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Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 23:20
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Orlando startup Kony raises $18.3M to help big brands stay afloat on mobile
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 23:09
Kony has raised $18.3 million in its fourth round of funding. Kony powers apps for enterprise organizations and brands across multiple channels and operating systems.
Strangling innovation: Tesla versus "rent seekers"
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 22:46
Guest Post The greatest number of jobs is created when startups create a new market - one where the product or service never existed before or is radically more convenient. Yet this is where startups will run into anti-i...
Putin says Russia will not extradite Snowden; confirms he is in Moscow
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 21:35
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Edward Snowden, who is wanted in the U.S. for espionage, has not committed a crime in Russia, and thus will not by extradited back to the U.S.
Archenemies Salesforce, Oracle put differences aside to form cloud partnership
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 21:06
Enterprise tech titans Oracle and Salesforce are putting aside their differences and entering into a nine year cloud partnership.
Why smart digital marketers don't focus on Facebook or Twitter
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 20:46
Customers acquired via Twitter are worth 23 percent less, and Facebook brings in just barely average clients. But pay-per-click advertising brings in customers worth 46 percent more, and organic search brings in buyers w...
The Next Big Sound Co-Founder Answers Your Entrepreneurship Questions Via Live Chat
Forbes - 25 Jun 2013 20:40
Got a question for Alex ? Use the chat feature above to get it answered live.
Another Conflicted Foreclosure Review: PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ally/ResCap
Forbes - 25 Jun 2013 20:40
One of the fundamental tenets of the ?independent? foreclosure reviews of mortgage servicers ordered by the OCC and Federal Reserve Board was the independence and objectivity of the consultants. The ICs for the IFRs were...
Second screen TV startup Watchwith grabs $5M
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 19:59
Watchwith, a startup that provides sync-to-broadcast technology to many second screen TV services, has secured a new $5 million round of funding, the company announced today.
PeerTransfer raises $6.4M to smarten up international tuition payments
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 19:52
PeerTransfer provides global payment solutions for the education industry, making it easier and cheaper for international students to make their tuition payments.
Keas raises $8M to get employees to exercise and eat more veggies
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 19:18
Businesses use Keas to create and manage their workplace health programs through socialization and game playing.
German incubator proves a 'clone factory' isn't a bad thing
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 19:14
Guest Post Rocket Internet is portrayed as a "clone factory." But Rocket wants to be the best at execution; hence, it innovates on the execution model rather than innovating on product.
Twitter adds 5 new Ads API partners to go hard-core social marketing -- and hard-core enterprise
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 19:09
Twitter's first five Ads API partners were dominated by hard-core digital advertisers. Its newest five API partners are dominated by hard-core enterprise-focused social media marketing firms.
Biba launches with $15M to make business communication less 'awful'
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 18:48
Biba is a mobile app that delivers conference calls and messaging inside and outside of company networks and across multiple devices. It has raised $15 million from InterWest Partners, Benchmark Capital, Trinity Ventures...
The NSA's Slideshow Explaining Its PRISM Surveillance Program
Forbes - 25 Jun 2013 18:40
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The Most Controversial Digital Busts
Forbes - 25 Jun 2013 18:40
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Forbes - 25 Jun 2013 18:40Why Some Employees Need To Be Fired
Forbes - 25 Jun 2013 18:17
When we were kids, we used to play the 'dead weight' game - where you'd go absolutely limp on the ground and see how hard it was for your friends to lift you up. We found it unaccountably hilarious.
Property-Rights Advocates Win As SCOTUS Tightens Rules On Building Permits
Forbes - 25 Jun 2013 18:15Invi gets $3M from Ashton Kutcher & others to 'replace your native SMS'
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 17:49
Invi, a mobile messaging app based in Israel, has pulled in a $3 million seed round today.
Apple will score $18B of the $27B app market in 2013 (report)
Venture Beat - 25 Jun 2013 17:10
The revenue gap has existed for a long time in spite of Android's massive userbase growth to 900 million strong.