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DealOn Sued Over Group Buying Technology

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DealOn , the developer of white label group buying software which was acquired by Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , has just been sued over patent infringement by group buying site Tippr. another group buying site, over patents held by Kashless. ReachLocal announced its acquisition of New York-based DealOn on February 15th.

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Tapping The Power Of The Crowd For Ideas, Advice and Funding, with JumpStartFund

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It''s a place where people can submit their ideas and patents, and we provide a platform for them to try to find entrepreneurs who would like to work on those patents together with us an the crowd. That gives us access to the patents from those federal labs and universities have. and NASA, as well as universities.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. I think everybody heard about this acquisition. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. TweetPhoto - Real-time photo sharing platform. It’s core platform stuff. Overture sold for $1.6

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Nevolution: Windows App Store Startup Closes $450K Angel Fundraising Round

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A licensed version of the platform will offer large software publishers, content creators and hardware manufacturers a turnkey solution to create their own private-label storefront. Avenue also handles a range of post-acquisition software management chores including installation and ongoing updates.

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CapLinked Teams with Quipa to Protect Business Transactions with Military-Grade Security

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CapLinked’s online platform helps companies manage and close complex business transactions such as asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions. Manage & Close Complex Business Transactions. More Agile & Secure Than Trad VPN technologies. Series A Round.

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Congrats To All The Winners and Thanks To Our Speakers at #REACHNeXT!

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Their patented multi-purpose cleaning formula was recently approved by Boeing to replace toxic solvents. The platform works across messengers, starting with the ubiquitous messenger that exists in 3.2Bn devices: SMS. Founded a series of successful startups resulting in IPOs and acquisitions. IoT: Rufus Labs. Sold it in 2014.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. Communications: Of course comms companies are springing up globally including WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat and the dominant platforms of Facebook & Twitter.