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Morphlabs Launches Enterprise Cloud Management Platform

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The firm said the new product allows users to use Amazon's EC2 cloud service to deliver enterprise applications over the public cloud. Morphlabs is backed by AO Capital, CSK Venture Capital, Frontera Capital, and Global Gateway Investment Group. READ MORE>>.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too. These are very different.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. Why did Twitter emerge despite Facebook’s dominance?

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. You can really oversubscribe that capital investment, and drive up utilization to something really meaningful, like 80 to 85 percent utilization. We''re really excited to see the storage platform grow pretty substantially.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. Publisher Platform (P3). VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. © Copyright 2012 VentureBeat. All rights reserved.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Yet the number of businesses looking to build on the Facebook platform seems to have increased. They looked unstoppable.