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Indian Premier League cricket match starts today and great news for cricket fans in internet, where they refresh (Auto refresh) every few minutes to view the latest score  by balls.

YouTube (Google) joins with DLF IPL to broadcast IPL 2010 matches live on YoTube. If you visit YouTube India website you can see colorful animated advertisements about IPL 2010 live on YouTube.

All the 60 matches will be live from today March 12 – April 25. The official broadband sponsor Airtel announced to provide 2 Mbps speed to watch IPL 2010 matches.

Airtel announcement

"Airtel creates Internet coup ! As a special gift, all Airtel Broadband users will be automatically upgraded to 2Mbps speed to enjoy uninterrupted viewing of LIVE cricket on www.youtube.com/ipl from 12th March to 25th April ."

Watch IPL 2010 matches live on YouTube.Com/IPL

Note : Live web cast may get delay for 5 minutes in India

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Private Sale Gmbh, the company operating the private shopping community site brand4friends, acquired TripHunter.de, a private online travel club.

The Berlin-based company, owned by a consortium that includes Mangrove Capital Partners is providing a supposedly good exit for the investors in the 2-years-old travel community, which include famous german business angels Lukasz Gadowski and  Oliver Jung BVP Berlin Venture Partners and the swiss Redalpine Venture Partners.

Private Sale also invested a "multi million" amount into UK's Secret Sale, as reported by TechCrunch in February.

Brands4friends.de made €80 million in sales in 2009, a three-fold increase on the year before, and it ranks as the biggest online shopping club in Germany and Austria, the two markets where it already operates. It became profitable within two years of its launch in 2007 and has 2.5 million members and currently stocks products from around 400 fashion brands.

This is not so new, but it has been overlooked by the media, while I think it's a very important event in the european venture capital landscape.

BaltCap has been around since 1995 and has managed four private equity and venture capital funds with total capital of €130m.

In January the closed a new €30M fund that will consist of €20m provided by EIF managed JEREMIE Holding Fund and €10m raised from local private investors, including Parex Asset Management, Hipo Fondi, LKB Krajfondi, Pirmais Slegtais Pensiju Fonds and high net worth individuals.

The fund will provide start-up and expansion financing to companies with established operations and growth potential taking equity stakes of between €300,000 and €3m, with the aim to build a portfolio of 15 to 20 investments.

Plus notably, BaltCap is the first venture capital fund to successfully complete private fund raising under the European Investment Funds managed JEREMIE initiatives in Europe, and the first structured private equity fund to be raised in the Baltics since the economic crisis hit the region.

Today I want to share with you one of the best initiatives regarding european entrepreneurship that I've seen in a long time.

Stanford University has in fact developed an awesome seminar series about european entrepreneurship and innovation. The program, called "European Entrepreneurship & Innovation Thought Leaders Seminar" is directed by Burton Lee, a visionary professor and general vc and technology startups expert.

It is a weekly lecture series and is offered each Monday afternoon (4:15-5:30pm) in Skilling Auditorium on the Stanford Engineering campus. It's open to the public at no charge and all the videos are online for everyone to watch. (Here is the info required to watch the video).

Some of this year's topics included:"New Venture Funds in Europe", "French and Irish Entrepreneurs in Software & Cleantech", "Nordic Entrepreneurs and Venture Spinouts", "Entrepreneurs & Venture Investors in Spanish Regions", "Venture Capital and Technology Outsourcing in Eastern Europe" and "Europe in the Global Entrepreneurship Scene".

I strongly suggest you watch the videos of some of these, there's some inspiring stuff to take out from them. Also take some time tomorrow and join in to watch the "Venture Capital and Social Media Startups in Spain and Southeast Europe" lecture which will feature Nico Goulet – Managing Partner, Adara Venture Partners and Andrej Nabergoj – CEO & Co-Founder, Noovo. I surely will.

Regardless of the real estate company, you will find agents of varying skill levels. Some agents view their work as a job while others are real enterprising people looking for the next opportunity. The most important thing when choosing a real estate agent is to ask questions and pay attention to the answers provided. The process of choosing should not be rushed in that you want someone you know is working for you, helping to get you the most money for the purchase or sell of your home while keeping expenses to a minimum.

Remember, when creating a contract with the agent, you want everything to have a positive spin on it for you. We recommend that when an agreement is made with an agent, a time-frame be included after which you would have the right to review the situation and then stay with the agent or choose someone different.

Yes, most real estate agents are honest, hard-working professionals, yet some are simply searching for prospective buyers and then offering some type of scheme that is fast. Though a qualified agent would know the right moves to sell or close the deal as soon as possible and for the most amount of money, bear in mind that any offer of moving things along extra fast for money should raise a red flag. As a customer you deserve the right to be informed and know the things for which your money is paying.

In order to be able to choose the right real estate agent

Attaining the so-called American Dream is targeted by almost everyone, yet it is becoming harder to attain. There are numerous families in America, and their figure is rising each day, that want to own a home. Being the first house to be acquired, it is a challenge how you can make it through with the expenses entirely. Well, thanks to the US administration and personal creditors 1st time home buyers aid is already possible.

Property buyer's awards are sums of money extended to individuals who are buying homes for the 1st time. When the award is given by the government, it is a certain sum of monetary fund set aside to assist those individuals pay things. These awards can assist you in your disbursements and especially with the down payment you have to earn.

For more facts on getting this property obtaining aid, you may visit web pages that offer awards. Then, you fill out an application at that place and learn how the process proceeds as each loaner requires unique processes. See whether the deadlines have not passed yet, particularly if you're making a claim for a government allotment. Naturally, you wish to be able to apply profitably. So ensure that the deadlines are a couple of days away to check that you can submit the necessities.

You have to demonstrate to the creditor that you truly are someone who needs 1st time home buyers aid

It was not so very long ago, and those of us over 30, will almost certainly had a collection of vinyl albums. Along with audio cassette, this was the height of technology, and using record player, we could listen to our songs without having to pass the time, waiting to hear them on the radio. These days, technology has changed so much it's almost unrecognizable

Those who enjoy music today can use small media players that hold all of their favorite songs, in a player that is barely larger than our thumb. The MP3 music player as a technology, initially surfaced in the mid 1980s but we would not see digital media player in its present-day shape until the late 1990s, 1998 to be exact. But as soon as it made its appearance it transformed the scope of music forever.

MP3 digital players use media processing technology to convert existing audio files into the MP3 format. The MP3 format consists of compressed audio files; sound that has been compressed into very small files that can fit into the MP3 media player. MP3s achieve this compression without noticeably sacrificing the audio's sound quality.

In some instances, it can be possible, depending on the memory size of the MP3 digital player, to hold thousands of songs within its confines. And that's not all, because of its size an MP3 music player is a portable device that can fit in handbags or coat pockets.

The MP3 media player transfers files