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HTML5 Start-Up Crocodoc Signs Up Dropbox, LinkedIn and SAP as Paying Customers

Liz Gannes in Enterprise on May 1 at 8:00 am PT

Crocodoc, a start-up that quickly converts PDFs and Office documents to HTML5, already has an impressive list of customers: Dropbox, LinkedIn, SAP, Yammer and Edomodo.

The Three Ventureers: Andreessen Horowitz Joining Conway and Milner in Y Combinator Start Fund

Kara Swisher in News on October 14, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT

The high-profile venture firm is in for $50,000 per start-up. What cash crunch?

What Would T-Mobile Do With $3 Billion? We May Be About to Find Out.

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on August 31, 2011 at 3:26 pm PT

Three billion dollars is what T-Mobile would collect as a break-up fee, assuming its merger with AT&T is not approved. We heard from the DOJ today. The FCC is also sounding less than enthusiastic.

Smartling, a Language Translation Engine for the Web, Raises $10 Million

Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 27, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Ever thought that translation on the Web could be better? You’re not alone. Smartling, a New York-based start-up, aims to break down the Web’s language barriers.

Scribd Jumps From Publishing to Reading With Float App

Liz Gannes in Social on July 19, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Scribd today unveils a major initiative called Float. It’s extending Scribd’s technology for uploading and accessing PDFs into something potentially much broader: Reading.

visual.ly Wants to Bring Nifty Charts and Graphs to the Rest of Us

Liz Gannes in Social on July 13, 2011 at 5:15 am PT

Some of the folks behind the Mint blog are launching an infographic community site and will soon offer prosumer Web-based infographic creation tools.

Redpoint's Geoff Yang Prefers Early-Stage Risk to Late-Stage Valuations (Video)

Liz Gannes in Social on February 1, 2011 at 5:32 am PT

Redpoint Ventures founding partner Geoff Yang told us in a video interview he wants to invest in social media, gaming and digital living-room start-ups.

Scribd Raises $13M More for Web Docs

Liz Gannes in Social on January 18, 2011 at 12:02 pm PT

Scribd has raised $13 million in a Series C funding led by MLC Investments of Australia and SVB Capital, and including previous investors Redpoint Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group.

Night-Table Reading: The FCC's Net Neutrality Rules In Full

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 23, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT

It’s now been two days since the Federal Communications Commission voted to pass its controversial network neutrality rules, and the consensus is clear–no one is terribly happy. Now we have a full text of the actual rules–the 194-page document that lawyers, lawmakers and lobbyists will be combing through in the coming weeks and months.

The Net Neutrality Vote: Primary Documents

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 21, 2010 at 2:36 pm PT

In case you’ve not yet had your fill of reading about today’s net neutrality vote by the FCC, here’s a sampling of primary documents of today’s events in Washington.