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Americas
Mobile Monitoring Station, a team of student entrepreneurs from Chile, won the 9th annual Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley, a global business plan competition. It encourages student
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Americas
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and two of its co-founders, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey, could collectively be worth as much as US$3.7 billion after the company’s IPO. According
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Americas
By Cristian Rennella If we take Facebook, Google or Microsoft as a reference, we are definitely focused on market exceptions. The reality is that less than 1% of
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Asia Pacific
The way mushrooming e-commerce players are running in a mad scramble in India, it appears they’re chasing some kind of pot full of gold. Alas, all that glitters
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Americas
Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that Amy Hood was named Microsoft chief financial officer, succeeding outgoing CFO Peter Klein who will remain at Microsoft through the end of June
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Asia Pacific
To: Mark Zuckerberg, Top boss of Facebook From: Rakesh Raman, a Facebook friend Hi Mark, Hope you’re enjoying the company of Facebook. I’m an old connection on your
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Americas
Living Proof, a technology-based beauty company, has announced the closing of a $30 million financing that will accelerate market expansion of its hair care products, and support the
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Corporate
Mobile phone maker Nokia has agreed to sell and lease back its head office building in Espoo, Finland on a long-term lease to Finland-based Exilion. “We expect to
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Americas
In its first public disclosure after the May 18 IPO, social networking company Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) on Thursday, July 26, reported financial results for the second quarter,
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Asia Pacific
By Rakesh Raman When General Motors (GM) decided to discontinue its advertising on Facebook in May, the leading automaker reinforced the point that Facebook is not yet ripe
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Asia Pacific
Myanmar’s recent political reforms and 2012 election have cast a spotlight on the information and communication technology (ICT) potential of the nation, believes tech market researcher International Data
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CIO Info
Founded in 2005, myThings is a leading global company offering conversion-driven, personalized display advertising solutions. It personalizes over two billion banner impressions a month and operates in 15
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Americas
By Rakesh Raman Those who don’t believe in serendipity or good luck must look at Mark Zuckerberg and his website Facebook to change their belief. Just after its
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Americas
TweetTV, a real-time social TV guide that groups and enhances TV-based conversations happening on Twitter, has raised $750,000 from angel investor Joe Kalfa. TweetTV will use the funds
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Consumer
To drive innovation and business opportunities in Finland’s mobile ecosystem and beyond, Microsoft Corp. and Nokia will each invest up to 9 million euros into a newly established
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