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Matt Howard of Norwest Venture Partners predicts that 2012 and 2013 will be Hadoop’s breakout years. Howard gives us insight into the five factors that will accelerate Hadoop’s mainstream adoption over the next 18 months. Read more »

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Logitech, a Swiss maker of peripherals for computers and digital consumer devices, is buying 6-year-old Austin, Texas-based video conferencing device maker LifeSize Communications for $405 million in cash. LifeSize has raised $80 million in funding from Norwest, Austin Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill […] Read more »

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Magazine ad spending has declined for the last five years straight, but an iPhone application platform publicly launched today by Mountain View, Calif.-based NearbyNow may help stem the tide. The company seeks to move magazine advertising to mobile phones, and today showed off iPhone apps built […] Read more »

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Borqs, a Beijing-based startup that develops mobile software for handset makers and mobile carriers using Google’s Android OS, says it’s received $17.4 million in Series B funding from Norwest Venture Partners as an increasing number of devices using the platform are being readied for launch. Some […] Read more »

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Mercora, an early entrant into the social music and music search space that recently rebranded itself as Social.FM, has shut down and suspended operations. After being tipped off by a source, I tried reaching the company’s executives, but haven’t heard from them. The site has gone […] Read more »

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Data center and hosting provider RackSpace Inc., has filed to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering. Its financials seem generally sound (unlike many tech companies it’s actually profitable), although profits did drop by 10 percent in the last year. However, rapid expansion […] Read more »

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Virtual meeting company Unisfair has scored $10 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Norwest Venture Partners after proving that meeting people face-to-face isn’t always necessary or cost effective. As a telecommuter, I’m duty-bound to agree, although I’d rather gouge out my eyes than attend a […] Read more »

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