eBay founder Omidyar leads $5.5M for D.light’s solar lanterns | VentureBeat (June 24, 2010 Camille Ricketts) For example, the network invested in social news aggregator Digg, Second Life-maker Linden Lab, group-building site Meetup, and Ev…

A VC: A Big Victory For User Generated Content (Jun 24, 2010 Fred Wilson) Yesterday, Judge Louis Stanton of the Southern District Court here in NYC issued his opinion in the long standing legal battle between YouTube and Viacom. It was the…

AOL Sells DMS Insights, Keeps Piling Up Cash (Jun. 24, 2010, 10:05 AM) Tumblr was supposed to rival Twitter. It hasn't happened.But if AOL were to buy it, it wouldn't just be getting a blog platform, it'd be buying the ability to advertise…

Yes, The IPO Market Stinks - Is It Time To Move On? - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ (June 23, 2010, 7:07 PM ET Scott Austin) “What the venture industry needs to do is transition to the new reality,” said Jason Andris, managing director of…