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Google's Bufferbox Move To The Bay Area Didn't Surprise Swapbox, Which Remains Focused On Scalingview story

http://techcrunch.com – Who knew that package delivery would become a hot space, especially when it involves installation of physical lockers? Last week, we uncovered that Google’s recent acquisition, Bufferbox, was planning to invade the San Francisco Bay Area with its shipping service. (IT news)

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Netflix Adds Landing Pages To Feature Original Series Hemlock Grove On Xbox, Web, iPad, PS3, & Wiiview story

http://techcrunch.com – Netflix is quickly building a stable of its own original content, but those programs end up getting lumped in with all the movies and TV series that it’s licensed from other content providers. (IT news)

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Foundation Capital Raises $282M For Seventh Fund, Will Focus Mainly On Early-Stage Investmentsview story

http://techcrunch.com – Foundation Capital is announcing its seventh fund, Foundation Capital Fund VII. The VC firm has raised $282 million in new capital, bringing total capital under management to $2.7 billion over 17 years. (IT news)

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Max Niederhofer Jumps From Accel To Sunstone As A Partner To Focus On The Series A Crunchview story

http://techcrunch.com – In a widely rumored move, serial entrepreneur and investor Max Niederhofer has left his Vice President position at Accel Partners in Europe but not – as some thought – to create another startup, but to join another VC firm. This time, however, he will be a full venture partner with Sunstone Capital working out of Copenhagen. (IT news)

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With Firepad, Firebase Adds Real-Time Text Collaboration To Its App Platformview story

http://techcrunch.com – Y Combinator-backed Firebase is expanding the infrastructure that it offers to app developers with its first module — Firepad, a Google Docs-style text editor that allows you to collaborate with others. To a consumer, that might not sound very exciting. After all, we’ve already got Google Docs. (IT news)

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New KDE Telepathy brings Better Text Editing and Improved Notificationsview story

http://dot.kde.org – Dot Categories: ApplicationsGood news, everyone! Today the KDE Telepathy team released version 0.6.0 of KDE Telepathy (KTp), KDE's instant messaging suite. This version brings a number of new features as well as a large amount of bug fixes. (Software)

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Practice Fusion Launches Doctors Appointment And Reviews Site Patient Fusionview story

http://techcrunch.com – “It’s absurd that people won’t go to a restaurant unless they’ve read reviews but they don’t do that for their healthcare.” That’s why top electronic medical records startup Practice Fusion‘s CEO Ryan Howard said his company built Patient Fusion, a site where you can compare reviews of nearby physicians and book appointments as soon as within an hour (IT news)

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Confirmed: Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley For $69M-$100M To Expand Its Open, Social Education Data Effortsview story

http://techcrunch.com – Educational publisher Elsevier is diving deeper into the world of open and social educational data: it has bought Mendeley, the London/New York-based provider of a platform for academics and organizations to share research and collaborate with others via a social network. The terms of the deal have not been publicly disclosed but we understand it is for a sum between $69 million and $100 million. (IT news)

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Adknowledge Acquires SocialWeekend Labs To Add App Promotion Toolsview story

http://techcrunch.com – Online ad company Adknowledge just announced that it has acquired SocialWeekend Labs, a startup that built tools for developers to promote their apps, and also built its own Facebook and mobile apps (such as Birthdays+ and Photos+). It sounds like Adknowledge is most interested in the startup’s developer tools, as well as its team — the company says it plans to integrate those tools into its (IT news)

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Gentry Underwood, CEO And Co-Founder Of Mailbox, To Speak At Disrupt NYview story

http://techcrunch.com – Mailbox launched to much fanfare earlier this year. Heralded as “the best email management app you’ll ever use“, iOS users virtually lined up to try the app. It was a hit. So much so that Dropbox quickly scooped up the team led by CEO and co-founder Gentry Underwood. (IT news)