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New technologies are creating new business opportunities on the Internet, on mobile phones, in consumer products, and in information services. At the same time, many of these technologies have radically reduced the costs associated with launching a new venture. While birthing a company is easier, succeeding is as difficult as ever.
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* Streamcast, makers of Morpheus have sued eBay, claiming that Skype is using their technology. Andy had this information way way back, but there have been some amendments to the suit. It all about squeezing out some dollars from eBay. Nothing more, nothing less.
* Sequoia investments - Plaxo and Jajah are playing nice with each [...]

Gizmo Project, a soft phone developed by Michael Robertson’s SIPphone has been upgraded to what else: version 2.0. And it is truly 2.0, and has some major enhancements. (Michael’s Thoughts can be read here.)
One of the biggest improvements is that it now works with Asterisk, an open source PBX software that is just growing in [...]

Update: Vonage Holdings has sold 31,250,000 shares of common stock at a price of $17.00 per share and has started trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “VG.”
That works out to about $531 million in funding raised from the markets. Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, and UBS were the joint book-runners. The stock [...]

Business 2.0 has an excellent feature by Carlo Longino on the mobile future, and how mobile technologies are going to get even more enmeshed in our lives.
Phones that get you into concerts, tell co-workers not to call now - or even display which friends are at a show. The next phase of the mobile revolution [...]

Vonage, the company that introduced a haunting jingle and low cost voice calls over the Internet to the masses is all set to go public. The company is likely to start trading tomorrow, according to news reports, despite some last minute doubts about its long term viability. The plan is to sell 31.25 million shares [...]