Daily Archives: August 14, 2012

Online music streaming service Deezer begins to roll out across Asia

August 14, 2012
Online music streaming service Deezer begins to roll out across Asia

Online music subscription service Deezer is rolling out across Asia this week, the French company announced today. It will first become available in Thailand, rapidly followed by Singapore and Malaysia, ahead of its upcoming launch in Indonesia and the Philippines within the coming weeks. It is worth noting that Deezer is partnering with mobile carrier dtac on...

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HP Exec Says Microsoft’s Surface Tablet ‘Is Great’ (HPQ)

August 14, 2012
HP Exec Says Microsoft’s Surface Tablet ‘Is Great’ (HPQ)

HP John Solomon See Also Microsoft Is Not A Hardware Novice With The Surface Tablet There’s A Rumor Going Around That Microsoft’s Surface Tablet Will Cost Just $199 Microsoft Not Planning To Sell Its Facebook Shares When The Lock Up Period Ends Next Week HP’s top American sales executive had some surprising things to...

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How Big Data Startups Could Kill A $30 Billion Industry

August 14, 2012
How Big Data Startups Could Kill A $30 Billion Industry

Lightspeed Ventures Ravi Mhatre, Lightspeed Ventures See Also These Are The Apps Silicon Valley’s Rising Stars Use To Survive 10 Tech Skills That Will Instantly Net You A $100,000+ Salary Facebook’s Revolutionary Data Center Was Designed On A Napkin When it comes to big data, “size doesn’t matter,” Ravi Mhatre, managing director of venture...

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In A Silicon Valley Startup Deal, The Coffee Shop You Choose Is Crucial

August 14, 2012
In A Silicon Valley Startup Deal, The Coffee Shop You Choose Is Crucial

Madera You don’t want to be here. See Also Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal In A Key Shift, Pinterest Is Leaving Palo Alto And Moving To San Francisco Key to the Pitch: Make Me Care A very successful entrepreneur who sold his company to an Internet giant just dropped a bit of...

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These Ex-Apple Engineers Are Working On A Stealth Startup To Make Content Creation Easier On The iPad (AAPL)

August 14, 2012
These Ex-Apple Engineers Are Working On A Stealth Startup To Make Content Creation Easier On The iPad (AAPL)

LinkedIn Andy Grignon, cofounder of Quake Labs See Also The Man Behind The Mac OS Is Working On A Mystery Startup With Other Ex-Apple Employees Apple’s Ex-iAd Chief Andy Miller Tells Us About His New Company Ex-Apple Employee: Here Are 5 Things Developers Should Do To Get Apple Interested In Their Apps Andy Grignon...

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RIP Adobe Flash on Android

August 14, 2012

On August 15, Adobe will no longer offer Flash for Android through the Google Play store. Any Android device that does not already have Flash will be unable to download it any longer. It is the end of a very long, difficult road for Adobe as it cedes video on mobile browsers to HTML5....

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How 0xdata wants to help everyone become data scientists

August 14, 2012
How 0xdata wants to help everyone become data scientists

There’s a trend afoot in the big data space to turn data science from black magic into child’s play, and one of the newest companies trying to pull of this technological alchemy is 0xdata. The bootstrapped startup, pronounced “hexadata,” is the brainchild of former DataStax engineer, and Platfora co-founder, SriSatish Ambati, and it’s trying...

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Sure you want to move to San Francisco? This coffee shop’s rules might change your mind

August 14, 2012
Sure you want to move to San Francisco? This coffee shop’s rules might change your mind

San Francisco is a wonderful place for innovation, and the weather isn’t half-bad either when it’s not foggy. Many people joke about the type of folks who live in the Bay Area, and the word “hipster” gets used a lot. I don’t even know what a hipster is, but I’m pretty sure that I’m...

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Freelancers and SMBs – Ballpark is the invoice and CRM app you’ve been waiting for

August 14, 2012
Freelancers and SMBs – Ballpark is the invoice and CRM app you’ve been waiting for

When you already have a pretty incredible app, how do you go about making it better? If you’re Andrew Wilkinson and the MetaLab team, you strip it down and completely rebuild it from the ground up. That’s exactly what MetaLab has done with Ballpark, its small business management suite, and the results are pretty...

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RIM’s Potential Blackberry 10 Licensing Partners: Few & Far Between

August 14, 2012

Research In Motion has nearly finished developing its BlackBerry 10 operating system. New smartphones from the Canadian manufacturer are expected to be released at the beginning of 2013, but they may not be the only Blackberry 10 devices. According to reports, RIM is open to licensing BlackBerry 10 to other manufacturers. Such an move...

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