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Monthly Archives November 2011

Nov
23rd

Accelerators Groom Technology Ventures for Success | PBS NewsHour

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November 22, 2011 – 

The Kauffman Foundation, which studies entrepreneurship, recently found that startups create about 3 million new jobs a year. Hari Sreenivasan reports on efforts to nurture promising companies and bring them to market faster.

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Nov
23rd

InvenSense Celebrates IPO

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November 17, 2011 – 

InvenSense, Inc. (NYSE-Listed INVN), a leading provider of MotionProcessing™ solutions for the consumer electronics market, visited the NYSE. to commemorate the company’s initial public offering. InvenSense began trading on the NYSE on Wed., Nov. 16 under the ticker symbol “INVN.” In honor of the occasion, Steve Nasiri, Founder and CEO, rang The Opening BellSM.

Nov
23rd

Invensense Moving Beyond Wii to Smart Phones

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November 21, 2011 – 

Invensense Moving Beyond Wii to Smart Phones

Nov
23rd

Evernote Selects Parature for Cloud-based Customer Engagement Solution

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November 21, 2011 – 

Parature, a global leader in cloud-based customer engagement software, announced today that Evernote, the company that’s helping the world remember everything, has selected Parature for online customer support to service its worldwide customer base. Continue Reading »

Nov
23rd

Following Partnership with Parature to Offer Dedicated Customer Service, Rosetta Stone Expands Facebook Retail

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November 18, 2011 – 

Rosetta Stone Inc., a leading provider of technology-based language-learning solutions, is pioneering a new social shopping experience as the first language-learning company to launch a storefront on its Facebook(R) page. This venture will allow the company to provide social commerce to its more than 600,000 Facebook fans. Continue Reading »

Nov
23rd

Appcelerator Report: Developers’ Interest is a Catalyst for the Amazon Kindle Fire

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November 16, 2011 – 

Yesterday, Appcelerator and IDC’s Q4 Mobile Developer Report indicated strong developer support for the Amazon Kindle Fire. Developer support is critical, and developer enthusiasm is a catalyst, as the apps drive mobile device adoption and developers make the apps happen. Continue Reading »

Nov
23rd

For A Boost Building Mobile Apps, Web Developers Step On the Appcelerator

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November 22, 2011 – 

Apple’s iPhone and iPad may be the hottest, most stylish gadgets out there—in fact, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has already enshrined the iPad 2 in an exhibit on industrial design. But inside, iOS devices use a programming language that’s truly antiquated. It’s called Objective-C, and it rose to prominence in the late 1980s as the language used by Steve Jobs’ NeXT to build the user interface for the company’s workstations. Continue Reading »