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Nutanix Is Tech’s Newest ‘Unicorn,’ Raising Massive $101M Round At $1B Valuation

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Nutanix has reached ‘unicorn’ status in Sillicon Valley in just four years, raising a $101 million Series D funding round Tuesday led by Riverwood Capital and SAP Ventures that values the datacenter...
    






5 Reasons Nest Sold To Google

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The big obsession yesterday was with why Google spent $3.2 billion on startup Nest Labs. But lost in the shuffle of the breathtaking price and lots of questionable speculation about whether this is...
    






Microsoft Just Put These 3 Companies Out Of Business

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Zendesk. Autotask. Freshdesk. These are three great little companies that make three excellent help desk/customer service management applications. But they, like others in this niche, could be in...
    






Even With A Supreme Court Win, Aereo Still Might Lose

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The battle between broadcasters and Aereo, a startup that offers television programming over the internet, will be resolved by the Supreme Court later this year. If the court rules for the networks...
    






Lessons from Zuckerberg and Bloomberg: As Giving Goes Up, Philanthropy Under Fire

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The report by The Chronicle of Philanthropy that the top ten philanthropic gifts in the year past totaled $3.4 billion, and that there were more gifts of $100 million or more in 2013 (15), than in...
    






5 Goals I’m Setting For My Business In 2014

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We’re all guilty of it. We set our resolutions on the 31st of December, jazzed to make progress in our personal and professional lives, and then, by the middle of January, we’re bored. Our goals,...
    






Swatch Group Sales Hit New Record For 2013

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Swatch Group Ltd., the largest Swiss watch business, reports record sales for 2013 and a strong start for 2014. The company on Friday said year-over-year gross sales for 2013 increased 8.3 percent to...
    






Top 13 Startups That Killed It In 2013

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While the year 2013 might already be starting to feel like a distant memory, it certainly gave us some exciting startup companies likely to disrupt the way we look at the world in 2014. Here are...
    






IBM’s Watson supercomputer gets its own business

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IBM "Jeopardy!" champ computer Watson gets its own business unit, NYC headquarters NEW YORK (AP) — One of the most famous "Jeopardy!" champs of all time is moving to Manhattan...