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Last chance to sign up for DiscoveryBeat (via postie)
Dec 6th
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DiscoveryBeat is approaching on Tuesday and I’m glad to report that we’re nearly sold out. When we planned this event, we had no idea we would get such a good response from the apps community. But the event is about solving one of the toughest problems in the social/mobile/gaming ecosystem: how do you [...]
The disappearing office and battling inertia (via postie)
Dec 5th
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Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner:
Answering entrepreneurs most vexing questions â?? Running a start-up means making big decisions every day â?? and never being certain you’ve made the right one. Angel investor Jason Cohen writes of a new place for entrepreneurs to seek advice â?? from each other and industry experts.
What happens [...]
ZeaChem gets $25M from DOE to make fuel from trees (via postie)
Dec 5th
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With the aid of a microbe found in termites and $25 million in DOE grants awarded today, ZeaChem is proposing to build a trial sized biofuels refinery in Boardman, Ore. A hundred and 50 miles east of Portland, on the Columbia river, the Boardman facility would convert poplar hybrid trees into cellulosic ethanol.
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Apple buys Lala. Can any music startup eke out a return for investors? (via postie)
Dec 5th
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So Apple did the deed. It bought streaming music startup Lala.
AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka says it was done at a valuation reflecting Warner Music Group’s writedown earlier this spring, which means investors are lucky to get 50 cents on the dollar. The New York Times also reported that the sale was prompted by realization [...]
SharedDocs helps you build conversations around documents (via postie)
Dec 5th
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We use Google Docs for a lot of our editing and collaboration at VentureBeat, but the lack of commenting features is a real pain — documents can drown in all-caps statements like “WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?” and “DELETE THIS NOW OR YOU’RE FIRED.” So there’s real appeal to a new service called [...]
