Venture capital investment at highest point since 2001
Venture capitalists pumped $6.4 billion into American companies in the third quarter of this year, according to a report from Dow Jones VentureOne. That's up 10 percent from the third quarter of 2005. Information technology and alternative energy companies attracted a big chunk of the money. VentureOne says communications and networking companies attracted 23 percent more venture money than the same quarter last year.
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