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Maveron gets ‘em while they’re young with new seed stage investment program
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 23:47
Maveron, a well-known venture capital firm that focuses exclusively on consumer-facing companies, announces an initiative to fund and support seed stage startups.
What’s next for BYOD?
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 23:31
Guest Post Many companies have begun to embrace the concept of BYOD. But there's still a lot of work to be done.
Bye-bye roaming fees: Google Translate for Android gets new offline mode
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 23:09
Sometimes, you just have to say wow.
Here’s what Adobe plans to do with Behance, starting with free portfolio sites
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 21:45
Starting today, Creative Cloud subscribers (paid tiers only) will get free access to Behance's ProSites, a feature that gives creatives customized online portfolios with cleaned-up URLs and great UIs.
Disruptors 2013
Forbes - 27 Mar 2013 21:43
These dozen are shaking up their fields most dramatically. We've paired them with legendary disruptors.
Analyst Moves: DSW, NWL
Forbes - 27 Mar 2013 21:41
DSW (DSW) was upgraded from hold to buy by Citigroup (C) as the company has the highest square footage growth in the industry and the gross margins justify higher multipLes. A price target of $74 was set.
4 secrets for monetizing mobile apps across platforms
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 21:37Facebook testing News Feed tweak that makes it harder to unfollow noisy friends
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 21:28
Facebook has started a test on select users that makes it impossible to unfollow friends from the News Feed.
Pending Home Sales Index Falls
Forbes - 27 Mar 2013 21:25
The National Association of Realtors announced on Wednesday that the Pending Home Sales Index, which is based on contracts that were signed last month fell by 0.4% to 104.8. Despite this, contracts remained at the second...
Japanese telecom buys majority stake in Puzzle & Dragons developer GungHo
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 21:03
SoftBank dropped $265 million to take 58.5 percent of GungHo Entertainment.
Analyst Moves: BEAV, GOOG
Forbes - 27 Mar 2013 20:51
BE Aerospace (BEAV) had its price target and estimates increased by UBS (UBS) due to the upcoming SFE ramp as well as the paydown of debt. A price target of $67 was set.
Analyst Moves: APOL, CLF
Forbes - 27 Mar 2013 20:50
Apollo (APOL) was downgraded by Wells Fargo (WFC) from outperform to market perform as the company has been closing campuses.
Russian Oligarch Boris Berezovsky's Final Interview: 'I Want To Go Home'
Forbes - 27 Mar 2013 20:49
The following is translated and reprinted in its entirety from Forbes-Russia. Reporter Ilya Zhegulev met with exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky on March 22. Berezovsky's body was found a day later on the bathroo...
eBay’s new ‘Sell it Forward’ program channels your hoarding impulses for charity
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 20:00
eBay is partnering with Goodwill to launch a new pilot program. You mail in your stuff, Goodwill tries to sell it for you, and what doesn't get sold gets donated.
U.K. launches secret cyber attack monitoring center for its information sharing program
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 19:58
The U.K. has launched a program that it hopes will spur information sharing about cyber attacks between the government and private sectors. In addition to the program, it has also opened a 'fusion cell' cyber attack moni...
Springpad’s latest upgrade brings embeddable notebooks & more marketing toys
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 19:52
Embeddable Notebooks are an extension of the popular Pinterest-style digital notebooks: collections of projects, photos, and ideas that help users organize information and get things done.
Amazon infuses TV Shows on Kindle Fire with data from IMDb
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 19:39
Can't remember the names of the guest star on the episode of Doctor Who you're watching via Kindle Fire? Well, Amazon has you covered.
Adria Richards speaks on women, men, and tech … but not a certain fired developer
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 19:34
In the week or so since she tweeted a picture of a joking developer that eventually resulted in his firing, her company SendGrid getting DDOS'd, her firing, and a host of sometimes-scary attacks online, she hasn't tweete...
Justin Timberlake
Forbes - 27 Mar 2013 19:31
The singer/actor has been everywhere promoting his new album, "The 20/20 Experience."
Social Entrepreneurship on the High Seas
Forbes - 27 Mar 2013 19:19
Sailing some of the most promising socially- and environmentally-focused technology companies around the world to meet local business leaders, investors and fellow entrepreneurs may not be the most conventional way of he...
Daily Dividends Report: FCX, NI, ARCP, ONFC, BVN
Forbes - 27 Mar 2013 19:18
Freeport-Mcmoran Copper (FCX) maintained its quarterly dividend of 31.25 cents per share. The dividend is payable on May 1, 2013 to holders of record as of April 15, 2013 for its common stock.
Submissions are open for HealthBeat 2013 Innovation Showdown!
Venture Beat - 27 Mar 2013 19:15
There's no arguing that technology advancement is disrupting the $3 trillion health care market. We're showcasing the 10 most interesting health care IT startups and companies that are driving this change.