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  Omar Choudhry

  

  Startupfest's inclusivity initiative helped developer reach Crescendo

  montrealgazette.com - Mia Anhoury

  Crescendo found and hired its first employee at Startupfest. Franch will be hosting a workshop at the upcoming conference, but she said this year’s …

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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.

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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 …