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The way in which it's done so is a bit unusual, but the venture capital firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz has thrown its weight behind Twitter.  A report's indicated Andreessen Horowitz spent something like $80 million to buy into the company.

Kara Swisher wrote this afternoon, "Andreessen Horowitz has invested more than $80 million in Twitter via purchasing stock in secondary markets."

Mobile app maker Bump Technologies has raised a $16m series B round of funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz, and including investments from Sequoia and others.

Netscape founder Marc Andreessen will also be joining their board along with Greg McAdoo from Sequoia.

Foursquare has announced that it's closed a new $20m Series B round of funding with Union Square Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and new partner, Andreessen Horowitz.

Hewlett-Packard Co. said Thursday it has elected Marc Andreessen to serve on its board.

Word from the New York Times is that eBay is expected to announce the sale of Skype today to a group of private investors.

This group is rumored to include Andreessen Horowitz, the new VC firm from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, started earlier this summer.

Andreessen is on eBay's board.

Private investors, most likely including a new venture capital firm headed by Marc Andreessen, are expected to buy the unit.

Now a prominent financier, Marc Andreessen is backing a start-up called RockMelt, that is building a new Internet browser.

Financially speaking, Marc Andreessen believes Facebook's on the right track.  Today, the man with ties to Netscape, AOL, and Ning - and who also happens to sit on Facebook's board - supplied some big figures with respect to the social networking company.

Mobile video streaming service Qik just got some new big-wig investors.

Ning co-founder Marc Andreessen (who is also a Facebook board member) and HP's business tech manager, Ben Horowitz have invested an as-of-yet unspecified "significant" amount of money into it.

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