All stories by Alex
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Relaxation in the Age of Beautiful Noise
They took away our phones, man. My colleague Ken Yeung and I were attending a pre-screening of the just-released Disney ...
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Microsoft releases Lab of Things, a new research platform to support real-world data in the cloud
Today at its Faculty Summit, Microsoft Research introduced the beta of Lab of Things, a new platform from the company that ...
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Gates name-checks Microsoft Bob, calls the former product 'premature' for its time
Today at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Bill Gates mentioned the former Microsoft product 'Bob' in response to a ...
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Nokia's inexpensive Lumia 520 is now the most popular global Window Phone handset
Last week AdDuplex teased that the Nokia Lumia 520 handset had become the most popular Windows Phone handset in the world, ...
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Homejoy takes its on-demand cleaning service to Canada, its first international destination
Today Homejoy announced that it is expanding to Canada, its first international jaunt.
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Austria, Portugal, and the UK win Imagine Cup 2013, taking down $50,000 each
This evening in St. Petersburg Microsoft announced the winning teams of its Imagine Cup student competition. The winning ...
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Ballmer pulls the trigger on Microsoft's massive reorg: Here's the new internal landscape
Today Microsoft has enacted a massive shake-up of its internal leadership structure, shifting divisions across new strata. ...
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Nokia and Microsoft's downmarket strategy validated? Lumia 520 is reportedly the most popular Windows Phone
According to Windows Phone and Windows advertising network AdDuplex – recently flush with $500,000 in funding – the Lumia ...
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Doctor Who's Matt Smith on Nokia, life, Surface RT, and why he doesn't use Twitter
Today at Microsoft's Imagine Cup finals in St. Petersburg, the current Doctor Who, Matt Smith held a short court with the ...
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Inside Imagine Cup, Microsoft’s feeder program for future entrepreneurs
Today at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup finals in St. Petersburg, I caught up with Kurt Steck, current General Manager for Audience ...
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ExitRound, the acquihire engine announces its first exit, 200 buyers, and an 'Industry Council' to advise
When Jacob Mullins launched ExitRound while working under the aegis of Shasta Ventures it was a somewhat impossible fit: ...
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Dispatches from St. Petersburg: The first day of Microsoft's Imagine Cup finals
It's muggy in St. Petersburg, which is excellent luck if you happen to be here and have read Crime and Punishment, as you ...