Archive for January, 2011

Facebook Launches ‘Startup Days’: Monthly Hacker Events For Platform Developers

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As part of the launch of Startup America, a national campaign to “celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship in the U.S.”; Facebook has announced a new initiative called ‘Startup Days.’ Facebook will hold 12 monthly Startup Days in 2011 to “provide early-stage companies with engineering and design support on the Facebook Platform.” These meetings, [...]
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Giveaway: Win A Valentine’s Day Edition Dodocase

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Valentine’s Day is two Mondays away. This means you have about two weeks of procrastination and/or shopping until Sunday, the 13th hits and you’re forced to buy something lame from Sears. Solution: Win this very limited edition iPad Dodocase from us. That way you can either spend more cash on that evening’s festivities or buy Dead Space 2. You’re call. We’re just here [...]
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Google Spent $5.2 Million On Lobbying In 2010; Up 29 Percent From 2009

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Google’s Q4 lobbying spend is in; and the search giant continues to spend more money on influencing policy and lawmakers than in previous years. In the fourth quarter of 2010, Google spent $1.24 million on lobbying, which is up from $1.12 million in the same quarter in 2010. In total, Google spent $5.16 million on lobbying efforts in 2010, which is up from $4 million in 2009. You can find the [...]
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Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship

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Note from the editor: This is a guest post from Aneesh Chopra, United States Chief Technology Officer. During last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama challenged the Nation to out-educate, out-innovate, and out-build our competition to win the future. A critical ingredient in this endeavor is the creative spirit of the American entrepreneur that featured prominently in the President’s [...]
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Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With YC-Funded Conference Directory Lanyrd

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In the same events planning space as Plancast and Upcoming, Y Combinator-funded Lanyrd launches today after this weekend’s game changing news of Yuri Milner and SV Angel’s 150K investment in every Y Combinator startup. An IMDB for conferences, Lanyrd has the ambitious goal of becoming the one stop shop for all conference data by pulling in information from the Twitter accounts that you [...]
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Mixtent Launches to Crack Reputation with Controlled Anonymous Commentary

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I’ve talked to a dozen startups in the last month who are trying again to crack the tricky problem of reducing who you are personally and professionally to a reputation score that can’t be gamed and isn’t just a outlet for trolls and haters. I’m not convinced it can be done, as I argued with Klout’s Joe Fernandez, and beyond that I’m not convinced it should be done. [...]
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Power-One Opens First U.S. Factory To Make Inverters, Turn Renewables To Grid Ready Electricity

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Power-One, Inc. (NASDAQ:PWER) — a large manufacturer of power inverters for the renewable energy industry and provider of software to manage power harvesting and distribution — opened its first North American manufacturing facility in Phoenix today, where they plan to employ 350 people full-time. According to a company press statement, the facility will primarily produce photovoltaic and wind [...]
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LibreDigital Raises $4 Million For Digital Reading Technologies

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Digital publishing company LibreDigital (formerly known as NewsStand, Inc.) has secured $4 million in debt funding, the company announced this morning (an SEC filing shows they had recently raised $1.3 million for the round). LibreDigital last raised money back in May 2010, securing $8 million in funding – its total now stands at roughly $31 million. According to the digital reading pioneer, [...]
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Google Invites Media To Android Honeycomb Event

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As the tablet wars heat up, the newest version of Google’s open-source Android operating system — version 3.0, or Honeycomb — could become a major factor. That new OS, which is optimized for tablets, will be formally unveiled Wednesday at the search giant’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. An invitation from Google, entitled A Taste of What’s New from Android, has [...]
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Android Devices Outsell Nokia’s Symbian Worldwide

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Android smartphone shipments from multiple vendors reached 32.9 million units worldwide in the fourth quarter — topping the 31 million Symbian OS units shipped by former market leader Nokia, Canalys reported Monday. However, Nokia retained its lead as the world’s number-one smartphone vendor with a 28 percent market share. The global smartphone market overall grew 89 percent year over [...]
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