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Morph - a nanotechnology concept device launched by Nokia and U of Cambridge

Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes. It demonstrates the more...
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Getty Images Is Selling To PE Firm Hellman & Friedman For $2.4 Billion

Selling itself for a 39% premium over its Friday stock price, Getty, based in Seattle, was founded in 1995, has grown through a series of acquisitions...it says it has 4 million monthly unique visitors more...
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Totally Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

Chris Anderson brings a fascinating account of how businesses have evolved over the ages, starting with the story of Gillette to where it is going now - towards free services and new models of monetizing more...
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Startup provides Venture Capital Wear

Josh Kopelman, Managing Director of First Round Capital shares this funny one about a company that provides speciality wear for VCs - check out their site for really funny T-shirts that say what the VCs more...
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Gotta move south in California for VC opps

Sumant Mandal who is managing director at Clearstone Venture Partners in Santa Monica, says that SoCal is brimming with opportunities and growth for VC investment and with 1.10 billion invested over 66 more...
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Stanford camera chip can see in 3D

Oooh this is exciting and overdue - Stanford researchers Keith Fife and his colleagues have developed technology called a multi-aperture image sensor that sees things differently than the light detectors more...
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Om Malik on Scribd’s iPaper Plan

Dubbed the "YouTube of Documents", this 10-person startup that raised close to $5 million in funding from Redpoint Ventures has done with its new viewer called iPaper. Om Malik raves about the idea and more...
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Investor coalition pledges $10 billion for 'CleanTech'

Over the next 2 years, $10 Billion has been pledged by the Ceres coalition includes institutional investors, a number of environmental and sustainable development lobby groups as well corporate representation more...
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Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche

Marshall Kirkpatrick compares 6 ways (with pros and cons) of identifying the best blogs in any area: Technorati, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Google Reader Recommendations, AideRSS, Ask.com Blogsearch. Have more...
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Troubled Revver is acquired amid spike in interest

Greenspan to the rescue. No, really. LiveUniverse, owned by MySpace.com co-founder Brad Greenspan is acquiring the troubled video sharing / aggregating site Revver and its employees breathed a big sigh more...
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