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LivingSocial

LivingSocial, the social commerce leader behind LivingSocial Deals and top Facebook applications Visual Bookshelf and Pick Your Five, today announced that it has completed a $25 million Series B round of venture funding led by U.S. Venture Partners. Grotech Ventures and Steve Case’s Revolution LLC are also participating.
With this round of funding, LivingSocial Deals is launching [...]

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Collecta

In a world that demands information, breaking news, and constant updates, sometimes it’s hard to find out what’s really hot. Twitter and Facebook have played a big role in the real-time news experience, sharing trending topics and news feed updates with social recommendation mechanisms built in.
Bigger companies like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have also been dabbling [...]

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NutshellMail Brings Your Social Networks to Email

With all the social networking sites out there, keeping track of all them can sometimes be a bit time consuming. Checking your Facebook news feed or Twitter stream can lead to an unproductive time suck. NutshellMail can help you keep track of everything by sending you a daily digest of all the latest updates via e-mail. It’s like [...]

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Post image for Amulet Devices Offers Voice-Controlled Media

Amulet Devices is on a real mission – to make technology simple to use. While many technology companies make that claim, Amulet Devices seeks to take it to a new level by creating devices that are completely voice controlled:
“We believe that voice is the panacea for control of many types of end-user devices.”
The Dublin-based company [...]

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Foursqaure

Last year at this time, SXSW time that is, the new “big thing” was location-based updates I would see from folks attending who were “checking in” here and there.  As is the case most times at SXSW, people latch on to the next big thing and off it takes.  Over the course of the last [...]

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Google Apps Marketplace Launches

Applications leveraging cloud computing services that are built on top of Google Apps now have a place to be shown off as Google just announced the launch of an Apps Marketplace. The Google Apps Marketplace allows Google Apps customers to easily discover, deploy and manage cloud applications that integrate with Google Apps. Today more than [...]

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Google Labs Public Data Explorer

This is a good week to be a fan of data. The Economist devoted a issue full to data, stating that:
“In recent years Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and SAP between them have spent more than $15 billion on buying software firms specialising in data management and analytics. This industry is estimated to be worth more than $100 [...]

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AnyClip: Searchable, Clipable Movies on the Web

Have you ever wanted to find a movie line online? Or find a particular scene and jump right to it? AnyClip, a New York-based start-up is looking to deliever a product that allows you to do just that. With AnyClip, you’ll be able to re-live any moment from any movie, ever. That’s its mission anyway.
How [...]

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ChallengePost

ChallengePost is very clear about what it is - a marketplace for challenges. It’s all about crowdsourcing at its simplest. Individuals and organizations post challenges and offer cash awards for the best solution. Here’s how the founders of ChallengePost explain the concept:
“Challenges are a successful vehicle for innovation, because they are capital efficient and they capture the public’s [...]

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Post image for Foodspotting: Find & Share Dishes Instead of Places

There are plenty of web services that allow you to search and find restaurants and, more important, reviews about those establishments. The largest ones are probably Yelp and Open Table.  There are also tons of other mobile apps like FourSquare that offer brief reviews as you “check in” at these locations.
But what if you’re not necessarily looking for a [...]

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