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Social gaming is expected to be a billion-dollar business this year, according to an eMarketer report released today. Of course, this staggering number isn’t surprising considering the massive growth of both Zynga and Facebook as a platform for social games
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Social Gaming To Be A $1B Market In 2011; Virtual Goods To Bring In $653M
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
A Seattle-area materials science company, M9 Defense , raised $1.4 million in a series A round, a new SEC filing revealed. According to the company’s website: its core product, Boroclave presses, use hydroforming technology to mass-produce ballistic and non-ballistic composites.
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M9 Defense Raises $1.4 Million For Advanced Hydroforming Technology
LaunchBox Digital , a VC firm specializing in angel, seed, and early stage investments, just wrapped up its third annual 12-week startup mentoring program.
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LaunchBox Introduces 7 New Portfolio Companies
Citrix Systems has made a strategic investment in GlassHouse Technologies , a global data center consulting and managed services firm, expanding the existing relationship between the two companies with Citrix becoming a premier desktop virtualization partner of GlassHouse. The investment also provides Citrix with an observer’s seat on the GlassHouse board of directors.
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Citrix Invests In Data Center Consulting Services Firm GlassHouse Technologies
Adknowledge , which bills itself as the operator of the world’s largest privately held Internet advertising network, has raised $45 million in funding, an SEC filing reveals. This isn’t the first time the company has raised a monster round – Adknowledge secured $48 million in funding from Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) back in 2006.
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Wow – Online Advertising Company Adknowledge Raises $45 Million
Earlier today, I posted a simple observation on Twitter. “ Interesting: @att has twice the Twitter followers of @verizonwireless and @verzion – so they have that going for them.
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Make Them Stop: AT&T And Verizon Reps Are Now Fighting With My Tweet Stream
I’ve always been a big advocate of storing things in the cloud. Not just emails and files, but my entire life.
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Why I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud
Over the past several months, there’s been a shift happening in the Bay Area. Whereas a lot of startups used to be centrally located in actual Silicon Valley, near the tech giants, Standford, and the venture capitalists, they’re increasingly moving north, to the city of San Francisco. (Technically, TechCrunch was one of those startups,
Back in July 2009 we wrote about a Y Combinator-funded startup called FlightCaster that looks to help you predict flight delays — before the airline even tells you about them. The service looks at air traffic, weather, and a variety of other factors to predict these delays, and the early warning can be very helpful if you need to book a different flight
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Next Jump Acquires FlightCaster, The Flight Delay Prediction Engine
