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Minnesota Startup Launches ‘Spark Radio’ iPhone App

Saturday, February 27, 2010

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Is it possible to design a radio app that delivers the ultimate radio experience, complete with visually stunning graphics and social media capabilities, too?  Minneapolis’ own Handcast Media Labs LLC thought so, set out to prove it, and just launched the result on the iTunes App Store a couple of days ago.  It’s called Spark [...]

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MN Tech Rocks – Last Night Was Proof

Saturday, February 6, 2010

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If you weren’t at Minnedemo last night, well, you ain’t….  Seriously, for those few of you players in our Internet/IT community who weren’t there, you missed a damn good one.  I tweeted as I left about 10:30 pm (okay, I admit I tweet from my car) that I thought it was the best ever.  There [...]

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Minnesota Apple Watchers React to Steve Jobs’ Rant

Sunday, January 31, 2010

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So, if you haven’t seen the news Wired broke late Saturday (updated Sunday afternoon) about Steve Jobs going off on Google and Adobe at the Apple all-employee meeting, here it is:  Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs. Here’s an excerpt: “After a big public announcement of the sort [...]

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‘The New Industrial Revolution’ and Minnesota

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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I absolutely love it when my new WIRED magazine shows up in the mail.  Hey, I read as much as the next guy online (on my little 13″ Macbook screen, or my iPhone), but I still love excellence in print — good ol’ ink on dead trees. And WIRED continues to stand out in this [...]

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Alvenda Bags $5 Million in VC

Sunday, January 17, 2010

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Just as we headed into the weekend, day before yesterday, the anticipated news broke that formally identified the Minnesota firm that’s funding local ecommerce technology startup Alvenda.  I had been picking up rumblings of hiring in the suite of offices at 12th and Marquette that Alvenda shares with two other tech firms.  I guess we [...]

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Steve Bendt Interview: A Chat About Windows 7 Social Media and Life at Microsoft

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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Two of the Minnov8 Gang took the opportunity this week to get together with former Twin Citian Steve Bendt.  As you’ll recall, Steve had been a senior social media manager at Best Buy, and a cofounder of its Blue Shirt Nation employee social network, but left earlier this year for a new opportunity with Microsoft [...]

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What’s All This About ‘Moving to the Cloud’? One Minnesota Entrepreneur Can Tell You How

Friday, March 27, 2009

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If you’re in an IT professional or follow developments at all in this field, you’ve undoubtedly been noticing an almost endless amount of media coverage and online discussion lately about “cloud computing”  — one example being a front page story in The Wall Street Journal yesterday.  But, even if you’re just an Internet consumer, you [...]

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Emerging Minnesota Software and Internet Technologies to Take the Stage on February 6

Monday, February 2, 2009

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Entrepreneurs, software developers, and computer professionals of all stripes will be rubbing shoulders again this Friday evening with other hopeful company founders, VCs, angel investors, bloggers, and media people from throughout the Twin Cities and other parts of the Upper Midwest.  They’ll be gathering for what’s become a not-to-be-missed quarterly geek-fest called Minnedemo. Billed as “the [...]

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