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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

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The company just raised a $5M funding round for its efforts, from Foundry Group and a number of angels. Talk about Nix Hydra, and what the game company is working on? How did the company start? Lina Chen: Nix Hydra makes mobile games for the young female demographic. It was clear there was a missing voice in the industry.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are striving to be the super-mega technology company that owns every layer of the value chain. Computers still need web browsers to power HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many other core web technologies. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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Cojoin | Data Integration

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Businesses deal with countless data points, leading to decisions affecting their companies in various ways. Collecting and analyzing the right data can easily find faults and successes lying within the company’s walls. We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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

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It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Video is the new HTML.” Others are skeptical, “Ha! But I digress. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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