New adventure Film  : The Three Musketeers (2011) The Three Musketeers is a 2011 3D action-adventure film. The Three Musketeers is a 2011 3D action-adventure film. A steampunk-influenced reinterpretation of the novel of the same title by Alexandre Dumas, the film was released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on September 1, 2011, and is [Read More]

Tyrannosaurus Rex (extinct 65 million years ago) T. Rex an amazing extinct animal An introduction to T.Rex Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest land carnivores of all time, measuring up to 43.3 feet long, and 16.6 ft tall, with an estimated mass that goes up to 7 tons. Like other tyrannosaurids, Tyrannosaurus was a [Read More]

Rare Resource, The Dinosaurs World The term ‘dinosaur(dinosaurs)’ originates from the Greek words deino and sauros, meaning ‘terrible’ and ‘lizard’. The dinosaurs world: Sir Richard Owen invented the name ‘dinosaur’ in 1842, to describe an extinct group of terrestrial reptiles that lived during the [Read More]

Lakers head into uncertain new era without Jackson Jerry Buss made a rare visit to the Los Angeles Lakers’ training complex a week ago, driving up in a purple Rolls Royce with a personalized license plate boldly touting the 11 championships they’ve won during his ownership tenure. Buss had a few reassuring words with his [Read More]

Dodgers lack cash for May 31 payroll Major League Baseball believes the Los Angeles Dodgers do not have enough money to make their end of May payroll, a person familiar with the team’s finances told The Associated Press. The person spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity because MLB’s investigation of the team’s finances under owner [Read More]

NFL’s rookie pitch: divert 300M from 1st rounders The NFL wants to cut almost 60 percent of guaranteed pay for first-round draft picks, lock them in for five years and divert the savings to veterans’ salaries and benefits. More than $525 million went to first-rounders in guaranteed payments in 2010. The league wants to decrease [Read More]

Half a million die from smoking yearly in U.S. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Smoking causes half a million deaths each year in the U.S., killing slightly more men than women, new statistics show. The rates of smoking-related deaths in men were comparable to what’s been found in other recent analyses. The numbers for the [Read More]

Hulu Plus Will Hit 1 Million Subscribers Soon Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Says In Blog Post That Hulu’s Paid Service On Pace To Get 1 Million Sign-ups Looking At Doubling Their Revenue(hulu) Hulu is great and in my opinion, so is Hulu Plus. It’s a paid service on the video website that provides greater access [Read More]

Almost 12 Million Cancer Survivors Living in U.S., Report Shows Read to know Cancer affected in U.S., The number of cancer survivors in the United States climbed to 11.7 million in 2007, government health officials reported Thursday. That’s a dramatic increase since 1971, when there were 3 million survivors, and also since 2001, when there [Read More]

Whitehall Hotel Loan Faces Imminent Default, Realpoint Says A $478.5 million loan backed by 107 hotels owned by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Whitehall Street Global Real Estate Ltd. will be transferred to a special servicer because of imminent default, Realpoint LLC said. A representative for the borrower told the servicer that the loan likely [Read More]

Trio-Tech International Has Higher Earnings in Quarter Trio-Tech International had higher earnings and revenue for its second quarter of fiscal year 2011 compared to the same quarter a year ago due to stronger product sales and better performance in its testing services and real estate segments. For the fiscal quarter ending Dec. 31, the [Read More]

Zynga’s Reported $7-$10 Billion Valuation Surpasses That Of EA (Source: TechCrunch) Social gaming phenomenon Zynga is raising a new $250 million round of funding that values the company at between $7 – $9 billion according to, eh hem, sources. Then Bloomberg piggybacked on the news, naming names in terms of players in the talks, including [Read More]

CashStar Raises $5 Million To Send You Gift Cards On Facebook (Source: TechCrunch) Digital gifting platform CashStar has raised $5 million today in a Series B round lead by Passport Capital and Allen and Company. In the same space as BlackHawk, First Data, Gift Tango and Swag, CashStar offers SaaS and white-label solutions for big [Read More]

Android Media Player doubleTwist Hits 1 Million Active Users (Source: TechCrunch) Today, the Android media player doubleTwist reached a big milestone: 1 million active users between its mobile and desktop apps. We’ve been following the media player closely for over a year now, watching to see if it would find enough adoption to make it [Read More]

Scan Bar Codes To Search Consumer Reviews In Store With SearchReviews (Source: TechCrunch) In the same space as Buzzillions and Viewpoints, a new consumer review aggregator SearchReviews unveils itself today, allowing users to tailor searches to its over 40 million consumer reviews for over 4 million products from 1,011 retailers like ebay, [Read More]

Javelin Venture Partners Closes New $105 Million Fund (Source: TechCrunch) Early-stage VC Javelin Venture Partners has closed a second, $105 million fund. Javelin expects to use the money to fund around 20 companies over three years in seed and Series A rounds ranging from $500K to $3 million, and will reserve some of the funds [Read More]

Paperless Billing Service Doxo Raises $10 Million In Series B Funding (Source: TechCrunch) Paperless billing is one of those things that is slower to take hold than it should, but it just seems inevitable that is how we all will be receiving our bills sooner or later. One startup trying to speed along the paperless [Read More]

3 Months To The First Million Users, Just 6 Weeks To The Second Million For Instagram (Source: TechCrunch) Back in late December of last year,there was a huge milestone for photo-sharing app Instagram: a million users. It took them only three months for Instagram to hit the mark. That’s crazy when you consider it took [Read More]

Cooliris Gets $9.6 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Others, Releases New Version Of LiveShare Group Photo Sharing App (Source: TechCrunch) Multimedia browser plugin Cooliris, which lets you view photo and video content on the web in a more visually appealing manner (screencap above), has snagged $9.6 million in Series C financing from investors [Read More]

Maxroam teams up with Ryanair to offer free EU roaming to 78 million passengers (Source: TechCrunch) Maxroam, the mobile company out to disrupt mobile cell roaming, has signed a significant deal with Ryanair, Europe’s biggest low-cost airline which carries 78 million passengers annually. The deal is to create the world’s first free mobile [Read More]

Zipzoom Raises $2.2 Million To Help Connect Shoppers And Local Businesses (Source: TechCrunch) Exclusive – Zipzoom, an Ontario, Canada-based startup building an online marketplace where consumers can hook up with local and/or national businesses, has scored $2.2 million in angel funding from a number of private investors, we’ve learned. [Read More]

Evernote Rival SpringPad Springs Past 1 Million Users (Source: TechCrunch) Evernote rival Springpad has hit a milestone today—one million registered users. In January alone, it saw more than 250,000 new signups. So far, more than 10 million items have been saved by users. Springpad is a free web app that gives you many ways to [Read More]

Telogis Raises $2.9 Million More To Help Companies Manage Fleets, Reduce Emissions (Source: TechCrunch) Telogis, a location-based technology firm in Aliso Viejo, Calif. has raised another $2.9 million, according to a new SEC filing, to help businesses track and manage their fleets of vehicles, and workforce using GPS, mobile and web technology. [Read More]

With 80 Million Users, Pandora Files To Go Public (Source: TechCrunch) Music streaming service Pandora has filed to go public. It could end up raising as much as $100 million. Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan are co-managing the deal. The filing puts them on track for a mid-2011 IPO. Some financial stats from the SEC [Read More]

Blue Marble Energy Raises $1.3 Million More To Make Carbon-Neutral Fragrances, Flavors And Fuel (Source: TechCrunch) According to a new SEC filing, Blue Marble Energy attracted another $1.3 million investment — this time in a series A-1 convertible note deal — to create carbon neutral alternatives to petrochemicals. Blue Marble’s [Read More]

Ex-Envoy in Real Estate Swindle A former Hungarian ambassador in Moscow was arrested in his country over alleged real estate machinations in the Russian capital that have cost Hungary’s budget more than $30 million, The Associated Press reported. (real estate)Arpad Szekely, 53, who headed the mission from 2005 to 2008, was detained [Read More]

The Power of Velveeta: Shopkick Announces 3 Million Product Scans (Source: TechCrunch) Sleeper location-based service Shopkick is quietly amassing some impressive numbers. Its users are still small, at about 750,000 compared to Foursquare’s 5 million users, but those users are doing totally different and far more monetizable things. Ten percent [Read More]

Aldar’s 2010 Financial Results Reflect Severity of Abu Dhabi’s Real Estate Slowdown ABU DHABI, UAE) — Aldar Properties PJSC, Abu Dhabi’s property development, investment and Management Company, yesterday announced its full year results for 2010, reporting a loss of $370 million before impairments and fair value losses. The [Read More]

Larry Ellison acquires Porcupine Creek for $42.9 million Larry Ellison, the sixth-richest man in the world, has bought the 249-acre golf course estate of Edra Blixseth (Porcupine Creek) for $42.9 million, records filed in Riverside County show. Lisa Bessone of Christie’s International Real Estate on Tuesday confirmed the sale of Porcupine [Read More]

Sequoia Leads $15 Million Round In Wireless Networking Company Meraki (Source: TechCrunch) Meraki came out of a research project at MIT in 2006 and is now based in San Francisco. Meraki has grown rapidly from its modest roots. It now provides wireless networks controlled in the cloud used in offices, hotels, stores, and other large [Read More]

comScore: Facebook Keeps Gobbling People’s Time (Source: TechCrunch) With 600 million users, it’s no secret Facebook is dominating social networking. And recent comScore data only reinforces the social network’s staggering growth. For example, Facebook accounted for 10 percent of U.S. page views in 2010, while three out of every ten Internet [Read More]

Facebook Turns Seven: From Colleges To Cairo, You’ve Come A Long Way Baby (Source: TechCrunch) From founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room at Harvard to movie theaters across the US to the cover of TIME magazine to the fingertips of protestors in Cairo, Facebook has probably had more influence over our day to day lives than [Read More]

Tango Takes Face-To-Face Video Calling Beyond The iPhone With 8 Million Downloads (Source: TechCrunch) One of the best built-in features of the iPhone 4 is FaceTime, the video calling feature that lets you see who you are talking to by using the cameras on both phones. But it only works over WiFi and if both [Read More]

Search Underdog Blekko Sees Over 30M Searches In January, More Than 110K Slashtags Created Since Launch (Source: TechCrunch) Nowhere has the need for a more diverse search market been more apparent than this week’s revelation that Bing was cribbing Google’s notes. While Microsoft VP Harry Shum and Google’s Matt Cutts squabbled on a panel [Read More]

Blue Cross Blue Shield Most Expensive Health Insurance Blue Cross Blue Shield Most Expensive health insurance: The Sept. 23 deadline for compliance with several health reform benefit mandates brought negative impacts for several Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans. Most notably, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina agreed to refund $155.8 [Read More]

Blackstone Beats Estimates, Thanks to Real-Estate Arm Private-equity giant Blackstone Group LP’s fourth-quarter loss narrowed, and its adjusted profit topped analysts’ estimates, as the company’s real-estate operations racked up higher fees and revenues. The group is increasing investments in the real-estate sector, which [Read More]

Realogy Closes on $515 Million of Expected $650 Million of Second Lien Incremental Term Loans Realogy Immediately Reduces Debt by Approximately $70 Million; Apollo Management, L.P. Increases Its Investment in Realogy Through Purchases of Approximately $970 Million in Bonds Realogy Corporation, a global provider of real estate and relocation [Read More]

Google Tried To Buy Path For $100+ Million. Path Said No. (Source: TechCrunch) Yesterday we reported on Path’s new $8.5 million venture round, led by Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures. A stunning story about a startup that almost ran out of cash, a rebuffed $100+ million buyout offer from Google, and, finally, a new round [Read More]

Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures Lead $8p5 Million Round For Path (Source: TechCrunch) San Francisco-based Path, a mobile social network, has raised a Series A Round of funding. The $8.5 million round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. New investor Digital Garage Japan also joined the round, as did previous investor [Read More]

Deals Juggernaut Next Jump Hires a CFO, Looks To Add 100 Engineers In San Francisco (Source: TechCrunch) Groupon gets all the attention, but another deal juggernaut that should be on your radar is New York City-based Next Jump. The company runs group discount shopping programs for 90,000 corporations and organizations, and powers MasterCard’s [Read More]

Google Spent $5p2 Million On Lobbying In 2010; Up 29 Percent From 2009 (Source: TechCrunch) Google’s Q4 lobbying spend is in; and the search giant continues to spend more money on influencing policy and lawmakers than in previous years. In the fourth quarter of 2010, Google spent $1.24 million on lobbying, which is up from [Read More]

Electronics firm gains approval to enter China real estate market Taipei, Jan. 29 (CNA) Lite-On Technology Corp., a Taiwan-based electronics maker, has gained approval from the Investment Commission to invest US$50 million in China’s real estate market, the commission said Saturday. It was the largest China-bound property market investment [Read More]

Real Estate -Baring may invest 350cr in Bangalore realty co. BANGALORE: Baring Private Equity Partners India (BPEP), along with some of its international investors, is likely to invest about $75 million, or approximately Rs 350 crore, in the Bangalore-based Century Real Estate. Baring’s individual commitment to the deal is around $53 [Read More]

David Karp: “Tumblr Is Growing By A Quarter Billion Impressions Every Week” (Source: TechCrunch) Tumblr is growing like a weed, but “the last four or five months totally overshadow everything that came before it,” founder David Karp tells Chris Dixon in a taping today for TCTV (watch the video above). “We are growing by a [Read More]

All Electric Bike Makers, Zero Motorcycles, Raise Another $2.4 Million (Source: TechCrunch) A Santa Cruz-based electric motorcycle manufacturer, Zero Motorcycles, raised another $2.4 million in private equity, according to a new SEC filing. Earlier this month, California’s Scotts Valley Police Department started using the company’s Zero DS [Read More]

LinkedIn’s Largest Shareholders And How Much They Own (Source: TechCrunch) LinkedIn’s S-1 filing was released today, and the filing includes a wealth of information that we’ve never seen before. This includes sales, profit, revenue breakdown and more. One interesting data point shared in the filing is LinkedIn’s largest shareholders and [Read More]

LinkedIn Files For IPO; Revenue $161 Million For The First Nine Months Of 2010 (Source: TechCrunch) Professional social network LinkedIn has just submitted its S-1 filing with the SEC, indicating that it will file for a public offering. The maximum proposed total offering price is $175 million but this is just a placeholder amount. The [Read More]

Microsoft Sold 8 Million Kinects In 60 Days (Source: TechCrunch) Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. [Read More]

As MySpace Implodes, Tagged Doubles Staff And Gives Everyone A Raise (Source: TechCrunch) recently over heard someone saying of MySpace – “It used to be dirty, underground, seedy and successful. Now it’s prom at a private school.” The company is struggling to reinvent itself. But traffic continues to plunge. Comscore says they had 80 [Read More]