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Tech Weekly Missive – September 19, 2010

What Tongues are Wagging About Best Buy releases statement over drama of notebook and netbook sales reported on by WSJ When Windows Phone 7 arrives later this year, it will be sold globally, but only for GSM networks. Microsoft has opted to delay until next year the CDMA version as it works to finish work … read more here


Fledgling ventures flock to London for seed funding

London has been crowned Europe’s capital for start-ups by some of the global technology industry’s leading players at a gathering to nurture some of the most promising upcoming entrepreneurial talent. Angel investors, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs from San Francisco, New York, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Tel Aviv and Johannesburg descended on the campus of University College … read more here


Seedcamp Week 2010 winners announced

White smoke is emanating from the entrepreneurial conclave of University College London. The winners of the biggest Seedcamp European startup programme ever have been chosen. Twelve early-stage companies have beaten more than 900 applicants from across the world to €50,000 (£41,800) of investment in return for a minority stake in their fledgling businesses. Without further … read more here


Seedcamp Week 2010: Europe fires up the warp drive for the Enterprise

Seedcamp, the roving pan-European startup programme which seems to have the momentum of a juggernaut these days, kicked off its big week this week in London at University College London with a record number of teams, 23 this year picked from 900 applicants, and over 100 mentors taking to teams from 16 regions throughout EMEA. … read more here


Marketing Technologies Bypass IT

The IT department has been completely bypassed in the area of marketing automation technologies. The combined forces of the Software-as-a-Service deployment model, the role of Salesforce.com as the master data aggregator and integration point, buying habits of marketing departments and cooperative efforts among vendors have created a situation in which IT plays almost no role … read more here


When You Are the Editor

Things have been pretty wild around the headquarters of Flipboard lately. This tiny company (19 employees) launched its first iPad app in July, and so many people wanted to download it that within 20 minutes Flipboard’s servers were maxed out. Engineers scurried around trying to fix the problem, but after 36 hours, the only thing … read more here


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