As a first time CEO, there were times when I would sit at my desk and think, “What should I be doing today?” This feeling was especially strong after every financing round closed.

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The CEO’s weekly checklist

Bringing new technology into a bureaucratic university environment can be a challenge, but colleges are learning that if they want to attract new students, they need to meet them on familiar ground. This week, Modo Labs , a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup providing open source mobile platforms, said that since its launch last year, its Kurogo platform for building mobile apps has been adopted by more than 200 universities across the country, including Harvard, Boston College and Villanova University

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Modo Labs’ growth shows how colleges are studying Mobile 101

You might have heard, the  Facebook IPO is coming. Some on Wall Street are excited.

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Facebook’s road to IPO: 5 posts you gotta read

Verizon Communications has had a long history of standing up against publishers seeking to subpoena information about its subscribers and their downloading habits, so it’s not a big surprise to see Big Red telling John Wiley’s lawyers to stuff it. Wiley is seeking information on the people behind IP addresses that Wiley says have pirated copies of its popular “For Dummies ” series. According to TorrentFreak , Verizon has argued that the request for subscriber information is flawed for several reasons, including that an IP address may lead to a name, but that name may not be the alleged pirate, and that the request seemed like it was designed to harass subscribers rather than achieve any legitimate legal goal

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Verizon stands up for its users in copyright lawsuit

PayPal’s years of experience in online payments is one of its biggest assets as it chases mobile and in-store transactions.

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PayPal’s key to winning mobile payments: data

The rumormongers are at it again, sticking together mobile operators willy nilly as if this the wireless industry was some giant multi-billion-dollar Mr. Potato Head

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The silly rumors never stop: Now it’s AT&T and Cricket

Box , the cloud storage company that would very much like to be the “Dropbox of the Enterprise” appears headed for an IPO next year.

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Box on the road to an IPO

Boundary CEO Gary Read What if you could know everything about your network? Instead of getting snapshots — albeit very rapid snapshops — you could see the path of every packet and run basic analytics on that stream of data in real time? It’s the difference between watching a Pixar cartoon as opposed to viewing a flip book

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How big data will change networking

Cloning may annoy a lot of people, but it’s profitable and attracts funding accordingly. Berlin’s Rocket Internet is a case in point, with investments constantly pouring in for the many, many properties set up by the Samwer brothers . The latest gossip, which the incubator-cum-accelerator will unsurprisingly not discuss, is that billionaire Leonard Blavatnik has put $200m into Rocket via his Access Industries vehicle.

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Where does Rocket get its money from?

Dennis Crowley, chief executive and co-founder of New York based Foursquare believes that the real opportunity is when we are able to marry the physical and online worlds seamlessly . Slowly and surely we are seeing signs of that marriage happen around us.

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What do sheep, Brazil & Facebook have in common?