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Partner Content
On-demand startup in mind? Success depends on these planning factors.

Apple Maps cars hit the road to help build a Google Street View rival

Spotify closes $526M funding round as the fight with Apple intensifies

Ivideon scores $4M from Impulse VC to take its video-streaming service global

Google ties with Microsoft in Microsoft’s own contest for generating image captions

Google introduces location-aware search to answer questions while you’re on the go

Sam the Plumber needs online ads too — and, with a fresh $4.4M, ZypMedia wants to help

Glassdoor: Employees rank Google’s Larry Page as CEO of the year; LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner loses top spot

Pandora should buy Tidal

Preview
Adobe is finally bringing Illustrator’s Artboards to Photoshop

Guest
Do looks really matter for startups? What investors are getting wrong

It’s time for new adventures

Two states want to know if Apple conspired with record labels

Opinion
How the smartwatch will become the center of your digital universe

Ad-free social network Ello is launching on iOS June 18

Intel CEO says ‘it’s not enough’ just to hire diverse candidates

Cloud provider DigitalOcean adds team accounts as company adoption grows

Mozilla responds to Firefox user backlash over Pocket integration

Intel Capital will invest $125M in startups run by women and minorities

Brit+ Co raises $20M from Intel and acquires Snapguide do-it-yourself app

VB Event
MobileBeat Innovation Showcase: call for submissions deadline June 16

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Mobile wallets, smart coupons, and iBeacons: Verve Mobile acquires Fosbury

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Need top tech talent fast? 4 types of companies that can benefit from distributed engineering teams

An Uber car in France was hijacked by angry taxi drivers

Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place

This new mobile app could help prosecute war criminals
eFileCabinet Secures $14M Series B Round, Enables Businesses to Go Paperless

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This new social challenge app wants to take you beyond ice buckets

VB Insight
Brands & mobile advertising: Getting 7X more engagement and 4X more customers
MapR 5.0 Extends Hadoop for New Class of Real-Time Applications
Technology Partners Embrace the MapR 5.0 Platform Providing Data-Driven Security to the Enterprise

With Apple Music, we’ll soon know if Apple’s $3B bet on Jimmy Iovine will pay off

Fetchr just got $11M to take conventional mail to United Arab Emirates

Partner Content
New data on search campaigns shows that consumers connect with feel-good brands

Analysis
Apple Music on Android really isn’t all that surprising
IC Manage Announces BIG DATA Product: Envision Real-Time Design & IP Progress Analytics

Arcadia Data takes $11.5M to sell a business-intelligence tool for Hadoop
