6 million first round. That number is dwarfed by the $84.2 million Chegg has raised (not...

In this article: Amazon, Adams Capital Management, Storm Ventures, Cloud computing, Stanford University, Twitter, and San Francisco

Loic Le Meur, founder and chief executive of Seesmic, demonstrated a new Windows version of Seesmic's desktop console for managing your alerts and accounts in Twitter and Facebook today at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in...

In this article: Seesmic, Twitter, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, Linux, Silverlight, and Cloud computing

Video startup Vidly is holding true to its promise to expand beyond Twitter with a new tool called Vidly Express, an easy way to add video comments to any blog. The San Francisco company says publishers just add some code to their site,...

In this article: Chamillionaire, Twitter, Facebook, San Francisco, Cloud computing, Seesmic, and Stanford University

Plato's Forms, a San Francisco startup that describes itself as "a professional messaging platform focused on the problem of the rapid proliferation of misinformation in media," just announced raising a $545,000 seed round. The company was...

In this article: Plato, San Francisco, Zelkova Ventures, Cloud computing, Stanford University, and Tesla Motors

AdMob, the mobile ad network that Google plans to acquire for $750 million, announced that it's supporting a new kind of iPhone ad - interactive video. This is the first interactive video ad unit for iPhones, AdMob says. Mainly, the new...

In this article: AdMob, Iphone, Cloud computing, Stanford University, Twitter, Google, and San Francisco

LinkedIn aims to be an even more central part of your professional identity, by expanding its platform today with the site developer.linkedin.com. The Mountain View, Calif.-based professional networking site already offers a platform for...

In this article: LinkedIn, Twitter, Posterous, TweetDeck, Oauth, Cloud computing, and Stanford University

Here's our rundown of the week's business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Microsoft's Ray Ozzie: Apps don't make your phone special - "It's not the applications available on the...

In this article: Microsoft, Google, Ray Ozzie, Al Gore, Twitter, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Chrome OS, and Modern Warfare 2

There are tons of karaoke applications for the iPhone, but a startup called Khu.sh is introducing a twist on the concept, "reverse karaoke," to the App Store. There have been other reverse karaoke products, most notably Microsoft...

In this article: Iphone, Twitter, T-Pain, Shotput Ventures, Smule, Cloud computing, Auto Tune, Itunes, and Stanford University

Adobe just announced announcing a bunch of upgrades to Acrobat.com, its suite of web collaboration applications. The most important: It's releasing an application for the iPhone and BlackBerry. Mobile support has been a big missing piece...

In this article: Adobe, Cloud computing, Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Stanford University, and Iphone

Brizzly, an application for managing messages in Twitter and Facebook, expanded its beta test today - now you don't need an invite code, so anyone can use it. The application was created by San Francisco-based Thing Labs, and includes...

In this article: Twitter, Facebook, Thing Labs, San Francisco, Cloud computing, Google Translate, FriendFeed, and Google Reader