Daily Archives: August 21, 2012

After Making Millions, Two 20-Somethings Have Founded A Startup To Help Fight Cancer

August 21, 2012
After Making Millions, Two 20-Somethings Have Founded A Startup To Help Fight Cancer

BusinessWeek Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg have both watched family members suffer from cancer. So when they left Google in June, they started brainstorming ways to help find a cure. Turner and Weinberg aren’t doctors, but they’re engineers with deep pockets. When they were 24, they sold their startup,...

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InstallFree: MS Office in the Cloud, No Installation or Drivers Necessary

August 21, 2012
InstallFree: MS Office in the Cloud, No Installation or Drivers Necessary

Last week, InstallFree released its first virtual office suite, Nexus, a completely browser-based service to gain access to full-fledged versions of Microsoft Office applications. Although the service sounds fantastic in theory, I can’t recommend it unconditionally over other online office solutions. InstallFree, founded in 2006, offers a number of enterprise-level application virtualization services, encapsulating various...

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Coraid delivers its flexible cloud storage vision

August 21, 2012

The race is on to make every part of the data center — from switches to storage arrays — software configurable. That’s the rationale behind Coraid’s new EtherCloud storage platform. For EtherCloud, Coraid  is using Yunteq orchestration technology acquired last October to make its storage more flexible and adaptable to changing needs. Redwood City, CA.-based Coraid’s...

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Social gaming startup Crowdpark filed for insolvency but hope for a ‘favorable outcome’ remains

August 21, 2012
Social gaming startup Crowdpark filed for insolvency but hope for a ‘favorable outcome’ remains

The future for Crowdpark is looking a lot brighter than it did in July when the social gaming startup filed for insolvency, with today’s release of two of its Facebook games on mobile. Pet Vegas Mobile and AnteUp Mobile will enable to company to mix the markets of social gaming, online gambling and mobile...

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As protests continue, Motorola Mobility China president meets with employees

August 21, 2012

The president of Motorola Mobility China has traveled to Nanjing to meet with employees who continue to protest after being let go during a round of layoffs by its new parent company, Google. Protests in Beijing, the nation’s capital, have largely died down, however, as Motorola reports that 90 percent of dismissed employees have...

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Ofcom approves Everything Everywhere’s early UK rollout of 4G services starting September 11

August 21, 2012

We discussed there could be a possibility of 4G services launching in the UK before the end of the year, and now the UK’s communications regulator Ofcom has announced it will allow that to happen, after it approved an application by operator Everything Everywhere to utilise its existing spectrum to roll out 4G services for...

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Why Topic Pages Are The Next Big Thing

August 21, 2012
Why Topic Pages Are The Next Big Thing

Chronological and real-time consumption of content just doesn’t work anymore. It’s time for topic pages to add a layer of organization on top. In last week’s post, 5 Reasons Why Web Publishing is Changing (Again), we explained why online publishing is going through another sea change. One of those reasons was topical organization of...

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‘European Square’ iZettle Now Works With Android; Visa Europe Dispute Drags On

August 21, 2012
‘European Square’ iZettle Now Works With Android; Visa Europe Dispute Drags On

iZettle, the mobile payments startup that wants to be the Square of Europe, today passed an important milestone: the company says its dongle-based card processing system now works with Android devices. This makes iZettle, which in June picked up a $31.4 million round of funding, the first company to commercially offer a plug-and-play, mini chip-card...

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