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SXSW Startups: Sceenic Connects Viewers

Austin Startup

Then, when I was running MTV in Latin America but my parents were in London, it was the Volleyball World Championship Final, Poland vs Brazil. But rather than being on a public text chat, the user has an option to “form a private room” and invite friends via a social network or a direct link.

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The Internet Might Kill Us All

Steve Blank

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. While most of the social networks, cloud computing, web and mobile app companies we see today will fail, a few will literally remake our lives.

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It’s a Family (tree) Business: My Herritage Acquires Polish Startup

VC Cafe

Techcrunch broke the news on the acquisition of Poland-based Bliscy.pl Bliscy will help MH increase reach as the acquisition brings MyHeritage family network to 56 million registered users and approximately 762 million profiles, 18 million family trees and 116 million photos. by Israel-based MyHeritage.com.

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