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News Burst: Paul Allen to invest $54m (£33m) in ZDTV

The investment, which will make Vulcan Ventures a one-third partner in ZDTV, is part of the company... Read more

17 November, 1998 by Maria Seminerio

Barnesandnoble invests in MightyWords publisher

...part of a larger $36 million venture capital round. Other investors include Vulcan Ventures Inc. MightyWords had been a subsidiary of FatBrain.com, an online... Read more

7 June, 2000 by Margaret Kane

Oxygen woos women, online and off

The Oprah-backed online network will launch a cable channel next week Read more

1 February, 2000 by Margaret Kane

NEC device combines notebook with PDA

...of start-ups are also gearing up to sell pocket-size computers. Vulcan Ventures, the investment group headed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is... Read more

12 May, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

Vulcan gets a grip on mini-PCs

Vulcan Ventures wants to take the lap out of laptops. The investment company... Read more

9 January, 2003 by David Becker

Can a chip help computers see in 3D?

...it's easy, but computationally it's not." Tyzx is backed by Vulcan Ventures, the investment firm of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It has... Read more

3 July, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Microsoft co-founder hits investment slump

...and moneymaking abilities of Allen, who started Seattle-based venture capital firm Vulcan Ventures and ranked as one of the four richest people in the... Read more

13 May, 2002 by Dawn Kawamoto

Tech billionaires a little less wealthy

...now chairman of cable company Charter Communications and has a VC firm, Vulcan Ventures. Warren Buffett, who placed second in the survey, worked the tech... Read more

1 March, 2002 by Tiffany Kary

CES: Name change and first product for Rearden Steel

New products include the Moxi MC, a set-top box design that includes a modem, hard drive and Firewire ports and runs on a modified Linux operating system Read more

7 January, 2002 by Richard Shim

WebTV founder's next act unfolding

...satellite company EchoStar; and networking titan Cisco Systems. Other investors include Mayfield, Vulcan Ventures, The Barksdale Group, The Washington Post Company and Macromedia Ventures. Great... Read more

2 January, 2002 by Richard Shim

The Day Ahead: Priceline shareholders suffer

Priceline couldn't insulate investors from WebHouse woes Read more

6 October, 2000 by Larry Dignan

A Year Ago: Now you can bargain for your groceries

...round of financing from investors, including Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, Wit Capital, Goldman Sachs and Walker Digital (Priceline's parent company... Read more

22 September, 2000 by Margaret Kane

A Year Ago: Yahoo! launches digital music site

...thanks to big-name investors like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures and Intel. Liquid Audio (liquidaudio.com) said Yahoo! Digital users would... Read more

24 August, 2000 by ZDNet

The Day Ahead: Diversification pays off for Go2Net

...slice of TV advertising budgets through its partnership with Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures' properties such as Charter Communications, a cable company. By 2004, industry... Read more

18 July, 2000 by Larry Dignan

The Day Ahead: 'Band-Aid financing' won't work for some dot-coms

...Acqua Wellington North America Equities Fund. The company's major investors -- including Vulcan Ventures -- handed over $30m. Bottom line: Competition is still stiff for Value... Read more

17 May, 2000 by Larry Dignan

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