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Taking away one more hurdle to gain users, Zoho (DEMO 07) today announced that registered users of Yahoo! and Google services can use the usernames and passwords from those accounts to log into Zoho's 20 Web-based productivity and business software applications.

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San Francisco – Sprout, (DEMO 08) software for creating and publishing multimedia information as Web widgets, today received $5 million in Series B financing led by Polaris Venture Partners of Waltham, Mass. Mike Hirshland, general partner at Polaris, has joined Sprout’s board of directors. Existing investor Global Venture Capital and Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corp.

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Two weeks into the DEMO Tour and I’m noticing something surprising. When you get outside the broadband beltway, effectively that stretch of territory along the West Coast that runs from Seattle down through Silicon Valley, you begin to see a lot more women entrepreneurs.

During the last two months, I met exactly two women founders at my office in San Francisco – and one of them was visiting from London. Two weeks into the tour, and I’ve met smart women in Seattle, Boston, and New York, and I’m lined up to meet more in Austin and Tel Aviv.

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New mobile content search engine Zodigo (DEMO 08), which spun out from Emmy-award winner Zodiac Interactive as an independent company in late April, is now deployed in trials in 1.5 million homes as a proof-of-concept of the mash-up between interactive television and mobile telephone marketing.

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VMware (DEMO 1999 and 2003) is releasing two bundles of management and automation products designed to streamline disaster recovery and curb virtual server sprawl.

The bundles, announced Monday, include several previously released products built on top of VMware's virtualization software and two that are new. The new products are Site Recovery Manager, designed to simplify disaster recovery on virtual machines; and Stage Manager, designed for deploying and updating applications on virtual machines.

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Red Wahoo of Melbourne, Australia brings a unique perspective to B2B integration by creating a public directory of business Web services. The company’s Monterverdi Conductor is effectively the “Facebook” for companies, allowing companies to profile their businesses and their electronic trading capabilities.

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Shares of video search engine firm blinkx, plc. (London AIM: BLNX) (DEMO 07) surged 50 percent on a U.K. stock exchange to a seven-month high on Friday, on rumors that Internet giant Google and media conglomerate NewsCorp may bid for the company.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would subject broadband providers to antitrust violations if they block or slow Internet traffic.

U.S. Representatives John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from the Silicon Valley in California, are sponsoring the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act.

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Kaazing Corp. of Mountain View, Calif. (DEMO 08) today announced it will integrate with Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s open source Java Enterprise Edition application server, GlassFish to enable the creation of dynamic Internet applications such as trading systems, gambling applications, and interactive sports and news broadcasts.

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