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Microsoft socializes games, adds CrowdStar

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ConnectEDU raises $7M in Series D funding

A plethora of startups have realized the importance of education—not just in terms of their hiring decisions (although I’m sure Read More

TokBox raises $12M, launches OpenTok

The video chat space is heating up.  TokBox, a San Francisco-based Web video communications provider, announced Monday the close of Read More

Fragmentation

Building Web apps is not getting easier. The fragmentation of operating systems and browsers is getting worse, not better. Here's Read More

Hiring a big company exec for your startup?

Fast growing startups need experienced big company execs to take them to the next level, right? Wrong. Big company execs Read More

Hubris vs humility: The $15B difference

Describing your product as “new and “never been done before” instead of “we’re just like those others guys, but better” Read More

Facebook and Microsoft email vs Google Gmail?

In advance of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s conversation at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this Tuesday, Facebook will be Read More

Google updates map: too little too late?

Many are likely aware of the “war” between Google and Facebook: Facebook is sucking up all of Google’s talent, Google Read More

IMVU expands into seven new languages

Social games are a hot commodity right now. As major players like DeNA and Zynga threaten to align and social Read More

Tumblr raises a fourth round from Sequoia

Microblogging platform Tumblr has secured a new round of financing from high-profile venture firm Sequoia Capital, according to Business Insider.Former Read More

GE to buy 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015

Looking to break into clean tech?  Electric vehicles and EV infrastructure are the way to go.  General Electric announced late Read More

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