Last October, Datahug, a ‘business networking automation’ startup, which is also being used by VCs, secured a €2.5 million Series A financing led by European VC DFJ Esprit. But it’s now adding to that pot. We’ve confirmed Salesforce has decided to join that round in an “expansion” of its Series A, which includes original investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson (in the US), DFJ Esprit (UK), Oyster Capital and leading Valley investor Ron Conway. The full A-round is now $ 4m and brings the total raised to $ 5.5M over two rounds.
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Salesforce Joins Datahug’s $4M Series-A, While Valley VCs Love Its ‘Who Knows Who’ Platform
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on May 4, 2013
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Former Groupon COO And Yahoo Exec Rob Solomon Joins Accel As Venture Partner
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on April 30, 2013
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Accel Partners is making a big talent announcement today, with former Groupon COO and Yahoo exec Rob Solomon joining the firm as a venture partner.
Solomon last served as Accel-backed Groupon’s President and COO. As AllThingsD reported, Solomon left the deals company in 2011.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 announced, joins the Android tablet line-up with a 7-inch screen
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on April 29, 2013
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If an 8-inch stylus-enabled Galaxy Tablet wasn’t your cup of tea, perhaps Samsung’s new seven-inch model will do the trick. The Galaxy Tab 3 has gone official and the third iteration of the company’s first Android tablet arrives with a 1.2GHz processor, 8GB or 16GB of storage (with expansion up to 64GB), a 3- and 1.3-megapixel camera array and a substantial 4,000mAh battery. That 7-inch WSVGA (1,024 x 600) TFT display suggests it’s likely to be a keenly-priced slate, although we’re still waiting to hear on specifics. Samsung’s loaded up the Galaxy Tab 3 with Android 4.1 and says that the WiFi version will launch “globally” in May, while an incoming 3G model (no LTE at this point, but it’ll be able to make calls) will follow in June.
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Bill Clinton joins Twitter (for real this time)
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on April 25, 2013
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Having been cajoled to within an inch of his sanity by Stephen Colbert to join Twitter, President Bill Clinton does it for himself. [Read more]
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Google Joins PayPal-Backed Effort to Kill the Password
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on April 24, 2013
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Home Cleaning Service Teddle Raises £255K, Hailo Founder Ron Zeghibe Joins As Non-Exec Chairman
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on April 15, 2013
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Dust off that cheque book. Teddle, the UK startup that lets you easily find and book a home cleaner, has closed a £255,000 (~$ 391k) funding round from a group of entrepreneurs-cum-angel investors, including Open Table founder David Pritchard.
In addition, the Springboard alumni has managed to persuade Hailo founder and chairman Ron Zeghibe to join as non-executive chairman, although I’m told he hasn’t invested, but (as we’d expect) is taking a small amount of equity.
LyX Joins the Google Summer of Code 2013
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on April 14, 2013
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Hamburg writes “LyX joined this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC 2013) as a mentoring organization. The LaTeX based open-source GUI LyX has been accepted to the GSoC for the first time. With LyX one can start using LaTeX without being used to ‘program’ documents. So it’s an important entry point to the (La)TeX world, and a bridge between GUI word processors and LaTeX. This is a great opportunity for its development, now student developers can get financial support for contributing new features: successful contributions will earn a stipend of 5000 USD for the student and 500 USD for the organization, in this case the LyX project, who provides mentors to the students. There are already many project ideas, for example a GUI for editing layouts, a presentation mode, EPUB export, an outliner tool for intuitive writing, retina screen (HiDPI) support, and interactive concurrent editing. Would you like to take part, or do you have further ideas for improvements or features? Send your proposals to the lyx-devel mailing list, or simply comment here, what can be suggested to the LyX mentors.”
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CBS joins Fox in considering subscription-only model
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on April 10, 2013
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CBS CEO Leslie Moonves applauds News Corp. exec’s comments, telling the New York Times that the network was considering cutting its over-the-air signal in the New York area. [Read more]
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PowerKiss joins Power Matters Alliance, plans to expand wireless charging standard in Europe
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on March 18, 2013
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Now might be the time to familiarize yourself with the Power Matters Alliance (PMA). The industry’s most recognizable standard, Qi, is facing serious competition from the PMA, which has garnered support from Duracell Powermat, AT&T, smartphone manufacturers such as BlackBerry and ZTE, and even Starbucks shops, which have begun rolling out its wireless charging tech in certain outlets. Beginning soon, you may be able to charge your compatible smartphone at European McDonald’s restaurants, too — the food service giant’s support comes courtesy of Helsinki-based PowerKiss, which is now ditching Qi in favor of the PMA. The move is arguably the Alliance’s most significant to date, and it could bring confidence to organizations currently considering their own strategies.
It’s unfortunate for consumers who may have recently invested in Qi, however — popular wireless charging spots in major European train stations, for example, will be swapping out their infrastructure to support PMA. According to PowerKiss founder Maija Itkonen, the decision was based on the standard’s new technology that enables individual charging sites to monitor usage trends and control consumption, along with significant support from companies throughout the industry. We’ve even heard speculation that Apple may soon announce support for the PMA standard, though we remain skeptical. Regardless, this is a major blow to Qi, though it could be a significant step forward for consumers — that $ 99 Powermat charging set might seem a more-reasonable acquisition now.
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Lawdingo, The Startup That Lets You Talk To Lawyers Instantly, Joins Y Combinator
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on March 15, 2013
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Lawdingo, a startup that connects users with lawyers for online consultations (sometimes instantly), is announcing that it’s part of the current class of startups at Y Combinator.
I last wrote about Lawdingo in November. You can browse lawyers on the site based on their expertise and location, and if you find one you like, you can schedule an appointment or in some cases hit the “talk now” button. The goal is to make finding a lawyer more convenient and more affordable. (On the affordability side, many of the lawyers on the site offer free consultations, and since you’re choosing from a broad geographic selection, you can probably find lower rates.)
Guns N’ Roses’ Slash joins Angry Birds Space, performs theme song cover
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on March 9, 2013
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Angry Birds Space just got a new cadet, with Rovio announcing a bit ago that Guns N’ Roses’ guitarist Slash has performed a cover of the game’s theme song, and has also been immortalized with his own guitar-wielding Angry Bird character. You can listen to the cover song, hear what Slash has to say on
DNA Sequencing Giant Illumina Joins Hunt for Autism Blood Test
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on March 9, 2013
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Illumina will work with SynapDx’s to find a blood-test that could allow treatment to start earlier.
Massachusetts startup SynapDx announced on Wednesday that it will work with DNA sequencer manufacturer Illumina to develop early detection tools for autism spectrum disorders, according to a release.
Susan Desmond-Hellmann Joins Facebook’s Board, Adding Another Woman Alongside Sandberg
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on March 6, 2013
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Facebook today added a new member to its board of directors, Susan Desmond-Hellman, M.D.. Dr. Hellman currently serves as the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to taking on the chancellorship at UCSF in 2009, Desmond-Hellman served as president of product development at biotech giant Genentech, where she worked for 14 years. Today, she also serves on the board of directors at Procter & Gamble. She completed her clinical training at UCSF and is board-certified in internal medicine and medical oncology; she holds a BS in pre-medicine and a medical degree from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a master’s in public health from the University of California, Berkeley. Desmond-Hellman is now the second woman on Facebook’s current board, alongside Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg. She’s also the second board member from the high realms of academia, alongside University of North Carolina president emeritus Erskine Bowles. The timing of the announcement is likely coincidental, and of course Desmond-Hellman is not defined solely by her gender, but it’s a complementary news item on the same day that Sandberg’s non-profit ‘Lean In‘ organization has officially launched. Lean In is aimed at encouraging women to stay engaged and ambitious in their careers as they build their family lives. The remainder of Facebook’s board includes Mark Zuckerberg, Marc L. Andreessen, James W. Breyer, Donald E. Graham, Reed Hastings, and Peter A. Thiel. Here is the announcement: Facebook announced today that Susan Desmond-Hellmann , M.D., M.P.H., chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been elected to the company’s board of directors. “Sue has a great track record of building and managing a diverse set of organizations, so her insights will be valuable as we continue to expand into new areas,” said Mark Zuckerberg , founder and CEO of Facebook. “Her experience shaping public policy and operating public companies fits well with the rest of the board and will make us an even stronger company.” “I’ve always been drawn to organizations that do ground-breaking work,” said Desmond-Hellmann. “Facebook has an ambitious mission and long-term vision of innovation that is transforming how people connect with one another. I’m proud to be part of a company that is serving such an important purpose in the world.” As UCSF Chancellor, Desmond-Hellmann oversees all aspects of the university and medical center’s strategy and operations. She previously served as president, product development at the biotechnology pioneer,
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Cisco joins top 5 server vendors for the first time, IDC says
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on February 28, 2013
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Cisco Systems has entered the list of the top 5 server vendors for the first time, drawing level with Fujitsu and Oracle in a tie for fourth place, research firm IDC said on Wednesday.
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Sony joins 50x club with HX300, touts smallest 20x zoom WX300
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on February 25, 2013
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Big zooms, high megapixels, and a thin rugged camera round out Sony’s 2013 Cyber-shots. [Read more]
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Microsoft joins list of recently hacked companies
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on February 23, 2013
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Microsoft has disclosed that it recently fell victim to the same type of cyberattack that targeted Apple and Facebook.
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Microsoft Joins Talks To Buy Out Dell Shareholders
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on January 22, 2013
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Microsoft is talking with Dell about financing its buyout. The deal is reported to be worth about $ 2 billion.
For the past few weeks there have been reports that Dell has been in talks with Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm, to buy out the public shareholders. It has been reported that the buyout would be $ 13 to $ 14 per share. CNBC broke the Microsoft news this morning.
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Apple legal chief joins board of ski resort company
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on January 14, 2013
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Apple’s general counsel and senior vice president is now on the board of a company that manages ski resorts around the U.S. [Read more]
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ZTE joins up with Nuance, voice integrated devices will roll out this year
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on January 8, 2013
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Nuance, maker of the popular voice dictation software Dragon Naturally Speaking, has been making itself known today, first announcing this morning at CES that it has bestowed Swype with some new features. The company has followed this up with an announcement that it has entered into a partnership with ZTE, bringing its voice features to
Ray Kurzweil Joins Google As Director of Engineering
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on December 15, 2012
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dgharmon points out with news at CNET and on Ray Kurzweil’s own site that Kurzweil will join Google as Director of Engineering. Specifically, “he will be joining Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing,” which sounds to me like another way to say “quickening the singularity.”
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Ray Kurzweil Joins Google As Engineering Director Focused On Machine Learning And Language Processing Tech
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on December 15, 2012
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Famed inventor, entrepreneur, and futurist Ray Kurzweil announced this afternoon that he has been hired by search engine giant Google as a director of engineering focused on machine learning and language processing. He starts this upcoming Monday, according to a report issued on his website.
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TI joins the Alliance for Wireless Power, tells the WPC it can still be friends
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on December 8, 2012
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It’s not quite a “Dear John” letter, but we’re sure the Wireless Power Consortium is heartbroken all the same. One of its key members, TI, has just signed up for the Alliance for Wireless Power to build cable-free charging on what’s effectively a competing standard. The chip designer doesn’t view the move as abandoning a long-time partner, though — it remains part of the WPC and plans to produce Qi-based wireless power chipsets alongside future A4WP components. Without any related chips to announce, there’s a long wait left before we know how well TI can juggle the two charging formats without appearing to play favorites. We’d recommend that the WPC not grow too attached in the meantime.
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Titan Quest joins the Humble THQ Bundle
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on December 7, 2012
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Holy hashtag! Pope joins the tweeting masses, answering questions on faith
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on December 3, 2012
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Microsoft joins malware, ad teams to fight click fraud
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on November 30, 2012
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Microsoft is linking malicious software analysts with online advertising fraud experts in an effort to disrupt click fraud, a scam where advertisers pay for worthless clicks.
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Deputy Administrator of NHTSA joins Google as Director of Safety for Self-Driving Cars
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on November 20, 2012
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El Goog has been experimenting with autonomous vehicles for a while, and now it’s hiring a government man to help handle the red tape and get them on the roads. Ron Medford will be leaving his job as second in command (Deputy Administrator) at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and joining the search giant in January as the Director of Safety for Self-Driving Cars. Google’s prototype robot chauffeurs have navigated over 300,000 miles of
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M:Metrics Co-Founder Will Hodgman Joins KISSmetrics As CEO
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on November 19, 2012
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Analytics company KISSmetrics has hired a new CEO — Will Hodgman (pictured), who co-founded mobile analytics data startup M:Metrics.
Hodgman and Hiten Shah, the company’s co-founder and previous CEO, met with me last week to explain the move. Hodgman is leaving an executive vice president role at comScore, which acquired M:Metrics in 2008. Since then he’s been building out the company’s presence in Asia. (His M:Metrics co-founder Seamus McAteer recently launched a mobile ad startup called Metaresolver.) He joined the KISSmetrics board in 2010, presumably due to his experience in the analytics field.
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Last.fm, RjDj Founder, Michael Breidenbrücker, Joins Playboard App Discovery Startup 42matters
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on November 6, 2012
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Serial entrepreneur Michael Breidenbrücker — founder of Last.fm and RjDj — is joining the team behind Zurich-based app discover startup, 42matters, maker of the Playboard app for Google’s Play Store. Playboard is a sort of Flipboard for app discovery — powered by algorithms but curated by editors, with personalised recommendations.
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Facebook Joins Linaro Linux-on-ARM Effort
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on November 4, 2012
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dgharmon writes “It has been more than two years since Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson, and Texas Instruments formed a non-profit software company called Linaro to help focus the disparate efforts to get Linux running well on ARM processors and system-on-chip designs. A slew of companies, some new to the ARM racket, have joined the Linaro effort – and as of Thursday afternoon, so has social media juggernaut Facebook.”
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iPad mini joins the posh club with Moshi accessories
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on November 2, 2012
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The folks at Moshi have opened their fashionable doors to the iPad mini this week with several accessories that’ll make your Apple device experience just a bit more fabulous. What we’ve got here are the VersaCover, the Concerti, and the iVisor XT and AG, all made for the protection and further beautification of your iPad
Former Tumblr President John Maloney Joins Storenvy Board
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on November 1, 2012
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After a brief hiatus from any official tech role, former Tumblr president John Maloney will be joining the board of custom store platform Storenvy this week. A combination of a custom storefront builder and an eCommerce discovery platform like Wanelo or TheFancy, Storenvy allows sellers to build their own custom marketplaces and scale those marketplaces as part of the Storenvy network, like this and this.
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Calxeda joins the 64-bit ARM server chip race
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on October 17, 2012
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ARM's efforts to jump from smartphones and tablets to servers received a vote of confidence from chip company Calxeda, which announced it has ramped up efforts to push 64-bit ARM processors into servers by 2014.
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Dell joins the parade of Windows 8 systems
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on October 12, 2012
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The computer maker is announcing that the bulk of its PC lineup will be available with Windows 8, centered on existing systems like the XPS 13 ultrabook and the XPS One 27. [Read more]
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British PM joins Twitter, draws immediate heavy fire
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on October 8, 2012
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David Cameron follows many other politicians in joining Twitter, after previously snubbing the microblogging service before he rose to power. [Read more]
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Europe Joins Forces In Massive Simulated Cyber Attack
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on October 5, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “Hundreds of cyber security experts from across the EU are testing their readiness to combat cyber-attacks in a day-long simulation across Europe today. In Cyber Europe 2012, 400 experts from major financial institutions, telecoms companies, internet service providers and local and national governments across Europe are facing more than 1200 separate cyber incidents (including more than 30 000 emails) during a simulated DDoS campaign. The exercise is testing how they would respond and co-operate in the event of sustained attacks against the public websites and computer systems of major European banks. If real, such an attack would cause massive disruption for millions of citizens and businesses across Europe, and millions of euros of damage to the EU economy.”
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Robot tuna joins Homeland Security arsenal
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on September 21, 2012
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Steve Jobs’ widow joins Stanford governing board
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on September 7, 2012
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Dell joins the ranks of systems pre-configured for VDI
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on September 1, 2012
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Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a rack-mountable pre-configured system to support VDI environments.
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Acronym-loving Samsung joins Intel and TSMC, buys stake in ASML
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on August 27, 2012
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Samsung’s round of cash-flashing continues with a $ 629 million purchase of a three-percent stake in AMSL. It’s joining Intel and TSMC in pumping money into the Dutch business, developing tooling for chip-making machines with Extra Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) designed to “extend Moore’s Law.” It’ll also help reduce the cost of future silicon, since it’ll enable the companies to use wider silicon wafers along the manufacturing line. Given that Samsung’s investment caps of a project to raise nearly $ 5 billion in cash and that AMSL’s home is just five miles west of PSV Eindhoven’s stadium, we just hope they threw in a few home tickets for their trouble.
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IBM Joins the Kenyan IT Party
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on August 14, 2012
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New research lab joins companies in the fast-growing Nairobi tech scene.
Against the backdrop of a rapidly growing tech startup culture in East Africa (see “Kenya’s Startup Boom”), major corporate interest in African innovation continues to grow. Already companies including Google, Microsoft, Nokia, HP, Accenture, Samsung, and Huawei have offices in Nairobi; now IBM is establishing a research lab in the city, its 12th worldwide.
Clutch.io joins Twitter’s Growth and International team
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on August 13, 2012
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Twitter has acquired yet another company, this time buying out Clutch.io. The deal was announced today, with the Clutch.io team saying that they will be joining Twitter’s Growth and International team. They also say that they’re starting work at Twitter immediately, so it seems that Twitter is wasting no time in taking advantage of the
Box CEO And Tech Comedian/Magician Aaron Levie Joins Us At Disrupt
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on August 8, 2012
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Because at this point everybody’s doing it, Box CEO Aaron Levie is going to be at Disrupt SF this September. Levie will be joining the other esteemed and as of yet unannounced speakers on our Enterprise panel.
Seeing as Enterprise is going through a revolution, a “consumerization” if you will, it promises to be a juicy discussion — sexy even.
Square Partners With Starbucks, Raises $25M For Series D; Howard Schultz Joins The Board
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on August 8, 2012
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It might not be the funding announcement we’ve been hearing rumors about but today Square announced that they’ve partnered with Starbucks.
Square will soon begin processing all US credit and debit card transactions for Starbucks across their 7,000 locations this fall. Pay with Square users will be able to find a nearby Starbucks in the Square Directory from their iPhone or Android smartphone. Additionally, Starbucks will be investing $ 25 million in Square for the company’s Series D financing round. Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, will also be joining Square’s Board of Directors.
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Google Ventures Joins DocuSign’s New Funding, Round Grows To $55.7M
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on August 7, 2012
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Looks like electronic signature company DocuSign wasn’t quite finished with its fundraising when its Series D was revealed last month — today it’s announcing a new investor.
The funding was first disclosed through a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, with the company then confirming that it had raised $ 47.5 million in a round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with Kleiner partner Mary Meeker joining the board. Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures, SAP Ventures, and “a large global institutional investor” also participated.
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Lego motorized wheelchair joins Mindstorms NXT alumni (video)
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on August 2, 2012
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It’s been a while since we’ve come across a Lego project that’s on par with a certain Pixar hero or the Rubiks solving robots, but Simon Burfield’s brick-based motorized wheelchair definitely ranks close. He’s cobbled together seven Mindstorm NXT micro-computers (programmed in RobotC), 14 motors, 16 touch sensors and a Technic frame to build a chair capable of carting around 200 pounds of Lego obsessed humanity. As functional as it is, the creator aims to improve the build with wireless control via Android, a task he says should be “very straightforward” over Bluetooth. If you’d like to see the demo in all its noisy glory, check out the video after the break.
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Pinterest Analytics Site PinReach Puts Itself Up For Sale As Co-Founder Joins Google
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on July 23, 2012
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Well, it looks like the market for social media analytics has gotten a little less crowded, for now at least: the Pinterest analytics startup PinReach – which had originally been called PinClout until a cease & desist from Klout forced it to change its name – has just put itself up for sale on Flippa. You can buy it now for $ 10,000, or bid against others to see where you get.
Chris Fay, one of the co-founders, says that the reason for the sale is because he has accepted a position with Google, “and to avoid a conflict of interest my co-founder and I have decided to sell.” Included in the sale is the site’s technology “powering the aggregation and analysis of Pinterest data,” as well as the PinReach brand and domain.
Think Hiring Is Tough In The Valley? Now Europe Joins The Talent Wars
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on July 22, 2012
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Despite some of the froth being blown off following the rocky Facebook IPO, it remains the case that talent and hiring are a big issue in the Valley. And you may not know this, but for a long time Europeans looked onward to the U.S. and thought to the themselves, “Ha! We have plenty of room left for growth! And plenty of talented, educated people! Mwah ha ha ha !” Ok, Ok, let’s leave aside that many of them wouldn’t themselves mind moving to the warm climes of Palo Alto and the rest… Instead, let’s concentrate on what actually happened next. What happened next was a good two, three of years of growth. And, we’ve seem the rise of some significant European originated companies such as Spotify, SoundCloud, Badoo, Fon, Moshi Monsters, Shazam, Wonga, Huddle and the list goes on.
But the honeymoon is definitely over. In the last few weeks and months I’ve been hearing plenty of tales of woe from European entrepreneurs having real problems finding the people they need. It looks suspiciously like the hiring wars have hit Europe, as they have the Valley.
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Microsoft finalizes Yammer buy-out, joins the Office
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on July 19, 2012
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Social network Yammer is now a fully-fledged part of the Redmond family. It’ll sidle up along the company’s Office division, with the team already working on the adoption of Yammer’s standalone service within Microsoft. Check the full (but short) announcement on the company’s official blog — the link’s below.
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Sprint Finally Joins 4G LTE Wireless Race
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on July 17, 2012
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alphadogg writes “Sprint, which has been building up its LTE smartphone lineup this year, Monday finally turned on a 4G LTE network in 15 cities to support those devices. Sprint, which is entering the LTE network race well behind AT&T and Verizon, has initially launched 4G LTE in cities across Georgia, Texas, Missouri and Kansas. Sprint says it will add markets throughout the rest of 2012 and expects to have largely completed its 4G LTE build-out by the end of 2013 (along with enhanced 3G coverage) to address the wireless voice and data needs of 250 million people across the United States. Sprint has some major catching up to do on the 4G LTE network rollout front, though the fact that LTE adoption by customers has been slow at least gives the carrier a bit of breathing room. LTE network demand is expected to surge later this year, assuming Apple rolls out an iPhone 5 with LTE support.”
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