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Docstoc's ExpertCircle Looks To Become The Yelp For Business Services

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Online business resource site Docstoc is in a big expansion of its services today, with the launch of a brand new service to help businesses connect with products and vendors. A key part of ExpertCircle is the peer reviews, from both other users and experts, on different vendors and products in a category. READ MORE>>.

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lynda.com Gets Award For Electric Vehicle Efforts

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Carpinteria-based Lynda.com , which offers up an online learning and education site, has been awarded by the Department of Energy for its sustainability initiatives around plug in vehicles, the company said this week. lynda award electric vehicle education online learning energy' READ MORE>>.

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Lynda.com Inks Massive, $103M Funding Round

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Lynda.com , the online video education provider which has been one of the region's most successful, bootstrapped companies--is no longer bootstrapped, after inking a massive, $103M growth equity round. Lynda.com offers up online education courses on things like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, and much more.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

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We've only been working on the site for May, June, July, and August, and it's a brand new endeavor for us. Andy Wen was the CTO of Christianity.com, and the CTO of early online education firm VCampus, and he also ran the product and web security for eTrade, as well as started a company called Lighthound deals, like a Groupon.

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Interview with Andrew Schydlowsky, TrackStreet: Brand Protection Using AI

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Andrew spoke to us about TrackStreet's brand protection software and artificial intelligence efforts. The partners they have online are also more important, and they're starting to drive a lot more education and brand loyalty. What is TrackStreet? We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

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Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. What we've done, is we attract those writers to our site, and have a revenue model based on the content.

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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen

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We had the chance to speak with William Volk , Chief Creative Officer of Playscreen (www.playscreen.com), who talked how his company is looking to crack the code with Crickler 2: Daily Word Puzzle , which is among the most popular puzzle games on iTunes, and recently number one in free educational games. William Volk: It's hard.

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