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Flipboard adds 1M users since launching iPhone app
Popular mobile app Flipboard, which allows users to flip through Web pages on their mobile devices like a magazine, has Read More
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SAY Media acquires ReadWriteWeb for a reported $5M
There's been a bit of drama over at AdWeek about a story about the acquisition of popular tech blog ReadWriteWeb. Read More
Despite what could be considered a very crowded market for incubators/acceleratory, yet another has emerged. This time from Los Angeles. Read More
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Tagged acquires Hi5 in a bid to double its user base
One of Facebook's competitors, Hi5, was acquired by San Francisco-based Tagged on Wednesday. In 2008, Hi5 was in the top Read More
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FAA approves use of iPads in American Airlines flights
Actor and extreme Words with Friends enthusiast Alec Baldwin recently got kicked off an American Airlines flight for refusing to Read More
Today's Entrepreneur is Halvor Gregusson, founder and the CEO of Yast. According to his VEQ Halvor is good at product Read More
We've come a long way from making international calls costing $2.43 a minute. That was circa 1970, when most of Read More
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Mark Pincus: The man turning play into a business
Just five years ago, no one had heard of Zynga or the bubblegum-colored cartoons that inhabit its various themed universes. Read More
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Outbrain nabs $34M to expand article-suggestion service
The discovery platform for published content online, Outbrain, has uncovered a $34 million Series D round of funding Wednesday -- this Read More
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TaskRabbit hops off with $17.8M for chore-helping
Getting your chores done may have just gotten a bit easier since the errand outsourcing companyTaskRabbit secured $17.8 million of Read More
Betterworks, which launched its formal product in June to help small- to medium-sized businesses manage and offer affordable perks to Read More
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Sponsored story ads to run in Facebook mobile apps
Facebook may be soon be showing "sponsored stories" in the news feed in mobile apps for the first time. Ads Read More
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Pandora sees surge in listenership in top 10 markets
I speculated a few days ago that online streaming music site Pandora may be in trouble, due to its mega-competitor Read More
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Google acquires Clever Sense, maker of Alfred
Google, in all its wisdom and might, announced Wednesday its purchase of Clever Sense, the makers of a mobile restaurant recommendation app Read More
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Top 10 ways to monetize, leverage your blog
Blogging has come a long way from the periphery. The common punch-line comparing the act to confused teenage poetry has Read More
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