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Eric Ries on learning, failing, and pivoting
Author, speaker, and consultant Eric Ries spoke at Thursday's Amplify event, where the former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers venture Read More
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Gnip gets $2M to resell the Twitter firehose
Gnip, a social media data provider for businesses, Read More
Thirteen startups competed in Thursday's Amplify business pitch competition, but only one walked away the victor. Jen O'Neal, co-founder and Read More
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CityVille: Zynga still knows how to clone
In Hello City (Crowdstar), you build a city. In Millionaire City (Digital Chocolate), you’re a rich businessperson that purchases land Read More
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MySpace mashes up with Facebook Connect
Looks like Girl Talk isn’t the only mashup artist in town.MySpace, having long since surrendered the social graph to Facebook, Read More
Recruiting and selecting internship candidates is never dull. Along with the applications of overachievers and emerging moguls come the sometimes Read More
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Zemanta makes a $3M round for blogging tool
Zemanta, a browser add-on that help bloggers add supplemental content to their posts, announced Thursday that it has raised $3 Read More
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Esther Dyson on space travel and Groupon
Angel investor Esther Dyson joined the Amplify event via Skype Thursday and spoke with journalist Cathy Brooks. Interesting tidbit about Read More
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Big Fish Games expands into new languages
Big Fish Games announced Thursday that it is expanding its games into several new languages and currencies. One might wonder Read More
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Gowalla’s goin’ to Disney!
If you’ve ever gone to a theme park—or worse, taken kids to a theme park—you know that the process of Read More
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What you need to know – Thursday 11/18/10
Gowalla, a location based social network, has announced a partnership with Disney. This means that Gowalla will be creating a Read More
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Amplify finalists
Updated to include Is That Odd, Inc. Thursday’s Amplify business pitch competition in San Francisco will spotlight a number of Read More
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Williams: A million ways to Twitter revenue
While Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had the honor of closing Web 2.0 Summit’s second day, Evan Williams, former CEO and now Read More
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Mike McCue explains Flipboard
I recently sat down with Mike McCue, co-founder and CEO of Flipboard, to talk about the iPad app that's been Read More
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Virtual goods sales soar 245% to $7.3B
Many are wondering what to make of Zynga’s huge success in casual gaming. From its recent creation in 2007 to Read More
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