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Coinbase Nabs $5M in Biggest Funding for Bitcoin Startup
— Eleven-month-old startup Coinbase announced Tuesday the largest funding round to date for a Bitcoin startup, a $5 million investment led by Union Square Ventures. … In an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal …
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After Minor Ventures, Ron Palmeri Rebuilds
— Ron Palmeri's stealthy micro-VC firm, MkII Ventures, has made at least three new investments and attracted several new limited partners, including Pacific Partners, SV Angel and Michael Arrington's Crunchfund, VentureWire has learned.
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Piggybackr Gives Kids a Kickstarter of Their Own
— As fans of Girl Scout Cookies can attest, students with little to no entrepreneurial experience are perfectly capable of both fundraising and selling-at least in the analog world. But doing it online proves more of a challenge.
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Ken Coleman Joins Andreessen Horowitz as Special Adviser
— Andreessen Horowitz has named longtime Silicon Valley executive Ken Coleman-a mentor to the firm's co-founder, Ben Horowitz-as a special adviser. … In 1986, Coleman, who was then the head of administration at Silicon Graphics …
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As Google Brings Competition, Evernote Strikes Deal With Deutsche Telekom
— Evernote wants to be everywhere. … The maker of a popular productivity app has partnered with Deutsche Telekom in a deal to offer its premium service free for one year to the German telecommunications company's 59 million customers.
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Enterprise Sector Keeps Booming as Actifio Scores $500M Valuation
— When data storage company Actifio raised its new $50 million Series D round, investors valued the company at roughly $500 million. As high as that valuation was, it could have been even higher.
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Sequoia's Leone: In Venture, Big is the Enemy of Great
— “Complete warfare” is how Sequoia Capital's Douglas Leone sees the contest to stay atop of the venture capital heap. — “The venture model is not broken for the partnerships that know what they're doing,” Leone told …
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VMix Media Reincarnation Givit Aims to Be the Instagram of Online Video
— Greg Kostello was boarding a plan to Las Vegas when he got a text that made his heart stop. — “It was an ‘oh my God’ from my lead engineer along with a link to an article about Flip exiting the business,” …
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).