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Is 2013 Year Of The MOOC?

What kind of credit should be given a student half a world away, one who never set foot on the campus and who experienced school as a mix of self-guided instruction, “personalized” online classes and...

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Aveksa Adds SSO Capabilities to Cloud Identity and Access Management Platform

Cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) platform provider Aveksa, Inc. has added Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities to MyAccessLive, Aveksa’s cloud-based identity and access management...

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Robot news curator NewsCred launches human editorial team

NewsCred, a tech-intensive news aggregator, is an up-and-coming player in the media industry thanks to licensing agreements with elite publishers like the Economist and Bloomberg. The company relies on...

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5 Ways Agents and Carriers Can Partner Using Predictive Analytics

Imagine being able to take the lead in the battle to retain your best customers by predicting the future, and working with your carriers to price risks more accurately. For carriers and independent...

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Site Unseen: More ‘Angels’ Invest via Internet

After Adam Winter read about a roving teleconferencing robot, he got a hunch that the $2,000 gadget might become the next big thing. So the 38-year-old technology consultant from Columbus, Ohio, sat...

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Grand Cru, LogMyCalls, MortarData and TraceLink Named Winners of the Sixth...

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (AMZN), today announced the winners of the sixth AWS Global Start-Up Challenge. Grand Cru, LogMyCalls, MortarData and TraceLink were each awarded...

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Managing Risk Beyond The Limits Of Excel

If you want to launch a $1 billion quant hedge fund, you’ll need better risk management than Excel. “Increasingly we have found that investors in hedge funds have increased their scrutiny of the...

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Schoology Releases SIS Integration Platform and Sponsors $250,000 Open SIS...

Back in September 2012, ProgrammableWeb reported that Schoology had launched the Schoology App Center which features third-party applications built with the Schoology API and developer platform. To...

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Pinterest, One Of The Web’s Most Iconic Designs, Tries A New Look

Don’t worry, Pinterest isn’t ditching the grid-style “Masonry” design it’s known and cloned for. But today Pinterest announced tests of a new navigation system, bigger images, and more related content...

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The Internet Video Boom Has Arrived

After much early excitement, New York City’s venture investment community has been steadily growing and diversifying along with the startups it’s betting on. A New York City-based venture shop that has...

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SecondMarket’s 2012 Year in Review Report

2012 marked a significant shift in the minds of startup founders and their management teams when thinking strategically about PLPs. At SecondMarket, we worked with more private companies in 2012 than...

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Brain game company Lumosity earned $24M in revenue in 2012, now reaches 35M...

If you get too distracted to read this story the whole way through, perhaps you should consider joining the millions of people train their brains with Lumosity. On Thursday, the San Francisco-based...

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Employees Made Up Nearly Two-Thirds Of Private Stock Sellers on SecondMarket...

As companies have stayed private for longer, CEOs and founders have gotten savvier about letting early employees liquidate or diversify their holdings in their companies. With several of the heavily...

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EMA Radar Report Identifies AppFirst As Value Leader In Advanced Performance...

Company Named Value Leader for Business Impact Management; Top of Vendor Pack in Leveraging the Cloud for Analyzing Critical Data for Business Outcomes AppFirst, the leading provider of SaaS-based...

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Aereo Expansion Could Signal Major Shift in Television

A revolution is underway in the battle for your living room. Referred to as cutting the cord, more people are switching from subscription cable and satellite TV to streaming services, also called...

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TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud Named Amazon AWS Grand Prize Winner for...

Wakefield, MA – TraceLink Inc. announced today that the TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud won the Grand Prize in the Amazon.com 6th AWS Start-Up Challenge. TraceLink’s cloud-based application platform,...

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Inside Aereo: new photos of the tech that’s changing how we watch TV

Brooklyn-based Aereo lets subscribers watch and record over-the-air TV anywhere they go on computers, iPhones or iPads. The service is available for now in New York City but will soon be unveiled in...

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Pinterest for Android gets better for groups

Community scrapbookers, rejoice. Pinterest today improved the groups experience for its Android app users. Launched in 2010, Pinterest is a collector’s refuge for saving fashion, decor, and recipe...

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Aereo Amps Up Marketing Efforts Before Expanding To New Cities, Hires Former...

Aereo has been making headlines lately, not only for expanding its streaming cloud DVR service to 22 new markets in the coming months, but for being in active litigation with some of the nation’s...

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Fast Company Magazine’s Most Innovative Companies for 2013: AHAlife

“Ninety-nine percent of the overall luxury industry is offline,” says Ahalife founder Shauna Mei. Why? “To avoid [their goods landing on] flash-sale sites.” Mei, 30, an MIT grad who’s an expert in...

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