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YouMail Gets New Competition: Google

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YouMail offers a voice mail service which allows cell phone users to preview their voicemail messages in email or on the web, convert those voicemails to text, and provide personalized phone greetings to callers, depending on who is calling. All of those features are key features of YouMail's service.

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AudioMicro Gets New, Big Competitor: Getty Images

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Los Angeles-based AudioMicro , the stock audio startup looking to provide music and sound effects, has some new competition this week: Getty Images, through its iStockphoto site. Born told socalTECH that the entry of iStock into the area "validates and expands the market" for micro stock audio. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. -New Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Online radio music service.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus , Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. 406 Ventures.

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Google For Icons | IconFinder Providing The Best for Developers and Designers

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Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux). The public version was launched in 2007 and got on the front page of Digg, on Lifehacker and Smashing magazine.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

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Since its origin as an academic research project in 2007, Eucalyptus has become the dominant open source cloud solution, boasting over 25,000 clouds formed. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. To the casual observer, it may appear that Eucalyptus and RightScale’s respective solutions are competitive.