ExtremeU: Facebook To O...

Extreme Venture Partners , the Toronto and Palo Alto-based early-stage venture firm, today announced that it is launching a new-and-improved version of its accelerator program, Extreme University — also known as “ExtremeU”. Extreme Venture Partner’s accelerator...
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Do A Barrel Roll! In Go...

Everyone, stay alert. Do a barrel roll! Or let Google do it for you. No, seriously. Go to Google and type in “Do a barrel roll” and watch, well, I won’t ruin it for you. ( LMGTFY link ) Alternatively you could type “z or r twice”, which is a reference to the...
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Venuelabs Is Launching ...

Venuelabs , a company which got its start as Valuevine before a pivot in early 2011, is launching a new service called VenueRank this week at the Geo-Loco conference in San Francisco. VenueRank, simply put, operates somewhat like a “Klout for storefronts,” as it allows brands...
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Yahoo Product Runway: A...

We’re at the Yahoo Product Runway and the company just announced/presented a host of products today. Most are powered by HTML5, and here’s the list: Livestand, IntoNow, Weather, Mail for iPad, Cocktails, CORE and Social Features. Livestand : this news reader is available in the Apple...
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HANDS ON: Does Yahoo’...

Yahoo Livestand Click here to view this gallery. Yahoo has officially launched Livestand, a social newsstand tablet app that presents a new challenge to Flipboard , AOL Editions and other magazine-style apps. Livestand , now available for iPad, lets users consume news and content from...
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Grand Theft Auto 5 trai...

Last week we reported that Rockstar Games website had been replaced with a full splash spage of the Grand Theft Auto 5 logo and a countdown date to the trailer. Well, the day has finally arrived and Rockstar Games has released the official trailer for Grand Theft Auto 5. If you were...
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Yahoo-Backed Hortonwork...

As reported earlier this year, Yahoo and Benchmark Capital announced their backing and Apache Hadoop spin-off Hortonworks . The startup was launched to accelerate the adoption of Apache Hadoop, the open source software that powers the data processing engines of the world’s largest web...
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New Factual Resolve API...

Open data platform Factual.com is launching a new API for developers of location-based services called Resolve . The API is an entity resolution API that makes partial records complete, matches entities against one other and assists in the process of de-duping and normalizing datasets....
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Microsoft Mulls Yahoo B...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today. Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Gaining Momentum Microsoft is working with...
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How Powermat Is Leading...

The Tech Innovators Series is supported by Lenovo . Lenovo does not just manufacture technology. They make Do machines — super-powered creation engines designed to help the people who do, do more, do better, do in brand new ways. What’s worse — your smartphone running...
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