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Entrepreneurial events firm Summit Series acquires Utah’s Powder Mountain ski resort for $40m

The Next Web

In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Bisnow said, “Instead of calling them and trying to get a meeting, I decided to convince them all to come to Utah with me. They helped the health technology company Basis raise its Series A through the Summit community. ’” And come they did.

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What Asia and Facebook’s Free Internet Project Have in Common?

Transformify

Although Mark Zuckerberg’s plea to the tech community to put those without basic Internet service before their interest in "the intellectual purity of technology" might not be completely altruistic, the positive effects of free Internet are tremendous. But some of the new roads and rails are years from completion.

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