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• Google and Microsoft kiss and make up over YouTube spat

  by Steven Loeb, May 25, 2013

  The two companies will work together to make a Windows Phone YouTube app compiant with Google's TOS

  “Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube’s API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks,” Microsoft and Google said in a joint statement to TheNextWeb. “Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time.”

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• Stanford BASES - a model for University entrepreneurs

  by Steven Loeb, May 25, 2013

  BASES lets students get hands-on experience knowing what it means to be an Entrepreneur

  In addition, the 120 students running the organization, there is also a board of advisors that is composed of Stanford professors as well as past BASES contributors who are nominated to join the board. These include Jonathan Berger, former President of BASES, who went on to become product manager at Google twice and helped start two companies Picurio, which graduated Y Combinator, and Katango, which

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• List of top Bay Area accelerators and incubators

  by Faith Merino, May 24, 2013

  If you want to find one, they're everywhere!

  So you have the basics of your startup figured out, but you need a little help getting off the ground? You need a little acceleration, you say? You live in the Bay Area and you need information on organizations devoted to accelerating startups? Welcome, friend! You’re in luck, because if there’s one thing the Bay Area has an abundance of, it’s accelerators. Here are a few to consider:

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• Funding roundup - week ending 05/24/13

  by Steven Loeb, May 24, 2013

  Lyft, UpOut, Swivl, Change.org, Weemo, Mission Markets, Cubic Telecom, Adly, Imonomy, LoyalBlocks

  Seed stage Social local discovery service, UpOut raised $850,000 in seed funding from a number of Silicon Valley angels, including Sand Hill Angels and TEEC Angels. Postmaster, provider of an API for shipping packages, raised $600,000 in a seed round led by Capital Factory, Cloud Power, and Zelkova Ventures. Data API Orchestrate.io raised a seed investment round of $3 million led by True Ventures a

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• FTC set to probe Google's display-ads practices

  by Steven Loeb, May 24, 2013

  Google already being investigated for antitrust violations by the EU, Canada and South Korea

  (Updated to reflect comment from the FTC) Here we go again. After finally reaching a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission in January over alleged antitrust violations with its search algorithms, the agency is now looking into potentially opening yet another inquiry, this time into how whether or not Google is using its dominant position in the online display-advertising market to curb comp

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• Report: Google looking to outbid Facebook for Waze

  Waze said to be looking for more than the $1 billion Facebook is offering

  Earlier this month it was reported that Facebook was looking to make the acquisition for between $800 million and $1 billion. But now Google is apparently getting into the mix as well, and could spark ...
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• Facebook cancels rollout of HTC First in UK

  Home has seen terrible reception and sales of HTC First said to be suffering

  Customer reviews of Facebook Home have been pretty abysmal, to say the least. With a 2.3 star average, and 9,349 one star reviews out of a total of 18,004, is anyone shocked that the HTC First, which came ...
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• Yahoo buys PlayerScale - ninth startup in nine months

  Maker of mobile gaming infrastructure becomes the latest find in Yahoo's acquisition spree

  I can understand if you thought that Yahoo might want to take a break from what is becoming a pretty epic startup shopping spree after the company agreed to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion earlier this week. ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Mission Markets bags $1.5M for impact investing

  The A2 round brings Mission Markets' Series A to $3M

  For the socially conscious retail investor, buying stocks is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you’re growing your long-term wealth and securing your financial future, but on the other hand—uh-oh, ...
  By Faith Merino
  

• JustFab acquires Fab Shoes to conquer France and Spain

  JustFab ramps up international expansion, adds 5M members in five months

  Like a mighty conquistador (minus the historic cruelty and human rights abuses), JustFab is traversing the globe and carving out a larger stake for itself. One year after launching in Germany and the UK, ...
  By Faith Merino
  

• 10 million Galaxy S4 phones sold in less than a month

  Galaxy S4 hits the milestone in half the time it took the S3, four new colors coming soon

  Just last week, Samsung Electronics co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun told reporters that he believed that the Galaxy S4 would hit the 10 million mark this week. Not only did that prediction come true, but the S4 ...
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• Two executives say goodbye to Square

  Alex Petrov and Alyssa Cutright both departed the company, with Petrov leaving before he started

  Petrov, the former Vice President of Consumer Brands at Safeway, was to start his job as Vice President of Partnerships at Square, it was announced at the beginning of the month. But Square has confirmed ...
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• Get your fan fic weird on with Amazon's Kindle Worlds

  Amazon Publishing finds ingenious way to profit off of fan fiction

  You think you have some weird proclivities because you write fan fiction about a love triangle between you, a Ryan Gosling vampire, and a James Franco werewolf? Giiirrrrrl, you don’t know weird. ...
  By Faith Merino
  

• Verizon partners with Jennifer Lopez-backed Viva Movil

  Viva Movil will cater to the Latino community, with its own stores that have an bilingual staff

  If you watch the news, or pay attention to politics at all, you already know that Latinos are the fastest growing population in the United States. And that fact is already starting to affect how businesses ...
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• Event marketplace UpOut raises $850K seed round

  The service helps users find and organize events

  One of the more interesting developments that’s come out of social media in recent months is the rise of local discovery via event meetups. Sites like the aptly named Meetup allow users to organize, ...
  By Faith Merino
  

• Twitter debuts new Lead Generation Cards

  These cards lets brands and businesses register new users directly from Twitter

  In an effort to further expand its advertising revenue, Twitter has introduced Lead Generation Cards, a new type of card that gives businesses and brands a way to sign up new users from within a tweet, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Today's Entrepreneur: Jason Grunstra

  No. 1 mistake: Not taking risks

  Plug.dj is an international community where people can enjoy music/videos together in a socially interactive environment. Our customers are brands seeking a highly integrated advertising channel, ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Here is a preview of AngelPad's Demo Day

  We highlight four of the 12 companies that will be presenting for angels and investors on Wednesday

  After receiving a few thousand applications, and interviewing 120 companies, it has come down to 12 startups whp will be presenting their companies to angels and investors, in the hopes of attracting a ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Why you should be angry with Apple's tax shenanigans

  Tim Cook's corporate tax proposal: "Not zero."

  Tim Cook took to Capitol Hill Tuesday to defend Apple’s complex matrix of tax dodging trickery. Several times throughout the hearing, he was asked what kind of corporate tax rate we should have in ...
  By Faith Merino
  

• Postmaster raises $600K to simplify eCommerce shipping

  The TechStars Cloud graduate gets support from Capital Factory, Cloud Power, and Zelkova Ventures

  E-commerce growth continues to dominate brick-and-mortar retail growth. While online retail still only accounts for less than 10% of all retail dollars spent in the U.S., it’s gobbling up more and ...
  By Faith Merino
  
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