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RideWithGPS, a Portland startup that makes bicycle route planning tools, lands $3M

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The startup offers a mobile app and web tool to map, analyze, and track rides. It also features a social platform for ride-sharing and stats. based business was co-founded in 2006 by CEO Zack Ham and Cullen King , who teamed up to start the company while in college. The Portland, Ore.-based

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KKR-backed customer feedback company Alchemer acquires Seattle startup Apptentive

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based survey software platform, acquired Apptentive , a Seattle startup that helps mobile app-makers gather customer feedback. Alchemer, founded in 2006 and formerly called SurveyGizmo, gives businesses tools to aggregate and analyze customer and employee feedback. . Apptentive CEO Robi Ganguly. Apptentive Photo).

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Microsoft invests in startup Mistral AI, outlines broader AI principles

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Microsoft President Brad Smith at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Smith said the AI principles build on Microsoft’s “Windows Principles,” which the company outlined in 2006 in an effort to address and move on from longstanding antitrust challenges over its dominant PC operating system. Screenshot via webcast.)

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FlowPlay buys out investors as Seattle gaming startup sees revenue spike 50% amid pandemic

GeekWire

FlowPlay, a 14-year-old company behind social games such as Vegas World and ourWorld , has seen revenue grow 50% this year. Morton, a former exec at GameHouse and RealNetworks, co-founded FlowPlay in 2006 with CTO Doug Pearson , who previously founded and led mobile game studio ThreePenny Software. (FlowPlay Photo).

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Google class action lawsuit claim: Get your share

Dataconomy

People who used Google between October 2006 and September 2013 to do searches and click on search results may be eligible to earn a portion of the $23 million settlement Google has agreed to pay. According to reports, almost 77 million consumers’ personally identifiable information was stolen due to the T-Mobile data breach.

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Being a CIO: One Year Later - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Labels: about me , cio , innovation , mobile. social media. (3).

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Arrington writes: A few years from now we’ll use our mobile devices to help us remember details of people we know, but not well. I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking. Right now there a lot of mobile social networks trying to prove their business model based on ad sales.

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