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Live from Microsoft’s Windows event

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by on September 30, 2014 at 4:02 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Speculation has been rife as to what the next version of Windows will offer, and finally we’re about to find out. What is the operating system we’ve been calling ‘Threshold‘ really called, what is it like and when can we get our hands on it? Join us as we liveblog from Microsoft’s special event. Please refresh for updates. 11:02 AM:  That’s it folks. I’m going to go try out the early builds of Windows 10. Thanks for following along. 11:01 AM:  Question if Microsoft if Windows updates will now have names that involve big cats. Some lulz. 10:57 AM:  How much of a…

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YC-backed Realm releases its developer-friendly mobile database on Android

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by on September 30, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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Realm has released the Android version of its mobile database solution for developers, which soft-launched on iOS over the summer. The open-source library bucks the trend of cloud-based databases by storing information on your device. Since launching on iOS, Realm has attracted 20,000 developers to its product in just a short few weeks. Apps like Cloth and Breeze have already shipped with Realm inside. The team began development in 2011 and graduated from the Summer ’11 Y Combinator class. Realm claims that its solution reduces the development time of an app by as much as half. Once deployed, the code…

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Why offering employee equity is crucial for your startup

Sep30
by on September 30, 2014 at 3:42 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider, tunein

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Andrej Kiska is an associate at Credo Ventures. Dealing almost exclusively with first time startup founders, we tackle the following question with nearly all of our CEOs: How much equity should they give to the employees? During the first conversation with a given founder about employee equity, it is not uncommon for the CEO to fire back with the following question: Why would I give any equity to my employees? In one instance, I told a CEO that we typically recommend a 15 percent stock options pool at seed/Series A stage. She rolled her eyes in disbelief. When I try to illustrate that this…

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Google unveils Drive for Education with free, unlimited storage and ‘Classroom’ integration

Sep30
by on September 30, 2014 at 3:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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Google Apps for Education just got a little bit sweeter: In the coming weeks, new and existing customers will have access to Drive for Education, an academic version of its online storage solution. Drive for Education follows Drive for Work and boasts unlimited storage, support for individual files up to 5TB in size and automatic encryption. “Every file uploaded to Google Drive is encrypted, not only from your device to Google and in transit between Google data centers, but also at rest on Google servers,” Ben Schrom, PM Google Apps for Education said. The service will be bolstered with Google Apps Vault, a…

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LinkedIn checks its Pulse with refreshed reading experience on desktop and mobile

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by on September 30, 2014 at 3:26 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

LinkedIn has been evolving as a publishing platform in recent years, so when it weighed in with an offer to acquire Pulse last year, this merely served to confirm its intentions to move far beyond that of being a simple social network for business. Pulse was always a fantastic news aggregation service, taking your favorite news feeds and websites and transforming them into an interactive mosaic. A little like Flipboard. Today, ‘LinkedIn Pulse’ represents a major part of LinkedIn’s distribution mechanism, looking at what’s being written by people and then sorting them into channels for easy reading. Now, LinkedIn is…

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