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Tweet Vive originally announced a no-interest financing solution for its VR helmet earlier this year. Now the program has expanded to include high-end graphics cards, PCs and gaming laptops. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Foursquare announced on Thursday that it has raised $ 41 million in financing from a group of venture funds, but in an interesting twist the funding is convertible debt rather than equity. To some, that reinforces just how much pressure the company is under to show that it has an actual business, and that it can someday generate enough value to justify the financing it has already raised. In…

Tweet There’s one area of solar that is going gangbusters in 2013, and that’s companies that are financing and installing solar panels on rooftops. On Monday morning solar financing startup Clean Power Finance announced that it has raised a round of $ 37 million in growth equity from investors including Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Claremont Creek Venture. Odds are, it’s a pretty safe bet even for the venture capitalists…

Tweet Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has invested in Henry Blodget’s website Business Insider, according to a report first published by Bloomberg and then confirmed with an internal memo at Business Insider. Bezos led a $ 5 million series E round that also included participation from RRE Ventures and Institutional Venture Partners. The new investment brings the total amount of money that Business Insider has raised to $ 18.3 million. In…

Tweet The financing, marketing and sales of rooftop solar panels is exploding into a big business. On the heels of Sungevity raising a whopping $ 125 million of equity and project financing last week, and the IPO of SolarCity last month, solar financier OneRoof Energy has announced that it’s raised $ 30 million in equity from Korean energy company Hanwha Group. Launched in 2011 and based in San Diego, Calif.,…