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Startup News for 29 April 2015
Apple's iTunes Store woes continue as sales of books, music and videos fell 4 percent in Q2
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 09:14
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Russia launches two major internationally-oriented tech funds
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 09:01
Russia creates a fund to focus on high-growth tech companies that could go public.
Safeguarding Data in the Turbulent Cyber Age
Forbes - 29 Apr 2015 23:51
Muddu Sudhakar is a seasoned and successful entrepreneur with more than 20 years experience working with Silicon Valley companies. He co-founded and is currently CEO of Caspida, a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto...
NCSoft, South Korea's No. 2 Online-Gaming Company, Under Siege
Forbes - 29 Apr 2015 23:45
Caught in the middle.
Coupang's Bom Kim Leads Big Crop Of Rising Stars
Forbes - 29 Apr 2015 23:45
Coupang's Bom Kim leads big crop of rising stars closing in on list of South Korea's richest people
Amazon pays $20M-$50M for ClusterK, the startup that can run apps on AWS at 10% of the regular price
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 23:34
Exclusive: This startup built impressive technology for making the most of Amazon's Spot Instances for application deployment. No wonder Amazon bought it.
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview for PCs with Aero Glass, Cortana redesign, and fresh sounds
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 23:21
Windows 10 borrows from Windows 7.
Five Email Habits To Steal From The World's Busiest People
Forbes - 29 Apr 2015 23:02
If they can make it work, so can you.
The Kardashian effect: Tencent pays $126M for 15% of Glu Mobile
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 23:01
Chinese giant buys a stake in the game publisher that made Kim Kardashian: Hollywood mobile game.
The Seven Habits Of Really Ineffective Managers Part 3: They Stay In Their Comfort Zone
Forbes - 29 Apr 2015 22:53
Life is a series of challenges and responses. Learning to crawl, learning to walk, starting school, graduating...on and on it goes. But Really Ineffective Managers see it differently. At some point they want the challeng...
Trumaker: Made-To-Measure Apparel For The Uber Generation
Forbes - 29 Apr 2015 22:51
Trumaker, a California-based apparel start-up, is a mobile outfitter for custom-made men's fashion.
Funding Daily: Today's tech funding news, in one place
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 22:39
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Mode Media's new social video site drives 1.8M views in 5 hours to video blogger Meghan Rienks
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 22:30
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GameMaker: Studio plans to show off Windows 10 Universal Apps at Build 2015
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 21:25
Developing for multiple platforms is about to get easier, as long as all of those platforms use Windows 10.
Everything that happened at the 2015 Microsoft Build developer conference
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 21:17
Gaming execs: Join 180 select leaders from King, Glu, Rovio, Unity, Facebook, and more at GamesBeat Summit. This is an invite-only event so apply now! Today at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, the company unveil...
Salesforce stock price spiked 12% on news that it hired bankers to field takeover bids
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 21:11
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Microsoft announces Continuum for phones in Windows 10
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 20:20
It looks like a native PC experience -- but it's actually through a Windows 10 phone.
Microsoft announces Windows Holographic Platform, letting developers build Windows 10 apps for HoloLens
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 20:10
Gaming execs: Join 180 select leaders from King, Glu, Rovio, Unity, Facebook, and more at GamesBeat Summit. This is an invite-only event so apply now! At its Build 2015 developer conference today, Microsoft announced the...
Internet Explorer's successor, Project Spartan, is called Microsoft Edge
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 19:50
Edge will be the default browser for all Windows 10 devices.
How Brands Can Make User-Generated Content Work For Them
Forbes - 29 Apr 2015 19:37
This article is by Al Cadena, senior account director of digital agency Beeby Clark+Meyler.
Microsoft details four new Windows Store app types: Web, desktop, Android, and iOS
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 19:32
If you already build for Android and iOS, you can now port your apps and games to Windows with minimal changes.
Instagram talks up its Apple Watch app
Venture Beat - 29 Apr 2015 19:32
Users can monitor their feeds, see activity on their own posts, and more.
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