Entrepreneurial activity is on the rise in Brazil and spreading into new industries. Just a few years ago entrepreneurial activity was largely focused on software.
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In an effort to better its mobile transactions, JPMorgan Chase & Co. invested an undisclosed amount in GoPago, a San Francisco-based provider of mobile payment solutions.
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Deploying and managing big data systems such as Hadoop clusters is not easy work, but Infochimps wants to change that with its new Infochimps Platform offering.
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Tonight, Silicon Valley’s heroes gave competition a rest and joined together at the third annual TechFellow Awards to celebrate the spirit of innovation.
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Despite that electric car startup Fisker Automotive has had its fair share of struggles in recent months, we were super excited to head down to Beverly Hills, Calif. this week to get a chance to test drive the Fisker Karma.
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San Francisco may not have intended to be become the startup mecca that it is today, but now the city government is working hard to make itself as friendly as possible to tech entrepreneurs.
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TriVascular raises $7.2 million in venture capital Santa Rosa Press Democrat By STEVE HART Santa Rosa biotech company TriVascular Inc. has raised $7.2 million in fresh venture capital as it runs US clinical trials on a new medical device.
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The flood of news stories on the data-collection and online behavioral advertising (“OBA”) practices of search engines, mobile apps, brand advertisers, and social networks is giving many people a very distinct feeling: the creeps.
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Ping Li, general partner at VC firm Accel Partners, says that big data is so hot, he's seeing three to five new ideas pitched to him per day.. "It's not just the entrepreneurial activity but the inbounds from the broader industry like reporters, analysts, CTOs, CIOs of enterprises.
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An ambitious effort by the cable industry to create unified standards for targeted and interactive television advertising has failed, the victim of competing business interests among its founders and apathy from advertisers.
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Paul Graham has funded so many startups through Y Combinator that he can't go to San Francisco without running into somebody he's given money to.
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A new social class is emerging on the Internet and your place in it depends on your reputation. . In this world, you might be nothing, "but online you might be king," explained Betterworks co-founder Paige Craig, an angel investor in more than 50 companies.
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Every time a dating site succeeds in making a match, it loses two users. To offset churn, Zoosk tells me that tomorrow it’s announcing a new business model that complements subscriptions with date discounts, expert relationship advice, gift ideas, holiday reminders, online scrapbooks.
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How is Pinterest inpsiring you to take action? As Pinterest looks to turn the corner from buzz-worthy startup to mainstream social network, everyone seems to be talking about it.
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Daniel Meade has joined Pomona Capital as an MD in the firm’s New York office. He will focus on Pomona’s business development efforts globally.
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TechStars Boston managing director Katie Rae took the covers off a new professional development initiative called Boston Startup School last night at the Ruby Riot mixer.
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Robert Scoble, a Rackspace employee and massive presence in the tech blogosphere, is also getting involved with an angel investment fund, Dan Lyons of The Daily Beast reports.
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After a four-month search, the $83 billion State of Wisconsin Investment Board named Michael Williamson as its new executive director, sister magazine Buyouts reported today, calling the move the latest in a string of personnel changes at top pension systems, such as those in North Carolina and Connecticut.
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Tableau Software is planning to go public in 2013, Fortune has learned. Here's how the story developed: Yesterday an outside spokesman sent over an unsolicited email, in which he said: "Next week—on the heels of yet another record year of earnings and recently announced plans to add 300 new employees—Tableau Software, which is disrupting the analytics world with an application that turn data into beautiful maps...
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In 1 hour, we will be hosting a Rich Dad Advisor Real Estate Guru Ken McElroy and Darren Weeks a Canadian financial educator who specializes in raising capital.
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Aiming to become one of the giants of online advertising, ad retargeting startup AdRoll has hired Googler Suresh Khanna as its vice president of sales.
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In an ironic turn of events, the fourth largest U.S. carrier T-Mobile is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to halt Verizon’s pending acquisition of additional wireless spectrum currently licensed by some of the nation’s biggest cable companies.
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MS drug developer nets big money.. Receptos, a San Diego-based developer of G protein-coupled receptor therapeutics, has secured $50 million in new VC funding, according to a regulatory filing.
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After raising a $2 million funding round in December, Zipmark, a digital checkbook that allows consumers to send and receive money directly from their checking accounts via web or mobile, has announced the launch of their payment platform for developers.
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The rule of thumb used to be that immigrants founded about 52% of Silicon Valley startups. This is likely no longer the case, the result of tightened visa and naturalization policy since the 9/11 attacks.
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Rapportive, a startup that makes a Gmail add-on that displays social media info about contacts as you email them, confirmed on Wednesday that it had been purchased by LinkedIn.
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After reports earlier this month that LinkedIn was buying contact management service Rapportive, the startup just published a blog post confirming that yes, it has been acquired.
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Physician messaging startup DocBookMD nets $2.2M mobihealthnews At the beginning of the month DocBookMD announced a $2.2 million seed round of funding from a handful of private investors from the healthcare industry.
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Summit Series, the exclusive retreat for entrepreneurs, innovators, and all around big-shots, is raising a big pile of money to buy a mountain, according to multiple sources.
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During the summer of 2009 at the Singularity University, Google co-founder Larry Page challenged a class of 40 students to pick an idea that could impact a billion people.
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There’s a new startup called Tugg unveiling itself today that promises audience members that they can create their own movie screenings at local theaters.
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Sustaining a successful social sharing product with a small array of features is a challenge. For every success story like Pinterest, there are dozens more that have tried to gain traction, and, while possibly succeeding to a small degree, not seeing enough activity to convert into a healthy business.
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