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"Final Jeopardy" Question: Would You Buy an E-Book Without an Ending?
Stephen Baker has a great story to tell you. He just won’t tell you how it ends, yet. It’s about IBM’s years-long effort to build a computer smart enough to beat the world’s best “Jeopardy” players....
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Former Apple and PopCap Engineer Launches App to Make iPhone Camera Useful
A new app called VisualList offers a simple but natural extension of the iPhone’s camera, allowing users to organize and remember things by taking a picture of them. Many of us already pull out our...
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Pretty Flipboard Fundraising at an Even Prettier $200 Million Valuation
Flipboard, the high-profile and highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, is out raising another round of funding at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, according to numerous...
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Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. Today, its co-founder and...
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Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential...
According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue has approached Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and co-founder Jack Dorsey about moving off the board of Twitter. It is not...
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Video Shopping Startup Joyus Raises $11.5M in Second Round, Focuses on ROI of...
Joyus, the video shopping platform startup led by former top Google exec Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, said it had raised $11.5 million in a second round of funding, led by InterWest Partners and Time...
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Yahoo's Mayer Has Met with Hulu Execs in a Preliminary Look-See at Premium...
According to numerous sources close to the situation, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently met with top execs at Hulu, the premium video service whose big media company owners have been considering...
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Apps Raise the iPad's Aptitude for Real Work
There’s a popular myth that Apple’s iPad and other tablets are simply media-consumption devices, unsuitable for productivity applications. That’s just not so, and this week I tested a variety of office...
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"Luminary" Access Site IfOnly Officially Launches With $3M in Funding From...
IfOnly, a charitable marketplace for experiences with the top “luminaries” in sports, cooking and entertainment, is officially launching its site after collecting $3 million in funding from a group...
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Exclusive: Flipboard Raises $50 Million More on $800 Million Valuation
According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard has raised $50 million in new funding, in a round led by Rizvi Traverse Management and Goldman Sachs. The new funding puts the valuation of the...
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