As prices drop, when’s the best time to buy a new phone?

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As the pace of advances in mobile technology accelerates, waves of new smartphones are appearing every few months.

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Former Best Buy CEO’s “Extremely Close” Relationship With Employee Leads To Boardroom Shakeup

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When former Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned after announcing a dramatic restructuring of the company’s retail operations, it looked like a reaction to the company’s recent financial woes. The timing of Dunn’s resignation provided him with ample cover — his announcement coming just days after Best Buy posted disappointing earnings, and revealed plans to shutter 50 of their big-box locations. Still, that didn’t stop the press from digging around , and it wasn’t long before Best Buy revealed that Dunn left just prior to the completion of an independent investigation of his “extremely close personal relationship” with a female employee.

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One Year Post-Launch, E La Carte Has Put 20,000 Of Its Tablets In 600 Restaurants Worldwide

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It’s been a year since  E la Carte   launched its customized tablet for restaurants , which brings menus, wine lists, nutritional info, play-while-you-wait games, and payment options tableside, and now the company has new numbers to reveal.

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How To Appeal To Investors: Top VCs Reveal The Anatomy Of A Successful Entrepreneur

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There’s a lot of money floating around Silicon Valley right now, and it’s becoming easier and easier for entrepreneurs to get access to the capital they need to get their companies off the ground. Resources like AngelList are trying to level the playing field, and facilitate conversations between founder and investor, and the passage of the JOBS Act will alter the landscape for early-stage companies by giving them access to crowdfunding from the masses

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NTT Docomo Will Pay Up To $300M To Buy Italian Mobile Content Company Buongiorno

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Mobile carrier NTT Docomo today announced a move in its strategy to grow its content business outside of its traditional base of Japan: it issued a tender offer to acquire Buongiorno, a mobile content company based in Italy, paying up to ¥24 billion ($300 million) for the assets. Docomo notes in a statement that the acquisition would be made by its Germany-based subsidiary, Docomo Deutschland, and that Maruo del Rio, Buongiorno’s majority shareholder and chairman with 20 percent of Buongiorno’s stock, has already agreed to sell his stake to the carrier. The deal would see Buongiorno become a subsidiary of NTT Docomo

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Qmerce Brings Brand-Customizable Social Games to Facebook

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With $450K behind it in funding, Israeli-based Qmerce is helping business large and small add social games to their communities, particularly on Facebook.

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Can startups afford to be socially responsible?

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Startups can often barely afford proper office space, marketing budgets or, according to Mark Zuckerberg , even the time to write a business plan. In an always-be-shipping environment, it’s challenging enough to manage the traditional bottom line of profits, let alone the “triple bottom line” of social and environmental impacts.

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How To Raise A $1M Seed Round

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Editor’s note: Sunil Rajaraman is the co-founder and CEO of Scripted.com , a marketplace for businesses to hire freelance writers. Follow him on Twitter @subes01 . When I talk to my friends who are not currently at startups, or the Silicon Valley, the perception is that VCs and individual investors are throwing around investment dollars like drunken sailors.

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Report: Thompson Out, Media Man Levinsohn In As Yahoo’s Interim CEO

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We’re still confirming the news with Yahoo but AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher is reporting that as of tomorrow, Scott Thompson will be leaving his role as CEO of Yahoo, and getting replaced, on an interim basis, by Ross Levinsohn, currently the global media head. Thompson’s position has been mired in controversy since news broke the other week that he had lied about his qualifications — and that situation seemed to be going from bad to worse as the company failed to act on the news in any significant way — and Thompson remained in control.

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Pornterest Vs. Pornstagram Vs. Tumblr’s #NSFW

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Wow,  Pinterest’s porn section  is fairly tame. I was just curious about the type of not-so-mommy-friendly content that might be popping up on what’s now  the third-most popular social network  after Facebook and Twitter. (Also I’m bored).

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