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Thoof, the personalized news site founded by Revver founder Ian Clarke and backed by AV, and which we covered here in a Q&A Wednesday , is rumored to be for sale, according to Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOm in a piece published on Thursday.   Stacey did some investigative reporting, and has found that Alan Ren, [...]

On Friday afternoon, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Financial released data showing that venture funding across the US was up, with 963 companies raising over $7 billion in the fourth quarter.  Most interestingly, out of the top 10 deals in 2007, only 3 were in California (local company Heliovolt raised either [...]