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Boston's venture capitalists are stepping up efforts to get close to young entrepreneurs and to step out of the shadow of Silicon Valley.

In this morning's Web roundup, despite a not-so-great exit market in the first quarter, VCs are hopeful about the rest of the year. Kleiner Perkins finds another energy deal. And a veteran VC urges his colleagues to embrace angels.

Businesses are increasingly interested in blogging and social networking software from companies like Jive Software to help manage relationships with their customers and suppliers

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Bloomberg's Mark Lee and Janet Ong this afternoon provide an overview of a week that has seen a 22% drop in Acer's (TW.2353) stock price and the departure of CEO Gianfranco Lanci yesterday. Acer shares traded in Taiwan fell another 5% today to 57.10 New Taiwan dollars. The rout started Monday, following Acer's disclosure a [...]

ComScore this afternoon released data for the average share of cellular subscribers during the three months ending in February, showing an outsized gain for Apple (AAPL) among devices and gains for both Apple and Google (GOOG) in terms of operating system platform share. Among 234 million U.S. consumers aged 13 and older using mobile devices, [...]

Rich Greenfield of BTIG Research today, observing Time-Warner Cable's (TWC) decision to drop some content providers yesterday from its app for Apple's (AAPL) iPad, while adding 17 channels today, highlights how the waters are rising around content companies, even as they seem to fumble the future, in his view. Time-Warner Cable yesterday said they would [...]

Dale Ford, semiconductor market analyst with IHS iSuppli, today writes that semiconductor industry revenue worldwide declined in Q4 of last year for the first time following six quarters of quarter-on-quarter growth, to $77.2 billion, down 3.7% from $80.1 billion in Q3. Nevertheless, revenue was still up 12% from Q4 of 2009. And the decline was [...]

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