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Why Arguing About An Entrepreneur's Age Misses The Point
Forbes - 5 Dec 2012 02:054 Crowdfunding Mistakes for Social Entrepreneurs to Avoid
Forbes - 5 Dec 2012 07:59Andreessen-Horowitz injects $30M into encryption startup CloudCipher
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 21:52
If someone is trying to break into your enterprise, it's likely because they want your data. Companies are calling for cloud encryption, and Andreessen-Horowitz is joining the chorus by investing $30 million into cloud e...
CloudPay nabs $16M from Pinnacle, Rho, & others to improve payroll management
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 19:51
Cloud-based payroll management business CloudPay has raised $16 million in its second round of funding, a move will help it grow and further refine its software-as-a-service for small and large business payrolls.
Red-hot mobile security startup Zenprise gets snapped up by Citrix
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 23:58
Zenprise has been acquired by Citrix, which may come as a surprise to Silicon Valley insiders who expected an initial public offering from the red-hot mobile security startup.
Microsoft lowers Windows Azure storage prices to better fight Amazon & Google
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 23:56
Microsoft said it will soon drop prices by as much as 28 percent on its Windows Azure cloud storage, a move to help it compete with cloud offerings from Amazon, Google, and other competitors.
HTML5 is a fat man’s bag of surprises
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 23:52
Guest Post A recent VentureBeat post outlined a series of reason why HTML5 failed to deliver in 2012. But here are five reasons to look forward to HTML5 in the new year.
Lazada, Asia’s answer to Amazon, raises a fresh $26M
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 23:50
Asia's answer to Amazon has raised a new $26 million in funding round by Germany's Summit Parters.
Is “software-defined†just a new way to whitewash old products?
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 23:30
Guest Post It's incredible what a $1.26 billion acquisition can do. Suddenly a host of startups are calling themselves "software-defined something." Is there any substance to the term?
The numbers don't add up for Small Biz Saturday, but does it matter?
Boston - 5 Dec 2012 23:18
Depending on who you believe, Small Business Saturday was a booming success or fell flat of expectations. As I mentioned last week regardless of how much money was spent, how many mentions were made in social media or ho...
The Onion: Apple should fix its Maps flaws by rearranging the planet (video)
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 23:00
How can Apple fix is Maps problems? According to The Onion, it should start by rearranging the planet.
At Discover, HP takes the beta sticker off its public cloud
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 22:26
Software giant Hewlett-Packard has announced the general availability of its Open Stack-powered public cloud service.
More Than A Marriage: Forbes Talks Business Partnerships
Forbes - 5 Dec 2012 22:05Nokia’s low-end Lumia 620 may just save its skin
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 21:54
By being targeted at low-end markets, the Lumia 860 may do more for Nokia than any other Lumia before it.
[VIDEO] Q&A Highlights From The 2012 ANA Annual Conference
Forbes - 5 Dec 2012 21:29Founder Divorce: Nine Lessons From When My Business Partner Jumped Ship
Forbes - 5 Dec 2012 21:22Modernizing Medicine gets $12M to push physicians into the digital age
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 21:21
Modernizing Medicine, the South Florida-based company known for its electronic medical record (EMR) application for the iPad, has raised $12 in funding.
The entire app universe will be there! Will you?
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 21:07
Sponsored Post Once in a blue moon, a show agenda comes together so well that even the most skeptical conference organizers attempt to explain to their parents what it is that they do for a living... albeit unsuccessf...
Big-name investors throw $15M at news aggregation startup Prismatic
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 21:05
Ever heard of Prismatic? Until yesterday, neither had we. But founder Bradford Cross wouldn’t stop pinging our collective inbox about his company’s latest news, which turned out to be a $15 million round of...
Facebook borrows Twitter’s “follow†terminology to replace “subscribeâ€
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 21:04
Facebook defined the word "poke" for a new generation, but the social network can't say the same about the word "subscribe."
You’re invited: Facebook’s first-ever hardware hackathon
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 20:53
Facebook’s Open Compute Project, a huge effort to create and promote open-source hardware, is hosting its first-ever hardware hackathon. The hackathon will take place next month in Santa Clara, Calif., at the OCP�...
Screw Google Glass, I want my augmented-reality heads-up-display contact lenses
Venture Beat - 5 Dec 2012 20:52
It's almost too bad that Apple has already patented its term for very high-density, high-quality screens. Because this truly has the potential to be an actual retina display.