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LivingSocial Experiments With Daily Deals, and It’s Like a Virtual Club Med

Welcome to LivingSocial’s 918 F Street: A virtual Club Med, or a YMCA on steroids.

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Eric Schmidt Backs #waywire, a Media Site for Teens That Is Part Twitter, Part YouTube

The founding team of #waywire includes media executives Nathan Richardson and Sarah Ross and Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker.
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These Start-Ups Aren’t Goofing Off When It Comes to Microsoft’s Kinect

Eleven companies presented today to show off how they plan to use Microsoft’s motion-controlled Kinect accessory for applications beyond gaming.
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A Peek at the Big Fish Streaming Game Service That Scared Apple

Big Fish provided an early look of its streaming game service this week, which it plans to launch this summer on PCs and Android tablets — but not on Apple’s iOS.
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Nintendo Hires Senior Disney Exec to Oversee Digital Games Strategy

Nintendo of America has hired Duncan Orrell-Jones to head up the company’s very important digital strategy for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. Orrell-Jones, who will start July 1, will hold the title of SVP of Nintendo’s Network Business. He will work in Redmond, Wash., and report to the Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime. Most recently, Orrell-Jones was SVP at the Disney Interactive Media Group.

Tech Companies Rejoice! IVP’s New Jumbo Fund Totals $1 Billion.

Silicon Valley’s Institutional Venture Partners is announcing a new fund today, worth $1 billion, that it will be putting toward later-stage technology companies.
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CasaHop Raises $1.2 Million for Home-Swapping Service (Video)

Why not go on vacation in someone else’s home while they stay in yours? CasaHop wants to use Internet algorithms to make those connections happen.
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Among Backers Pumping $6M Into Photo-Editing Start-Up Aviary

Spark Capital, Bezos Expeditions and other strategic investors have poured another $6 million into Aviary, a photo-editing tools company.
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T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm Suddenly Resigns

Two years after taking the difficult job of turning around T-Mobile USA, CEO Philipp Humm has suddenly resigned.
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Battery Ventures Jump-Starts Avalara With $20 Million in Capital

Retailers often have a hard time figuring out how much customers need to pay in sales tax, but with Avalara’s help, they don’t have to worry about it.
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Zynga Taking On EA’s Sims Social With Its Next Game, The Ville

From Zynga Unleashed: A Beefed-Up Cloud and a New Game Network

Zynga Unleashing Several New Games and an Update for Its Playground

PayPal Promotes Execs to Focus on Offline Payments and Credit Services

Ideeli Latest Round Brings Total Raised to Nearly $100 Million

Apps Rule! Wooga No Longer Distributing HTML5 Games on Facebook.

LivingSocial Says It Has No Plans to Be a Mobile Payments Provider

HotelTonight Arrives in London, Just in Time for the Olympics

As Fab.com Hits Year One, It Enters the U.K. Through Acquisition

An E-Reader Revolution for Africa?

Facebook to Pay $10 Million to Charity to Settle Ad Lawsuit

Does Apple’s Passbook App Make Cents?

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