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Top Firms for Early Stage Companies No. Deals in 2007* VC Location 19 Maryland Technology Development Corporation Columbia, MD 16 Draper Fisher Jurvetson Menlo Park, CA 15 Ben Franklin Technology Partners Southeastern PA Philadelphia, PA 15 Innovation Works, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA 14 New Enterprise Associates Baltimore, MD 13 Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern PA Bethlehem, PA 13 First Round Capital West Conshohocken, PA 12 Mohr Davidow Ventures Menlo Park, CA 11 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Menlo Park, CA 10 Domain Associates LLC Princeton, NJ 10 General Catalyst Partners Cambridge, MA 10 Intel Capital Santa Clara, CA 10 Village Ventures Williamstown, MA 9 InterWest Partners Menlo Park, CA 9 Labrador Ventures Palo Alto, CA 9 Polaris ...

President Barack Obama may need more Champagne, because things are not so rosy for majority of Americans. Photo Credit: Redif . 2 Nov 2011 21:31 Africa/Lagos U.S. Ranks 10th In Global Prosperity Index - Falls Behind China In Economic Rankings U.S. scores high on measures of public health and entrepreneurial environment but falls behind China in economic rankings LONDON, November 2, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- A new study ranks the U.S. 10th out of 110 countries in a worldwide assessment of wealth and quality of life. Norway, Denmark, and Australia lead the rankings. China improved on economic indicators - moving ahead of the U.S. for the first time - and places 52nd overall. The Legatum Prosperity Index(TM) ( http://www.prosperity.com) provides the world's only global assessment of national prosperity based on both wealth and well-being. The Index assesses 110 countries (accounting for over 93% of the world's population and 97% of the world's GDP) and ranks them based on their perf...

I have decided to remind the stakeholders in all the oil producing countries and consumers of the following important report, because most of them missed it. 10 Jan 2008 15:26 Africa/Lagos Global Oil Supply Challenges Will Drive Crude Prices to US$150: CIBC World Markets LONDON, January 10/PRNewswire/ -- - Modest Russian Production Growth to be Gobbled up by Domestic Demand CIBC (CM: TSX; NYSE) - Consumers should brace for a 50 per cent jump in oil prices in the near future as global oil supply will increasingly have trouble keeping pace with demand, forecasts a new energy report from CIBC World Markets. The report predicts that surging demand in developing economies combined with accelerated depletion of existing supply and widespread delays in getting new oil fields up and running will see the global supply of oil fall as much as eight million barrels a day below International Energy Agency estimates by 2012. "Those projections ignore two fundamental forces that have, in recent ...