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Memo From Lenovo to Partners: 3 Ways to Accelerate Businessview story

http://www.thevarguy.com – As we prepare for Accelerate 2013 – the Lenovo Channel Partner Forum — many partners have asked what surprises we have in store for the conference (April 29-May 1, Las Vegas). (IT news)

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Kids App Maker Toca Boca Expands With Zinc Roe Acquisition, Sets Up Studio In Torontoview story

http://techcrunch.com – Kids app maker Toca Boca, which operates like a startup out of the 200-year-old Swedish publishing company Bonnier, is making good on its earlier promise that it will soon begin to expand its product portfolio through acquisitions. (IT news)

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Exitround Launches An Anonymous Marketplace Where Startups Can Get Acquiredview story

http://techcrunch.com – AngelList has changed the investment landscape by creating an online space where entrepreneurs can connect with the investors. (IT news)

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As Moveline, The TechStars-Backed Moving App, Expands To New Cities, We Test Out The Serviceview story

http://techcrunch.com – Reports suggest, and I have independently confirmed, that moving is one of the most awful, stressful, painful processes you can experience in a lifetime. Yet the cost of living in NY forces many to move around each year, when their lease expires, popping from place to place. I’ve lived in New York since 2007, and I’ve moved no less than eight times. (IT news)

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After Focusing Mainly On Mobile, FreedomPop Is Now Bringing Freemium WiMAX Internet To Your Homeview story

http://techcrunch.com – FreedomPop has spent the past year trying to turn the wireless industry on its ear with its freemium mobile Internet service, but the Niklas Zennstrom-backed company is now setting its sights on replacing people’s pricey home Internet contracts. (IT news)

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Matter, A For-Profit Media Accelerator Backed By KQED, Knight And PRX, Debuts First Classview story

http://techcrunch.com – Public broadcasters continue to face a lot of pressure as going concerns in the face of bigger overall pressure for the media industry, and like all media companies, they are looking towards a new generation of entrepreneurs for innovation. (IT news)

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Visa Inks $59M+ Deal To Extend Mobile Money Partnership With Monitise In Europeview story

http://techcrunch.com – Visa believes that by 2020 more than half of all payments made in Europe will be done through mobile devices, so it is continuing to put more investment into how it will remain a central part of those transactions. (IT news)

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Looker Takes $2M From First Round And PivotNorth To Build ‘A Sequel To SQL’ For Business Intelligenceview story

http://techcrunch.com – Looker Data Sciences, a business intelligence startup founded by an early lead engineer from Netscape and LiveOps, is today emerging from stealth mode and announcing $2 million in funding from First Round Capital and PivotNorth to build out its business based on a new, easier-to-use approach to SQL called LookML — what it describes as a “sequel to SQL.” Already with 20 companies (IT news)

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Apple’s Tim Cook Met With Beats To Talk About The Company’s New ‘Daisy’ Streaming Music Serviceview story

http://techcrunch.com – Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Beats Electronics CEO Jimmy Iovine in L.A. in late February, according to a report from Reuters today. The news comes just as Beats project “Daisy,” a streaming music service built by Beats, is being spun off as a separate company by the audio electronics maker, with the help of a $60 million investment round. (IT news)

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F-Commerce Startup Soldsie Raises $1 Million For Its Facebook Comments-Based Shopping Platformview story

http://techcrunch.com – E-commerce startup Soldsie, which just announced in January that it had raised $425,000 from 72 investors through FundersClub, has now officially closed its full seed round of $1 million in outside funding. (IT news)