Affordable Car Loans: A Look At The Winner(s) Of The Founder Showcase Pitch Competition

Affordable Car Loans: A...

Last night, over 500 people gathered in San Francisco for the eighth Founder Showcase , a quarterly startup pitch event that brings together technology CEOs, investors, and early-stage startups for a night of networking and pitchin’. The event is hosted by Founder Institute , but...
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PRIMEHPC FX10: Fujitsu To Market New Supercomputer To Companies

PRIMEHPC FX10: Fujitsu ...

Fujitsu announced it has adapted technology from its supercomputer “K” ( which is the world’s fastest ) into PRIMEHPC FX10, a commercial model that will be offered globally. The PRIMEHPC FX10 can be scaled up to a 98,304 nodes/1,024 rack configuration with a top...
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Personalized Travel Sea...

Room 77, a comprehensive search engine and review site focused exclusively on hotel rooms, is rolling out the ability to actually book hotels from its site. Starting today, travelers can now use Room 77 to compare prices across a variety of room types, and book more than 120,000 hotels...
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CrunchFund, Angels Back...

Flowdock , a group chat application for teams and businesses, has raises $650,000 in seed funding from Gil Penchina , CrunchFund , Marten Mickos , and IDG Ventures . Flowdock, which aims to disrupt the group chat space, is a collaboration web app for technical teams. As we wrote in our...
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Calling Bullshit On The...

Editor’s note : Guest contributor Paul Lee is a Partner at Lightbank Capital .  You can follow him @iPaulLee . A lot has been written about the Series A Crunch .  The gist of the argument is that the number of seed financings have gone up (with the advent of incubators such as...
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Strangeloop Nabs $10 Mi...

Strangeloop , the provider of web content optimization solutions and enterprise applications, today announced that it has raised $10 million in series B funding from a private investment group. Though Strangeloop wasn’t saying who this private investment group is, we’ve...
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Zuckerberg’s Pitch To...

Guys I’m still really sleepy from China jetlag so I don’t know if I’ll get through the entire hour of this, but I know it’ll interest some of you and probably me when I wake up so I’m posting it here so some other tech blogger doesn’t get to it first....
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Startup Weekend EDU Rec...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $250,000 to the Startup Weekend EDU series of events, the dedicated education-focused vertical within the non-profit. The  Startup Weekend organization, which is supported by the Kauffman Foundation and the social learning startup...
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8 Mainstream Celebritie...

1. Lady Gaga Startup Investments: Lady Gaga and fellow celebrity Kanye West invested $7.5 million in Turntable.fm – a website that allows you to experience and discover music online with your friends. Users can rate music with their friends by clicking either the...
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Top 10 Role-Playing Gam...

1. Dragon Fantasy Fans of RPGs dating back to the NES era will love this. The story and dialog is often goofy, and the game is boiled down to the essence of the genre, but everything that defines the old-school turn-based RPGs is present. Expect to do plenty of grinding, and suffer all...
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