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  Omar Choudhry

  

  Startupfest's inclusivity initiative helped developer reach Crescendo

  montrealgazette.com - Mia Anhoury

  Hundreds of founders of startups and investors attend the annual Startupfest conference to network and attend workshops, but this year, an …

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  Omar Choudhry

  

  Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' email contacts from 1.5M users

  CNET - Steven Musil

  Contacts harvested during new account signups for nearly three years. Facebook "unintentionally" harvested the email contacts of about 1.5 million of its users during the past three years. The activity came to light when a security researcher noticed that Facebook was asking users to enter their …

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  Omar Choudhry

  

  Zoom, the profitable tech unicorn, prices IPO above range

  TechCrunch - Kate Clark

  Zoom, a relatively under-the-radar tech unicorn, has defied expectations with its initial public offering. The video conferencing business priced its IPO above its planned range on Wednesday, confirming plans to sell shares of its Nasdaq stock, titled “ZM,” at $36 apiece, CNBC reports. The company …

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  Omar Choudhry

  

  Microsoft gives 500 patents to startups

  TechCrunch - Frederic Lardinois

  Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its Azure IP Advantage program, which provides its Azure users with protection against patent trolls. This program now also provides customers who are building IoT solutions that connect to Azure with access to 10,000 patents to defend themselves …

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  Omar Choudhry

  

  Adobe announces deeper data sharing partnership with Microsoft around accounts

  TechCrunch - Ron Miller

  Microsoft and Adobe have been building a relationship for some time, and today at Adobe Summit in Las Vegas the two companies announced a deeper integration between the two platforms. It involves sharing Marketo data, the company that Adobe acquired last September for $4.75 billion. Because it’s …

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  Omar Choudhry

  

  Unicorns aren’t profitable, and Wall Street doesn’t care

  TechCrunch - Kate Clark

  In Silicon Valley, investors don’t expect their portfolio companies to be profitable. “Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies,” a bible for founders, instead calls for heavy spending on growth to scale in an Amazon-like fashion. As for Wall Street, it’s shown …

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  Omar Choudhry

  

  Former NEA partner Jon Sakoda takes the wraps off his new, Cisco-backed venture fund, Decibel

  TechCrunch - Connie Loizos

  Jon Sakoda needed to decompress, he says. The founder-turned-venture investor had logged a dozen years with the investing heavyweight New Enterprise Associates after selling his last startup to Symantec in 2006. And what he wanted by last summer was more time with his kids and less time with his …