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Wednesday, 17th February 2010

Unlaunched Comic Company Buys 10 Year Old Comic Fan Community

Boulder, CO based Graphic.ly has put some of its venture capital to work and rolled up 10-year old comics community iFanboy. Graphic.ly is developing an as-yet unlaunched comic and graphic novel reading application for Windows, Adobe AIR and mobile phones. The company has raised just over $1 million in backing. According to Joseph Tartakoff…

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SXSW Gets Seat-Level Check-Ins With SitBy.Us

Thousands upon thousands of people will be in Austin, Texas next month for the South By Southwest Interactive festival - and several different services will be competing to show you where you can find your friends at the big event. Only one app, though, is focused on displaying your location down to the level of where you are sitting! SitBy.Us is…

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Dilemma: Cloud Computing Is Disrupting Microsoft Office 2010 and its Profit Margins

Microsoft President Stephen Elop says the cloud has created a "constructive disruption," in the market, creating an opportunity to offer Microsoft Office on the Web at no cost. It also looks like the cloud is disrupting Microsoft's pricing structure quite a bit. The issue: cloud computing may be the future but the margins will drop.

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The 5 Most Interesting Things About Google's ReMail Acquisition

Email startup ReMail announced this afternoon that it's been acquired by Google and there's a pretty interesting story behind this cool technology that could inspire future developments in Gmail. The news was announced by ReMail CEO Gabor Cselle on his blog today (we learned about it first via CenterNetworks). Gabor was a former Gmail intern and…

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Limitless VC Contest Merges App Revenue with Venture Funding

We have all been to an event where a 50/50 raffle was taking place to raise money for a particular organization or cause, but what if this same style of fund raising was applied to funding startups? Under30CEO, an online resource for young entrepreneurs, has teamed up with the developers of the BizBreak iPhone app to host the Limitless VC…

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