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Sprint extends special offer in attempt to keep US Cellular customers
Pedestrians walk by a Sprint retail store. Now that Sprint Nextel has completed its deal to purchase spectrum and customers from US Cellular, its next step is to offer credits in an attempt to keep those customers, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune. In November, when the agreement was announced, Sprint (NYSE: S) estimated that nearly 600,000 customers would be affected, but this most ...
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Top 5 More details on Bloom Energys big $130M funding
Bloom Energy's $130 million funding was last week's biggest venture investment in Silicon Valley and a little more detail about it was reported on Monday. Fortune reported that while it still isn't known who the investor was, an unnamed source provided it with some of the Sunnyvale fuel cell maker's financials. The report said that Bloom posted $42 million of pro forma revenue ...
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Idaho couple Sun Valley in Twitter tussle
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A central Idaho couple is suing the Sun Valley Co. and the Twitter social media site, asking a judge to bar the resort from using the Twitter handle ...
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Facebook One Year Later What Really Happened in the Biggest IPO Flop Ever
Reuters Uma Swaminathan tuned the television set in the living room of her ranch style home in the suburbs of East Brunswick, N.J. to CNBC. It was 9:00 a.m. on May 18, 2012, a day the retired schoolteacher thought might make her rich. She logged onto her Vanguard brokerage account on her computer and placed an order for 5,000 shares of Facebook at $42 a share. On TV, wearing his trademark ...
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Websense to go private after years of slow growth
(Reuters) - Websense Inc said it had agreed to be taken private by Vista Equity Partners in a deal that values the online security firm at about $907 million, a move that should come as a relief to investors after years of weak sales from its legacy ...
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Microsofts new Xbox to challenge Apple to Facebook in games
Amazon.com Inc. , which are introducing new software and devices for gaming. Microsoft's updated Xbox will use its Kinect sensor that can recognize faces and movements. The deice will also recommend content based on users' interests. The new Xbox will be in stores by the year's ...
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FIR against Facebook for objectionable page
An FIR was today registered against owners of social networking website Facebook for not removing an online community page created by some persons who have using it to "glorify" cow ...
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IPO involving Denvers Global Technology Resources called off
Greg Byles, CEO, and Glenn Smith, president, at Global Technology Resources Inc. in a 2010 photo. An initial public offering that would have led to the merger of Denver-based Global Technology Resources Inc. (GTRI) with two other companies has been called off. The IPO had been planned as a way to merge GTRI, an IT consulting firm, with San Francisco-based FusionStorm and Claremont, N.H.-based ...
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Arch Angels invest $3.1 million in Q1 rank tops among regional groups
Gil Bickel Weve reported previously that the St. Louis Arch Angels investing group was pretty active last year. Now, the group of local angel investors has been recognized for its flurry of activity in 2012. The Arch Angels were the top angel investing group in the Great Plains region for 2012, according to a report by the Angel Resource Institute. The Arch Angels were the most active group ...
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PeerApp rolls out content collaboration initiative
Charlie Baker, director of product development, PeerApp Newton, Mass.-based PeerApp, an Internet caching systems developer, has rolled out a Content Service Extension collaboration initiative with global service providers EdgeCast Networks of Santa Monica, Calif., and Limelight Networks Inc. of Tempe, Arizona. Charlie Baker, PeerApps director of product management told Mass High Tech Monday that ...
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How Is a Facebook-Like Site Actually Created From Scratch
and is open source. You can download it yourself and play with it (though you'll clearly be a few iterations behind what we're really using). There is also some fancy HTML5 and JavaScript on the front end to allow you to interact with the site without constantly posting back and reloading. Everything I've said so far is public information, and you can figure out after a few hours ...
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This week in D.C. tech InTheCapitals big shindig
InTheCapital leaps into the tech meetup business this week with the launch of DC UpFront at House of Sweden. Also: "Social" appears to be the word of the week. (Full disclosure: IntheCapital is owned by the Washington Business Journal's parent company.) Tuesday, May 21 Get It Online: The Second Screen: How Social is Revolutionizing TV Eliza Kern of GigaOM and other panelists lead a ...
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Target opens San Francisco tech center
Target on Friday unveiled its new technology office in San Francisco that will be its West Coast hub for development of mobile and online services, the Mercury News reports. The office will give the retailer a foothold in the Bay Area, where other companies including Walmart have set up tech centers to take advantage of local talent in developing online technology. Target has hired nearly 20 ...
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Dubai visitor escapes jail in Facebook photo threat
Dubai: A visitor has won a suspended imprisonment after he obtained a waiver from his ex-fiancé whom he was accused of threatening to publish her naked photos on ...
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How to Use a Military Concept to Manage SEO in a Data-Scarcity Reality
realm of uncertainty . Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military thinker, widely acknowledged as the most important of the classical strategic thinkers, wrote this saying in his seminal book ...
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Teens Arrested after Posting Rape Video on Facebook
Three Chicago-area teens are facing charges of aggravated sexual assault after they allegedly raped a girl and posted the video on Facebook. Justin Applewhite, 16, Kenneth Brown, 15, and Scandale Fritz, 16, are named in the attack. According to prosecutors, Fritz lured a 12-year-old girl to his home, took her into the basement, and sexually assaulted her. Reports indicate that he then took ...
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Yahoo makes Tumblr deal official Video
May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg Industries U.S. director of research Paul Sweeney examines Yahoo's $1.1 billion deal for Tumblr and how it can monetize and grow the acquisition while retaining its "cool factor" with users. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance." Yahoo confirmed that it will pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr on Monday in a nearly all-cash ...
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UFC Suspends Nate Diaz for Posting Gay Slur on Twitter
A fighter with the UFC as was given a lengthy ban and a sizeable fine after he posted several offensive messages on Twitter in violation of the UFC's conduct ...
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Maker Faire draws crowds in San Mateo
The Maker Faire Festival this weekend drew tens of thousands of people to the San Mateo County Fairgrounds to check out the latest do-it-yourself technology and projects. More than 120,000 people were expected to attend the annual event over the ...
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In the money May 20 Austin startup funding wrap-up
ProspX Inc., Wisegate Inc., Zebra Imaging Inc. and Postmaster Inc. pulled in funding over the past week. At least four Austin-area companies received funding last week to take their businesses to the next level, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Software maker ProspX Inc. received $8.2 million of a planned $9.2 million financing from 39 investors. Online ...
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5 challenges Marissa Mayer faces on TumblrYahoo deal
Tumblr's traffic has grown rapidly since its founding, but has dipped in recent months. Its official: Yahoos Marissa Mayer cut a deal to acquire microblogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion. The site gives Yahoo instant access to some 108 million bloggers, most under the age of 25. But the deal isn't without its share of challenges. Here are Mayers five biggest hurdles to overcome: 1: You ...
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Slideshow Steampunk Google Glass other fun from Maker Faire
Sign at entry to the Maker Faire shows the way to a few of the many attractions that covered the sprawling San Mateo event center grounds. Lock-picking anybody? "I leave my mind at home so I won't lose it at work," read a sign at the Maker Faire in San Mateo over the weekend. The annual mashup of Burning Man, science fair and gadget makers' heaven had on full display what its ...
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Exclusive 49ers COO on Super Bowl Santa Clara as the next SoMa
Paraag Marathe is the COO of the San Francisco 49ers. On Tuesday, team owners for the National Football League will decide between Santa Clara and Miami for the 2016 Super Bowl L. In an edited interview, Niners COO Paraag Marathe, a 12-year veteran of the team, shares his thoughts on Super Bowl prospects at the new $1.2 billion Santa Clara stadium and drops hints about a new, high-end 49ers ...
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Karyopharm names investors behind Series B round
Michael Kauffman, CEO, Karyopharm Karyopharm Therapeutics Monday named the investors of its $48.2 million Series B round of funding . The Natick, Mass.-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company said the Series B round, reported by Mass High Tech last week, was led by a private investor with additional investors participating in the round including Delphi Ventures. The funding will be used ...
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SA retailers slow to adopt e-commerce
retail strategy, EMEA, at JDA Software, who notes that local retailers are observing the transition that has taken place in more mature markets; learning from what has worked, avoiding costly mistakes, and shaping this into a strategic roadmap that can create a true ...
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Stephen Court disaster: any lessons learned?
Over 700 buildings in Calcutta are not compliant with safety regulations with regard to the risk of fire, and the Stephen Court disaster was a tangible example of what can happen when a fire breaks out in an unsafe building. Following that disaster, the local government seems to be taking a harder line on fire safety.
At 2.30pm on the 23 March, 2010, a devastating fire, allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit, ripped through the iconic Stephen Court building in Calcutta, destroying a large part of the 150-year-old office and residential block and killing over 30 people. Read more
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