First Round Capital Widget; New Investments

First Round Capital now has a downloadable widget showing all the jobs (or most, anyway) available at its portfolio companies, via VentureLoop and Widgetbox.
Also, two financing rounds were announced today in which First Round participated:

OpenX Aims to Hold Off Google, Takes $10.4M Third Round (GigaOM)

Plastic Jungle Scores $4.8 million For Gift Card Marketplace (TechCrunch)

RJMetrics: Business Intelligence Rap Video

Daily Links 5/26/09: Ben Franklin Invests in 8 Area Companies

Ben Franklin Technology Partners OKs Click Equations, other investments (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Evidentiary Hearing Commences in ITC Investigation of Nokia's Infringement of InterDigital 3G Patents (Business Wire)

Halcyon Revs Up U.S. Channel Effort (IT Jungle)

QVC HD: Now 100% High-Def
Claims First Home-Shopping Channel To Offer Native HD Service (Multichannel News)

SAP Braces For Change
New sole-CEO Leo Apotheker wants the enterprise-software powerhouse to be more responsive to customers. (Information Week)

SAP Introduces Software Package to Help Public Sector Customers Optimize Economic Stimulus Funds (PR Newswire)

Tech Employment Shrinks for Fifth Straight Month (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

70% DOCSIS 3.0 Market Share & the 200MB Home (Media Experiences 2 Go)

Higher Ed Wakes Up to Twitter
(Library Journal)

Moggle, Inc. Announces Agreement With FX Labs
(Business Wire)

EBillme launches online payments option for teens (Finextra)

Synygy Announces Availability of the Mobile Edition of SYNYGY PORTAL for Use with iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile Devices (Business Wire)




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