Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation . Stefan Weitz is a director of search at Microsoft. More and more, people in the search community are seeing a push to move beyond simple keyword-search capabilities and towards a more omniscient search tool. Imagine if, instead of delivering up search results based on the keywords you typed in, your search tool was more of an omniscient oracle that could understand the nuances of both you as a person and as a searcher.
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My Endpoint Protector 1.0.0.3 Category: Utilities Price: Free, Version: 1.0.0.3 ( iTunes ) Description: My Endpoint Protector (My EPP) gives you the power to control and monitor what portable devices (USB Flash Drives, external HDDs, FireWire HDDs, Digital cameras, and many more device types) can be used to copy data to and from your MAC or PC. The My Endpoint Protector App for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch lets you monitor device activity on your protected PCs. My Endpoint Protector is a cloud based solution, where all your networks computers connect to the cloud where you can centrally manage port and device use.
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Jeremy Lewis, chief executive of Big Fish Games , is turning out to be quite the ladies’ man. Lewis’ company continues to target its casual games at women as it announces today a partnership with Woman’s Day magazine. The Seattle casual game company has also locked in game-related partnerships with Harlequin Romance and People.com . Under the deal, Big Fish Games will provide games for WomansDay.com web site visitors. Announced at the Casual Connect game conference in Seattle, the deal gives Big Fish Games access to the audience of Woman’s Day, the fourth-largest magazine in America. The readers of Woman’s Day will have access to Big Fish Games’ catalog of more than 2,500 games. Those titles include casual brands such as Mystery Case Files, Drawn, and Hidden Expedition. More than 2 million games are downloaded each day on Big Fish Games’ web site, and it announced yesterday that more than 1 billion titles have been downloaded since Big Fish Games was started in 2002.
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Wellcore , a maker of mobile personal emergency response systems, has raised $2 million of an expected $3 million in equity and debt.
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FROM GAMERTELL – MTV Networks has bought into the casual gaming craze with the purchase of Social Express Inc, a company whose executives have worked for Zynga, Yahoo and Apple. MORE ? Full Story ? | Written by NEWS for Gadgetell . | Comment on this Article ?
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Tesla Motors ‘ IPO trumped even the most bullish of expectations today, selling 13.3 million shares for $226.1 million and earning a valuation above $2.2 billion . Initially priced at $17 last night, the company’s shares started trading this morning at $19, and hit $23.89 by the time the market closed — an impressive 40.5 percent increase. It’s since increased to $24 during after-hours trading. This is a huge victory for the company, its CEO Elon Musk (who celebrated by ringing the Nasdaq’s opening bell and posing with a Tesla Roadster in Times Square), and its flock of investors. Here’s a quick look at who got what in the sale ( according to S-1 figures ): – The company itself sold 11.9 million shares, reaping $202.3 million – Elon Musk sold 909,212 shares for about $15.5 million – VantagePoint Venture Partners (the first venture capital firm to back Tesla) sold 88,586 shares for $1.5 million – Bay Area Equity Fund sold 88,586 for $1.5 million – Westly Capital Partners sold 72,625 shares for $1.2 million – Compass Venture Partners sold 22,931 shares for $389,827 – Riverwood Capital sold 11,219 shares for $190,723 – Vertical Fund sold 3,156 for $53,652 – Kimbal Musk (Elon Musk’s brother who also sits on Tesla’s board of directors) sold 12,692 shares for $215,764 Other major stakeholders absent from this list, like Daimler, Aabar Investments, Valor Equity Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Sergey Brin and Larry Page didn’t put any of their shares up for offer in the IPO. The question cleantech observers are asking now is whether Tesla’s success will make the public markets friendlier to green companies in general.
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Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation . Brett Brewer is general manager of Microsoft Live Labs, a group of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs working to rapidly generate new Web technologies . The number of elements we all deal with onscreen every day is constantly growing. There’s content, ads, links, feeds, widgets, and on and on. The electronic world is creating a challenge that we all have to deal with — there’s way too much to take in — and user interfaces must evolve to keep up. Statistics guru Edward Tufte was right when he said “information overload is just bad design.” If you present data to users in the right way, they can understand massive amounts of visual information and gain real insights into their data, and even have fun doing it
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CBS is continuing to move forward with its plans to deliver streaming video of its television content in an iPad-friendly HTML5 format, eliminating the networks existing reliance on Adobe’s Flash Player for serving content. In March, we note…
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It’s OK if you don’t know what SIEM — security information and event manager — is. What matters is that SIEM vendors enable companies to centralize, store and make use of large volumes of data created by the computers on their networks. The volume of that data is not only growing, it’s accelerating. AlienVault, which offers both open-source and proprietary SIEM software, was founded in 2007 and has offices in Madrid, Atlanta and San Francisco. The company has announced its first major funding round , a Series A of $4 million led Adara Venture Partners, with additional money coming from Teldat Group and Neotec.
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Here’s the latest action: Twitter goes down — In the wake of rolling out its new Twitter Places geolocation feature, the micro-blogging site went down for several hours .
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