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Dwolla?s payment ambitions grow with $5M round
Dwolla has been grabbing attention for its next-generation payment system that bypasses credit card networks and connects directly into bank accounts. It's been on a roll and now investors have lined up behind the start-up, to the tune of $5 million in a Series B round.
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Data without context is dirt
Data, I believe is like plastic. You can use it to make wonderful things. However, like plastic, it can be a great polluter and create havoc on the environment. Or as I like to say, data without context is dirt. 
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Nokia delivers solid Belle update early (and late)
Nokia released the Belle software upgrade for its recent Symbian phones on Tuesday, bringing additional home screens, much improved notifications and other features. The rollout is a day ahead of schedule, showing that Nokia is starting to make good on promises to deliver on time.
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Flingo raises $7m to make your TV smarter
Flingo has raised $7 million in a Series A funding round led by August Capital. The San Francisco-based startup, which integrates streaming video and interactive advertising into smart TVs, has also added two new board members: August Capital?s David Marquart and Howard Hartenbaum.
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IDC: Apple sold most smartphones in Q4, but Samsung wins 2011
Both Apple and Samsung have sold a historic amount of smartphones in the past year, and coming up with a tally of who sold more is harder than you'd think. But The NPD Group says they've done all the number crunching and have a winner.
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Appsfire offers developers an in-app notification inbox
Appsfire, an app discovery platform, is launching a free service called App Booster that allows developers to create a simple two-way inbox inside their apps to help establish a communication channel between developers and users. It's designed to be an easy way to foster in-app engagement.
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Red Hat attacks cloud-app gap
Red Hat says its new POSIX-compliant virtual storage appliance will make it easier for IT shops to move legacy Unix applications to Amazon's public cloud. The scale-out NAS appliance, based on Gluster technology, also replaces Centos with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Need network processing? Solarflare puts it on the card.
Solarflare, the former maker of 10 gigabit Ethernet silicon, has transitioned from making chips to making network adapter cards to speed up the networking capabilities of servers. Now it wants to take that further by doing real-time processing as data comes in from the network.
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Amazon slices S3 storage prices
In its bid to stay the high-volume, low-margin provider of cloud storage, Amazon cut prices on standard S3 storage, according to the Amazon Web Services website. The price changes -- good for the U.S. region -- are retroactive to February 1.
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Ignite raises $5M to become the World of Warcraft of car racing
Ignite Game Technologies, the San Francisco-based online gaming startup that specializes in car racing games, has raised $5 million in new funding, bringing its total investment to $17.5 million. The company makes massive multi-player online racing games in which people compete in real time
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Survey: Weigh in on the Honeywell-Nest lawsuit
Then news that thermostat giant Honeywell has slapped startup Nest with a lawsuit for patent infringement throws an unexpected wrinkle in the landscape of the smart thermostat this year. We ask readers to weigh in on what the lawsuit means for the smart thermostat industry.
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Fisker suspends work on Project Nina, lays off workers
Electric vehicle maker Fisker Automotive announced on Monday that it has halted work on its second electric car called Project Nina at its factory in Delaware, has laid off 26 workers, and is attempting to renegotiate the terms of its loan with the U.S. government.
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JetBlue debuts iPhone app as big travel gets social, mobile savvy
Well-designed websites and snazzy mobile apps aren't just for travel search engines anymore. JetBlue Airways just debuted its own native app for the iPhone, along with a redesigned website. It's a sign of how web startups and new apps are spurring innovation from bigger travel companies.
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CoreMobile wants to cram a lot of apps on one screen
Combine the gargantuan information flows from the web and apps available to us everywhere with the small screen and processing power of a smartphone and you get a pretty evident bottleneck. Startup CoreMobile hopes to solve this with its enterprise software.
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Super Bowl XLVI by the (Twitter) numbers
Twitter is fast becoming the focus group of the 21st century, a status solidified yet again during Sunday night's Super Bowl. The platform saw 453 times the maximum tweets per second it saw during 2008's game, and sentiment analysis of tweets might have predicted the upset.
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When is your Nextel service going kaput? There?s a map for that
It?s no secret that Sprint plans to shut down its iDEN network in 2013, but until recently the details of how it would sunset it were a secret. Over the weekend, new maps appeared on the Sprint website that identify the individual cell sites being decommissioned.
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