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Early Groupon Backer NEA Dishes Out $226 Million in Deal Site's Stock
2013-09-19 00:11:05| IT Services - Topix.net
New Enterprise Associates, a venture firm that was one of Groupon's earliest investors, distributed 20 million shares of Groupon common stock to its general partners and its own investors on Friday, according to a document filed with the SEC on Tuesday.
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Canonical lands first enterprise backer for Ubuntu Edge, just 49 to go
2013-08-08 21:40:46| InfoWorld: Top News
Canoncial has generated plenty of buzz with its $32 million crowdsourcing effort to build 40,000 of its Ubuntu
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United Kingdom: High Street store Lush is main financial backer of Frack Off
2013-08-03 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Lush, which has 105 stores in the UK and Ireland, has given 20,000 in charitable donations to the protest group behind this week's demonstration against test drilling in Balcombe, West Sussex. The company has such close links to Frack Off that four of Lush's five-strong campaigns team have been given time off work to join the protest in Balcombe. One of them, Lush's head of global campaigns Tamsin Omond, was arrested on Thursday for chaining herself to a fire engine used to block the entrance...
Kenneth G. Langone, Controversial NYU Trustee and Citizens United Provocateur, Is Major Lhota Backer
2013-06-25 12:31:47| IT Services - Topix.net
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court decided that corporations were people, too.
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Wind Mobile backer withdraws application to get control
2013-06-19 19:12:24| Telecom - Topix.net
Orascom Telecom Holding says it's withdrawing an application to acquire control of Wind Mobile Canada, one of the smaller wireless carriers that's seeking to grow into a stronger rival for the country's three main cellphone companies.
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