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Trulia sales beat Wall Street expectations with $20.6M
— The company is maddeningly close to a profit — Well done, Trulia. Well done. In its first quarter as a publicly traded company, Trulia came in with $20.6 million in revenue, up 75% over the same quarter last year.
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Facebook stock takes off, opens up 24% after Q3 results
— Strong mobile traction driving enthusiasm for Facebook shares — After slightly beating Wall Street expectations in its third quarter results Tuesday, Facebook's stock has taken off. — The report sent the stock up 13% …
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Study: 1 in 5 U.S. women are now using Pinterest
— Pew study finds 12% of U.S. adults are now using Pinterest, but nearly 20% of women are on the site — I've gotten hooked on Pinterest. It's the only way to keep track of all the stuff I want. It makes it so easy to keep track …
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SEC moves closer to making crowdfunding a reality
— JOBS Act provisions eases restrictions, up to issuers to make sure investors are accredited — When the JOBS Act was passed back in April, the most talked about part of the new law were its crowdfunding provisions …
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Online real estate firm Trulia files confidential IPO
— Company uses provision in JOBS Act to keep SEC documents private — The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which passed through Congress in April, had many provisions in it that were designed to help small businesses grow.
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Italian regulator set to fine Apple over warranties
— Agency accusing Apple of misleading consumers; Apple already fined in December — When I bought my iPhone, the salesman asked me if I also wanted to buy a two-year warranty from Apple in case anything happened to my phone.
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JustAnswer rebrands as Pearl, raises $25M
— Charles Schwab invests in Quora competitor, which is on track to generate $100M in 2012 — There's tons of question-and-answer services out there. But very few are places where you can find solid advice worth paying for, with the exception of Pearl, formerly known as JustAnswer.
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Tandem raises $32M for second mobile accelerator fund
— Mobile fund seeks to invest $200k in mobile start-ups; applications are being accepted until July 1 — Tandem, a mobile start-up accelerator based in Burlingame, Calif., announced Thursday morning that it's raised $32 million for its second fund.
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Irish software company Openet gets $21M injection
— Japanese NS Solutions leads the fourth round of funding for Openet's 28-country service — The Dublin-born transaction management software Openet has today announced that it completed a Series D round of funding totaling $21 million.
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RockYou purchases game developer Ryzing
— Ryzing is the developer of popular Bingo game; users play with real money for prizes — Online gaming has become so popular that a recent study found that nearly half of smartphone users in the top five European markets play games on their phone.
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.