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In the land of customizable merchandise, the bar is set pretty low. You can get a hankie customized or one of those squeeze balls but what about a $3,000 watch?
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OwnEdition: Customizable Watches For You And Yours
BuyWithMe , the group buying site that competes with Groupon and LivingSocial in the United States, has appointed a new CEO after the former ( Cheryl Rosner ) abruptly left the company last December after only 8 months on the job.
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BuyWithMe, The Other Groupon Rival, Appoints New CEO
Silicon Valley venture firm Greylock Partners is adding a seasoned executive to its enterprise team today with the addition of Frank Slootman as partner.
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Greylock Expands Enterprise Team With Former Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman
Covertix , an Israeli startup that provides enterprise-grade solutions for protecting and monitoring sensitive corporate data, has raised $1 million in early-stage funding. The round was led by Kima Ventures , the investment firm founded by well-known European entrepreneurs Jeremie Berrebi and Xavier Niel . Covertix says the capital will be used to try and gain market share across the European market, expand sales and marketing activities and product development.
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Covertix Raises $1 Million, Helps Companies Secure Sensitive Data
Chicago-based startup FeeFighters ( formerly TransFS ) has raised $1.6 million in new funding led by Sandbox Industries with OCA Ventures, Arizona Bay Technology Partners, 500 Startups, i2a Ventures, Hyde Park Angels and other investors participating. FeeFighters is a comparison shopping site for credit card processors. The startup aims to help merchants save money on credit card fees and also conducts reverse auctions to solicit competing bids from credit card processing companies
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FeeFighters Raises $1.6 Million To Be The BillShrink For Business Services
Short version : part useful application of new technology, part marketing gimmick, the HP eStation is a solid all-in-one printer that uses a wireless Android-powered touchscreen tablet as its primary interface. The printer is about what you’d expect from HP these days, while the tablet presents some interesting new usability options
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CrunchGear Reviews The HP eStation All-In-One Printer With An Android Tablet
BGR just confirmed that all iPhones great and small will soon be getting the Personal Hotspot feature, although the actual implementation will be carrier specific. Considering Verizon’s move to offer the service, however, I suspect AT&T will follow suit almost immediately. Read more…
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Personal Hotspots Coming To All iPhones In March
The Verizon iPhone is a cause for celebration and the conga line starts behind Jon Stewart of The Daily Show . Throw down your lame AT&T iPhone and join in on the fun! Well, on February 10 that is.
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The Daily Show Takes On The Verizon iPhone Announcement (With A Special Dose Of MG!)
Did I say online advertising company Adknowledge raised $45 million in venture capital?
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Hold The Phone – Adknowledge Raises $200 Million, Plans Acquisitions
A lot has been written about Google’s decision to no longer support H.264 HTML5 video playback in Chrome, and we haven’t seen the end of opinions about it (here’s MG’s take ). Make sure you read this one from Tim Sneath, director of the Windows and Silverlight technical evangelism team, though.
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Microsoft Evangelist Brilliantly Slams Google’s Decision To Drop H.264 Support
