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Startups in Silicon Valley

Please add your suggestions for interesting start-ups in Silicon Valley here!

Suggestions by Lukas Kahwe Smith

• Smule, Menlo Park, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smule

Suggestions by Hannes Gassert

• Palm, Sunnyvale, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/palm

Suggestions by Philipp Schroeder

Various

• Yahoo! Labs, http://labs.yahoo.com
• Yahoo! Research, http://research.yahoo.com/

By topic

• Mobile / Geolocation / "Augmented Reality"
  • Nextstop - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/nextstop
  • Waze - Palo Alto, http://world.waze.com/
  • Redbeacon - San Mateo, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/redbeacon
  • Loopt - Mountain View, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/loopt
  • Aloqa - Palo Alto (HQ in Munich), http://www.crunchbase.com/company/aloqa
  • TripIt - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tripit
  • Realtravel - Mountain View / Los Altos, <http://www.crunchbase.com /company/realtravel>
• Semantic Web / Search Technologies
  • Metaweb / Freebase - San Francisco
• SaaS / Cloud Computing / Network as a platform
  • Salesforce - San Francisco
  • Facebook - Palo Alto
• Social Software / Social Networks
  • Yammer - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/yammer
  • Yelp - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/yelp
  • Ning - Palo Alto, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/ning
  • Netflix, Los Gatos, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/netflix
  • Flixster - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/flixster
• Video / Streaming
  • Hulu - Los Angeles :-(
  • TiVo - Alviso, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tivo
• Open Data
  • Blippy / Philip Kaplan - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/blippy
• UX Design & Agile Development
  • Hot Studio - San Francisco, http://www.hotstudio.com/

Suggestions by Wolfgang

By topic

• Mobile / Geolocation / "Augmented Reality"
  • JAJAH - Mountain View (AUSTRIAN!!! Startup), http://www.jajah.com/
  • Turbine Massive online games operator - Redwood City http://www.turbine.com/
  • Electronic Arts - Redwood City, http://www.ea.com/
• Semantic Web / Search Technologies
  • Bing
• Social Software / Social Networks
  • Lithium (new partner CRM of Swisscom) - Oakland http://www.lithium.com/
• Green & Clean Tech
  • Bridgelux A Solid-State Lighting Company - Sunnyvale http://wwww.bridgelux.com/
  • Project Better Place - Palo Alto, http://www.projectbetterplace.com