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Nintendo Records First Ever Annual Loss Of $531 Million

Today Nintendo released its earnings report for the past fiscal year, revealing that the company…

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Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, And Others Chart The Demise of Mass Marketing

Let's face it, the primary reason you go to a conference named The Art of…

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Google Was Planning This (Never-Released) Smartphone A Year Before The iPhone

According to documents associated with Oracle's intellectual property case against Google, the latter company was…

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DITTO Grabs $3M For Augmented-Reality Shopping

Eyeglasses startup Ditto Inc. has closed a $3M first funding round led by August Capital…

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“Descriptive Camera” Prints Description, Not Photo

An NYU student created an unusual camera that outputs text, not photos, to describe the…

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Apple’s WWDC Is Sold Out, But You Can Still Get In On The Action

Yesterday, tickets for Apple's 2012 annual developers conference WWDC went on sale and sold out…

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Do You Still Own Stuff You Upload To Google Drive?

Fresh on the heels of Google's Dropbox-like remote storage service, Google Drive, is a furor…

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Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 Announces U.S. Finalists

This past weekend, Microsoft announced the U.S. finalists of its annual Imagine Cup, where high school…

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April Technori Pitch: Mineful, RecSpon, NoRedInk, MobCart, and StyleSeek

Technori is a monthly platform for Chicago startups to publicly showcase their service. This month…

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SingleHop Snags $27.5 Million Investment To Expand Hosting Services

Chicago startup scene darling SingleHop, which provides web-hosting services for small businesses, has completed its…

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Entrepreneurs, Advocates, Politicians Circle The Wagons Against CISPA

A diverse, growing group of entrepreneurs, privacy and security advocates, and high-level politicians are voicing…

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Excelerate Labs Chooses 10 Startups

Excelerate Labs, a Chicago-based startup accelerator, has gone global this year with its selection of…

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Wireless Providers: Asking For Warrants Would Be Too Much Work

Earlier this month, I wrote about research by the ACLU that found in many cases,…

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10 Greatest Startup Failures Of All Time

Not every startup is destined to generate a billion dollar payout. Here are some of…

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Google Drive: Watch Out Dropbox

On Tuesday, Google confirmed rumors that the company has been working on an online storage…