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Spotify's Special Projects Head Shakil Khan Moves to Path to Do Same
Shakil Khan, the well-known head of special projects for the popular Spotify music service, is taking a job with the same title at Path, the fast-growing personal social networking start-up. Khan will...
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RIM Employee Stabbed at BlackBerry Party in London Has Died
A Research In Motion employee who was stabbed earlier this week at a London party hosted by the BlackBerry maker died on Sunday. “It is with great sadness that we confirm a BlackBerry employee was the...
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Yammer Makes Its First Acquisition: OneDrum
A little more than a month ago, the social enterprise and collaboration start-up Yammer raised an impressive $85 million funding round at an implied valuation somewhere in the neighborhood of $1...
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Samsung to Announce Next Galaxy at London Event on May 3
Aiming to capitalize on its Olympic partnership, Samsung plans to launch the next version of its flagship Galaxy line of Android products at a May 3 event in London. An invitation being sent to...
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Samsung Puts the Galaxy S III Into Orbit
Aiming to capitalize on its Olympic sponsorship, Samsung is using a London event to launch its next flagship smartphone. The new Galaxy device is set to be unveiled at 7 pm London time (11 am PT)....
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NBC's Olympic Web Video Plan: Live, Legal and "Painful"
Warren Little/Getty Images During the last summer Olympics, NBC wouldn’t show some of the most exciting events live on the Web, because it wanted to protect its ratings for its taped TV highlights....
View ArticleIndex Ventures Raises $442 Million in New Fund
Index Ventures said it had raised 350 million euros ($442 million) in a new sixth venture capital fund, which will be aimed at early-stage investments in the U.S., Israel and Europe. The London-based...
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HotelTonight Arrives in London, Just in Time for the Olympics
HotelTonight is expanding internationally, starting with London — just in time for the Olympics. The San Francisco company, which allows people to book last-minute hotel deals for the same day at steep...
View ArticleNaturalMotion Lands $11 Million to Build Better-Looking Mobile Games
London-based NaturalMotion Games, known for making mobile games with high-end graphics, has raised $11 million from Benchmark Capital. One of the company’s hit titles, My Horse, challenges players to...
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Exclusive: Synacor to Offer TV Everywhere Authentication Via Social IDs
Synacor, the behind-the-scenes tech company that provides authentication services to television companies, will be launching a new identification platform for pay-TV services that will allow users to...
View ArticleFacebook Exec Joanna Shields Departs for Economic Role in London
Joanna Shields, Facebook’s VP and managing director of the social network’s operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa, has left the company to become CEO of Tech City Investment Organisation, a...
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The LeWeb Conference Sold to Reed Midem
Reed Midem, an international trade show organizer, has bought a majority stake in the well-known European Internet conference, LeWeb. The event, which now has two annual gatherings, recently attracted...
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Special Projects Head Shakil Khan Moves on From Path
Shakil Khan — the well-known head of special projects for the popular Spotify music service, who took the same kind of job at Path last year — is departing the personal social networking site. He will...
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U.K. Regulator Is Looking Into Autonomy's Pre-HP Books
Regulators in the U.K. are looking into the finances of the British software firm Autonomy during the years immediately prior to its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, according to a report in The Wall...
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In the Ever-Crowded Online Learning Space, TSL Education Aims at Teacher...
Last week, I had a very erudite meeting with Louise Rogers, who runs one of the fastest growing social networking sites for educators — first in Britain and now operating in about 197 countries...
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Yahoo Acquires Hipster Mobile News Reader Summly for Close to $30 Million
Yahoo has bought Summly, the mobile news reader app founded by a young British entrepreneur. In a statement, the London-based company said it had bought the tiny outfit, which will close its app. The...
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Yahoo Paid $30 Million in Cash for 18 Months of Young Summly Entrepreneur's Time
Earlier today, Yahoo said it had acquired the trendy and decidedly stylish news reading app Summly, along with its telegenic and very young entrepreneur Nick D’Aloisio. Yahoo said it plans to close...
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HP CEO Whitman Tries Not to Talk About Autonomy in London
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman was in London today ostensibly to talk about Project Moonshot, the new class of servers that HP hopes will contribute meaningfully to its promised turnaround. But the...
View ArticleBuddyBet Raises $3 Million to Work on Real-Money Online Social Gaming
BuddyBet, a London-based startup launched late last year, announced Tuesday that it had secured $3 million in venture capital. The company allows online players to bet against one another on sports or...
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Huawei to Have a London Mobile Launch Event Two Days Before Samsung
Talk about a fast follower. Huawei said on Tuesday that it will have a mobile event on June 18 in London. That’s just two days before the London event that Samsung recently announced. The invite is...
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Box On Track to Book More Than $100 Million in Sales This Year, CEO Levie Says
Box CEO Aaron Levie was in a chatty mood over lunch following his appearance at D: All Things Digital with Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers earlier today. With Box quickly turning into one of the most...
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HP's Autonomy Sells Off Stake in Video Search Company Blinkx
Here’s a name from the Internet’s distant past that I hadn’t thought about in awhile: The video search engine Blinkx. Did you know that IT giant Hewlett-Packard ended up owning a big piece of it?...
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Finally! Usain Bolt Is Now a Playable Character in Temple Run 2.
Usain Bolt should be a unlockable character on Temple Run. — 9GAG (@9GAG) July 24, 2013 Nick J Webb / FlickrIt’s a match made in sports-branding heaven on the App Store: The so-called “fastest man on...
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Okta's $27 Million Series D Comes as Europe and Asia Embrace the Cloud
Last week, Okta, the fast-growing identity management company, raised a $27.5 million Series D round of venture capital funding led by Sequoia Capital. The round — in which prior investors Andreessen...
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AOL's Sullivan to Take Over Its Homepage Business
AOL’s longtime marketing exec Maureen Sullivan has been given purview over its highly trafficked main homepage, part of an effort to reinvigorate core products, such as AOL.com. The latest reports by...
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