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Office-for-iPad App CloudOn Raises $16 Million in Series B Funding

CloudOn, an application for accessing Microsoft Office applications, Adobe Reader and DropBox on iPads and Android tablets, has raised $16 million in Series B funding today from Social+Capital, TransLink Capital and existing investors Foundation Capital and Rembrandt Venture Partners. The company first launched in January 2012, and claims more than one million downloads in the past five months. The app is currently free, though CloudOn has said it may introduce a tiered pricing structure.

Will Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 Move Put Nokia’s Current Business on Ice?

Already struggling in its transition to Windows-based smartphones, Nokia now has to deal with the fact that current phones can’t be upgraded to the next version of Windows Phone.
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First Windows Phone 8 Devices Coming From Nokia, Huawei, HTC and Samsung

Microsoft didn’t show off any actual Windows Phone 8 hardware on Wednesday, but it did announce who will be the first device makers using the software.
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What We Just Learned About Windows Phone 8

Microsoft’s next phone OS will have a built-in digital wallet, improved multitasking, support for multicore processors and new screen sizes, in addition to its new Windows NT core.
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Enterprise Apps Worth $120 Billion This Year, Gartner Reckons

And even so, growth, thanks to the uncertain global economy, is slower than previously expected.
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Windows Phone “Apollo” Comes in for a Landing

Windows Phone 8 brings the underpinnings of desktop Windows onto a phone for the first time.
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LG’s New Tablet Strategy: Quit While It’s Behind

Who cares about Surface? Not LG. But, then, it doesn’t care much about tablets right now, either.
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A Laptop for a College Student

Walt answers a reader’s question on whether to wait for Windows 8 before buying a college-bound student a laptop.

Microsoft’s Phone Efforts Move Into the Spotlight Wednesday

Microsoft is set to detail Apollo, the next version of Windows Phone, which moves the phone operating system much closer to the one that powers Windows desktops and laptops.
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Viral Video: Remember When Surface Was Just a Big-A*#&d Table?

Those were the days of computing tables that took up the whole room.
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