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Andreessen Horowitz has become the first venture firm to collect all four of the highest-valued (and most hyped?) privately held social-media companies around.

After two rough years, health-care venture capitalists are adapting to deal with what could be more tough times ahead.

In this morning's Web roundup, a start-up gets $1 million in seed funding to let consumers rate the employee who served them. Meanwhile sales-lead generation comany gets a vote of confidence from Institutional Venture Partners. And the Winklevoss twins have some advice for Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: grow up!

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During a brief phone chat this evening following fiscal Q2 results, Cisco Systems (CSCO) CEO John Chambers defended his company's growth prospects and margin ability, while expanding upon what would seem to be the question of the hour, namely, the prospect that budget tightening in state and local governments is [...]

Cisco Systems (CSCO)CEO John Cambers said the company sees revenue rising in the current quarter by 4% to 6% versus the prior-year quarter, and revenue in Q4 rising by 8% to 11%. That would put this quarter's revenue at $10.78 billion to $10.99 billion, which at the midpoint of $10.89 billion, [...]

Shares of Activision-Blizzard (ATVI) are down 69 cents, or 6%, at $11 after the company reported Q4 revenue and earnings per share ahead of expectations, raised its dividend, and set a new $1.5 billion share repurchase program, but forecast the current quarter and the year below estimates as it said [...]

Cisco Systems (CSCO) this evening reported fiscal Q2 results ahead of analysts' estimates, but shares traded down following the results. Q2 revenue rose 6%, year over year, to $10.4 billion, with non-GAAP EPS of 37 cents, beating the averageestimate of $10.24 billion in revenue and 35 cents per share in earnings. Cisco's [...]

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