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"Slide.com claims to be the largest widget-maker in the world, reaching over 117 million unique viewers every month, according to Comscore. It lets people make slideshows of their photos and embed them in the form of "widgets" into Myspace and other social networks...

"Alternative search startup Quintura Inc. has secured a Series A round of nearly $5 million from Mangrove Capital Partners, to scale up and build out its meaning-based search engine... The platform was developed by several Russian technologists and aims to make search more intuitive."
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Alexander Stepanov, inventor of the C++ Standard Template Library and a renowned engineer and scientist in the world of programming, is working on a new book about programming and looking for your opinion. Press here for more details.

"People in places like the Valley seem to take availability of angel and venture capital for granted, but every tech economy has a jump-start before it becomes self-sustaining." Russian government has recently set up a $600 million (RUB 15 billion to be exact) fund of venture funds and set aggressive goals to kick start its high tech sector.
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Ultra Motor, a company that won the second prize at SVOD 2006 Conference, was nominated as Technology Pioneer for 2007 at the World Economic Forum in Davos. For an interview of Joe Bowman, UltraMotor's CEO, click here.