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Pinterest makes its first clone acquisition

Some eight months after raising a hefty $100 million in funding, Pinterest has made its very first acquisition: Punchfork, which Read More

Leap Motion partners with Asus, announces new funding

In anticipation of the release of its first product, the Leap Motion controller, later this year, motion-control software company Leap Motion made Read More

2012 IPOs see most money raised since 2000

So I have good news and bad news. The good news is that 2012 was a huge year for IPOs, Read More

Amazon third-party sellers saw 40% increase in sales

We already know that Amazon had its best holiday season ever in 2012, selling selling 306 items per second at its Read More

Fandango mobile ticket sales up 171% in 2012

I don't know what I would do without Fandango. I honestly don't. Where I live right now, the closest movie Read More

Avis purchases Zipcar for $500 million cash

Car rental company Avis is set to purchase care sharing service Zipcar for around $500 million, it was announced Wednesday. Read More

Spotify 2012: what the world was listening to

2012 was a big year for the music streaming industry. A number of big companies, including Nokia, Microsoft and Apple, Read More

Dave Samuel on Freestyle’s funding philosophy

Dave Samuel recently sat down with Bambi Francisco to share his views on the startup landscape and what he and Read More

Social media predictions for 2013

Some of the biggest social media stories that took place in 2012 included the rise of Pinterest and the Facebook IPO, but Read More

Reed Hastings’ salary to go up fourfold in 2013

Fresh on the heels of acquiring exclusive pay TV rights to Disney titles, Netflix has announced that it will be quadrupling Read More

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