By some estimates, as much as 80% of the billion or so messages sent daily to NTT DoCoMo (nyse: DCM - news - people ) wireless users each day may be unsolicited.
Amid the cash-flow problems, DCM's main lender, Canada-based Maple Trade Finance, has taken control of some of the company's assets, said Carole-Ann Miller, Maple Trade's president.
The New York-based DCM is one of the city's largest steel companies and has worked on many skyline-shifting projects, including the Time Warner Center and Bloomberg LP's Lexington Avenue headquarters.
Look for Keytone Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Walden International and DCM to have more fund-raising news soon as well.
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With DCM on board, Shen got the benefit of working with DCM partner and Sina.com co-founder Hurst Lin on dealing with operational issues in China.
Startup FreedomPop, which is backed by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, DCM and Mangrove Capital, provides cheaper Internet access and the ability for people to share access with others on its network.
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Chao notes that with partners in Silicon Valley, Tokyo and Beijing, DCM is well poised to manage the A-fund.
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In addition, DCM enables inventory optimization so retailers can reduce out-of-stocks while reducing inventories.
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On Monday, DCM Capital, a small and virtually unknown London-based trading house, is set to launch a bold, and potentially risky, platform for retail customers which claims to give users the ability to translate social media sentiment into investible trading signals.
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David Chao, co-founder and general partner at venture firm DCM, is at the New York Stock Exchange for the IPO this morning of RenRen, where he is a board member.
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In addition to holding the steel contract at One World Trade Center, DCM is putting up steel for 4 World Trade Center, a 72-story tower.
Foreign-based venture capital firms have almost no presence in Japan, with the exception of DCM Capital and a smattering of other firms.
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Or how about Ruby Lu of DCM, who funded three Chinese companies that went public in the U.S.: Amazon-plus Dangdang, car web site BitAuto and outsourcing firm VanceInfo.
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