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Favor Plans Expansion Into San Diego, Gets $13M

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Favor , a on-demand, mobile delivery app developer, said today that it will be expanding into San Diego in the coming months, thanks to a new, $13M funding round. favor diego uber startup delivery hothouse' Favor was part of the SLO HotHouse incubator/accelerator. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Mobile gifting service.

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

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We also have a mobile version of the product, Idrive Lite, which is primarily used to back up contacts. We have over 400 million contacts backed up for our users. Raghu Kulkami: We started our IDRIVE service around 2007, but we had been around before that. How long have you had your product available?

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

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo. So now is the time to step up and embrace what is truly the next iteration in gaming.

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

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack.

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