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Microsoft releases 'Bing Apps for Office' to transform your documents into something much more like the web
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 23:32
Microsoft's new Office 365 is cloud-integrated, saving documents up to SkyDrive right as you save them on your PC. Now, with five new Bing-powered apps, Microsoft is bringing the power of the cloud back down into your lo...
How Christie Street is de-risking the crowdfunded gadget
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 23:35
Christie Street, the product-focused funding platform, has just funded its first project. Kickstarter should pay attention.
Create and design websites on your PC with CoffeeCup [VB Store]
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 16:00
Sponsored Post If you've been hunting for a bundle of PC software that will allow you to code in seconds, easily publish intuitive elements to your website, and edit your images in a snap, then this VentureBeat Store dea...
Want a Square card reader? Verizon stores are literally giving them away
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 22:40
Starting today, Verizon Wireless retail stores will start selling Square hardware -- the nifty credit card-reading dongle for smartphones and tablets. The craziest part: The iOS and Android dongles are selling for $9.97,...
Will.I.Am challenges underprivileged kids to look up to tech founders
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 22:46
Will.I.Am wants the youth of America not to look up to rapper and musicians, but instead start becoming inspired by tech entrepreneurs and disruption.
Amazon is back up-and-running after extended outage
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 22:44
Amazon's homepage went down for 51 minutes this afternoon in a highly unusual outage.
PagerDuty gets $10.7M to become 'central nervous system of IT'
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 22:06
Andresseen Horowitz leads the first round of venture funding for PagerDuty, which provides IT alerting and incident tracking software.
5 key tips for mobile app promotion
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 21:3642floors takes $12.3M to hack commercial real estate at home, abroad
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 21:06
42floors raises new funds to better connect companies without office space and office space without companies.
Building for the Internet of things (and the demise of the client-server model)
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 20:24
Guest Post Developers, listen up: Everything you're doing now is about to become irrelevant. Especially when it comes to clients, servers, and end-user input.
Amplify Partners launches with a $40M IT infrastructure fund
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 20:21
The newest firm on Sand Hill Road is Amplify Partners, which will invest solely in IT infrastructure startups.
'Bend, Not Break' Author Ping Fu Responds To Backlash
Forbes - 31 Jan 2013 20:15Mobile shopping apps generate less than 5% of total e-commerce revenue
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 19:59
That fancy new app the marketing department wants so you can sell more paperweights may not be your best investment. In fact, unless you're lucky or really, really good, the app might just end up being the digital equiva...
Android tablets are still chipping away at the iPad's marketshare
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 19:29
Samsung, Amazon, and Asus continue to snatch some of the tablet market away from Apple and the iPad.
Facebook introduces Cards, a universal gift card you can send anyone
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 19:00
This morning, Facebook is rolling out Cards, a new kind of Gift product. Cards are like regular, plastic gift cards, except that they work at a large range of retailers. (For the initial rollout, the partners Facebook is...
With AngelList, 500 Startups goes application-only for its next batch of companies
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 19:00
For the first time since launching its incubator program, 500 Startups is requiring companies in its 2013 spring batch to submit an application through AngelList, which goes live today.
Samsung's stylus love affair continues: Buys 5% of Wacom for $58.2M
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 18:59
You may think Samsung is crazy for bringing back the stylus in the touchscreen smartphone age, but surprisingly strong sales of its Galaxy Note smartphone line don't lie.
Change is Coming! Are You Ready?
Forbes - 31 Jan 2013 18:42
As much as we try to control our circumstances, there simply is no stopping change - in the workplace, in our personal lives and in the world at large. Good, bad or indifferent, change is a-comin'!
Chinese hackers bring cyberwarfare to The New York Times
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 18:13
The New York Times reports that Chinese hackers secretly attacked its networks for four months.
Silicon Valley's pioneers gather for screening of PBS's American Experience documentary
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 18:00Amazon approves production on five original children's shows
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 17:27
Amazon Studios, the arm of online retail giant Amazon responsible for creating original programming, has approved production on five new children's shows. The move is part of Amazon's effort to make its Prime Instant Vid...
Fired employees hijack HMV's Twitter to livetweet their 'mass execution'
Venture Beat - 31 Jan 2013 17:26
Employees fired by the British entertainment retailer HMV decided to get even today by broadcasting their "mass execution" on the company's official Twitter account, which has almost 64,000 followers.