Neowin News Feed for: Funding

WordPress begins to accept Bitcoins as a currency

Paul Ferson — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:50:38 +0000

WordPress has added functionality today, allowing bloggers across the world to pay using the digital Bitcoin currency while side-stepping issues such as PayPal being unavailable or limited. Read more...

GitHub gains $100 million in funding

Paul Ferson — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:48:40 +0100

GitHub has made the decision to switch to outside funding, gaining a cool hundred million dollars from investors to get it started on its new path. Read more...

Microsoft invests in Pirate Pay, wants to stop BitTorrent traffic

Brad Sams — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:01:49 +0100

Microsoft has invested in a Russian company that hopes to disrupt your next BitTorrent download. The service attempts to flood the connections and has already been used to stop movie downloads. Read more...

Dropbox passes 45m users and receives $257.2m in funding

Paul Ferson — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:05:29 +0100

The file-upload service Dropbox has confirmed that it has passed two milestones, with more than 45,000,000 users of the service, and a massive $250,000,000 bonus in funding. Read more...

EU Searches for Galileo Funding Source

Sagittarius — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:33:39 +0100

" alt="" />

The European Union will decide this week where the €2.4bn shortfall in funding for the Galileo GPS satellite system will come from. A meeting on September 19th is expected to suggest that the cost is... Read more...

Scrybe Gets Venture Funding from Adobe, LMKR

saqibakhtar — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:04:16 +0100

" alt="" />

Scrybe, the online/offline calendar and organizer, has closed their series A round of financing from Adobe Systems Incorporated and LMKR. You'll probably recognize the company from the somewhat viral product demo that swept the blogosphere... Read more...

Joost Raises $45 Million in Funding

Slimy — Thu, 10 May 2007 23:39:40 +0100

" alt="" />

Internet-based TV service Joost said it has raised $45 million from five investors: CBS Corporation, Viacom Incoporated, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures (a European venture capital firm) and Li Ka-shing (chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Limited and... Read more...

Sony Funding 40 Download Titles for PS3

Joe Cashman — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:07:54 +0000

" alt="" />

Sony are funding around 40 titles for the PS3, which will be distributed via it's e-Distribution Initiative (EDI), the Playstation's equivalent to Xbox Live arcade. Speaking to Gamesindustry.biz Phil Harrison said "a call to action... Read more...

Napster founder basks in funding, label support

malebolgia — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:45:15 +0000

" alt="" />

With $10 million in venture funding and the backing of at least one major record label, Napster founder Shawn Fanning will officially unveil his new peer-to-peer music company on Monday. As previously... Read more...

Infinium Labs seeking more funding to launch Phantom

malebolgia — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:27:23 +0000

" alt="" />

A new regulatory filing from Florida-based firm Infinium Labs has revealed that the company needs to find fresh funding of around $11.5 million if it is to launch its Phantom game service next year as... Read more...

Firefox smashes funding target

malebolgia — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:10:19 +0100

" alt="" />

Firefox advocates' call for donations to pay for an advertisement in The New York Times has more than reached its target, only three days into the campaign. The campaign, run by Spread... Read more...

Oracle Adds More Funding For PeopleSoft Push

configure — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:19:00 +0000

" alt="" />

Oracle has raised another $1.5 billion to fund its $7.5 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Oracle said it has negotiated the $1.5 billion... Read more...

DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding

configure — Fri, 18 Apr 2003 02:36:01 +0100

" alt="" />

The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons. The project's leader, Theo... Read more...

Linux Start-up Secures $10 mil in funding

Keldyn — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:37:25 +0000

" alt="" />

Sistina Software, a start-up with software to help numerous Linux servers collectively share a single set of data, has obtained $10 million in venture funding, the company said Monday. The Minneapolis-based company's... Read more...

Bush Ramps Up Cybersecurity Research Funding

configure — Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:14:15 +0000

" alt="" />

President Bush signed into law a measure that will almost quadruple federal spending by 2007 on computer security research, reflecting the heightened interest Washington has taken in the issue over the past year. ... Read more...

Dialpad files for bankruptcy, gets new funding

configure — Tue, 25 Dec 2001 12:23:00 +0000

" alt="" />

Dialpad Communications Inc., a provider of voice over IP (VoIP) services, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday but said it has received new funding from one of its original investors to finance its reorganization.... Read more...