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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

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Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. We''re not using third party services such as Amazon S3, which just adds to your cost.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Competition: Apple iPhone App Store Genius.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. Not Google. That said, Amazon – through AWS – even without strong competition is as wonderful an experience as Amazon the eCommerce retailer feels to you as an online shopper. They came from a different perspective.