Cash/Equity Headlines: $847.1 Million

From today's "Venture" email:
1. EC Roundup: Financial reform and the lost decade for entrepreneurs
2. Glam acquires Sportgenic and AdPlatform, expands premium ad tools

From yesterday's "Venture" email:
1. Is Disney ready to buy social game company Playdom for more than $600M?
2. Energy Dept. spends $106M to put captured CO2 to use
3. Apixio gets $1.5M to provide access to medical information
4. TurnHere reels in $12.6M for online video ads
5. RPI raises $5M for custom photo products

From today's "Tech" email:
1. Wisconsin: Land of Beer, Cheese, and…Startups
2. Big Money: AOL’s Beauty Pageant With Google, Microsoft For New Search Deal
3. LinkedIn Hires Shannon Stubo, Key Exec For IPO Run

From yesterday's "Tech" email:
1. Disney About To Acquire Playdom
2. The Funded’s Adeo Ressi: VCs Are Living On Borrowed Time
3. CalTech Awarded $122 Million to Create Fuel From Sunlight

From this week's "Start-Up" blog posts:
1. Venture’s Mid-Life Crisis
2. From Recap To Sale In Six Weeks
3. Sequoia, Kleiner Team Up Again
4. Friendly To Founders & Limited Partners
5. Old Investors, New Money
6. VCs Opened Their Wallets Wider In 2Q, But It’s All Relative

Meanwhile, in Iowa...