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Milk Music is Samsung’s next venture into the music streaming market

Samsung is taking on Apple's iTunes Radio, as well as Pandora, Spotify, and a host of other companies in the competitive streaming music business, but it picked an innocuous name...

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K-Glass is like Google Glass except 30x faster and 3x to 12x longer lasting

Google Glass has been dethroned by its Korean rival, K-Glass which, unlike the already-famous product, uses a built-in augmented reality (AR) processor that only offers its user relevant information regarding...

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Braintree launches Ignition program for startups building on its platform

In October 2012, payments company Braintree set aside $2 million from its Series B to court startups to its platform by waiving the processing fees for the first $50,000 in transactions. At...

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Video game-rental service Gamefly to begin renting out movies as well

Gamefly, the video game rental service provider, has decided to move into Netflix territory by introducing a new movie rental business which ought to prove to be a worthy competitor to Netflix’s...

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Yahoo starts testing app install advertisements across its mobile services

Yahoo has started testing app install advertisements across its mobile services, a move indicate the importance Yahoo is giving to the growing market for mobile apps, and its own demographic, having...

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Knox Payments startup aims to increase the speed of ACH payments

Two Richmond area entrepreneurs launched their online payment technology startup Wednesday in front of an audience of thousands in San Francisco. Thomas Eide and Tommy Nicholas introduced Knox Payments during a...

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Database startup NuoDB raises $14.2 million in funding

NuoDB, the leader in distributed database technology, announced today that it has closed a new round of investment. In addition to existing investors, Dassault Systèmes , the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world...

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OpenX launches first global exchange for bidding on mobile advertising

Ad tech leader OpenX today announced Native O|X, a new ad exchange with an unprecedented combination of several of the most popular trends in the industry: mobile-first, real-time bidding and native advertising. While the...

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IBM and AT&T team up to boost threat protection within the enterprise

AT&T and IBM have announced a security-based partnership to boost threat protection within the enterprise. The prevalence of cyberthreats, with corporations and organizations worldwide often lucrative targets full of valuable, sensitive...

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Former Nokia chief becomes head of Microsoft’s Devices and Studios business

Stephen Elop may not be Microsoft's new CEO, but the former head of Nokia is not going unrewarded for bringing the phone manufacturer into the Microsoft fold. According to an internal...

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Steve Perlman reveals wireless technology he’s been working on for a decade

It was almost three years ago that Steve Perlman began courting controversy by promising something of a wireless technology panacea. A relentless entrepreneur and inventor, he unveiled a prototype called DIDO. The technology would...

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Big data startup BlueTalon is raising $1.5 million from Data Collective

BlueTalon, a big data startup that helps companies analyze information from both internal and external databases on-the-fly, is raising seed funding of $1.5 million from Data Collective. With the new funding, BlueTalon...

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