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Forecast: Cloud subscriptions skyrocket

As businesses move farther into the online realm it isn't only about engaging consumers to buy products.

 The online space is also proving to be a lucrative addition to business infrastructure like the storage of documents, employee training materials and ways for remote workers to stay in touch with the home office. According to data from Qumu, more businesses will head into the cloud in the coming months, looking for more affordable storage as well as to meet employee training goals. New data out...
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Source: GigaOm

Redbox wants to start streaming before Santa comes
Kabam Inc., the maker of Facebook Inc. (FB) games such as “Kingdoms of Camelot,” may hold an initial public offering as soon as next year as it tries to avoid rival developer Zynga Inc. (ZNGA)’s over-dependence on the social network. “An IPO is a great outcome for a sustainable, attractive, growing business,” Chief Executive Officer Kevin Chou said in an interview, adding that the...
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Source: USA Today

LeapFrog, iPad tablets top hot holiday toy lists
Tablets for tots will likely top wish lists this holiday season, though availability could be the problem it is every year for hot toys. Toys R Us released its hot toy list Wednesday, and Kmart's is out Thursday. The lists offer parents a chance to get a jump on the search for the...
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Source: Business Insider

The 10 Most Disruptive Enterprise Tech Companies
Enterprise technology is in the middle of a massive transformation caused by major technological shifts: Mobile cell phone networks are getting faster. Cloud computing has put unlimited computing power into the hands of everyone at very low costs....
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Source: GigaOm

Slowly and steadily, Vimeo hits its growth stride
When it comes to online video, there are three companies that dominate the conversation – YouTube, Netflix and Hulu. But don’t overlook, IAC-owned Vimeo, the single most interesting video platform. A little boost from friends like Apple and Kickstarter, and suddenly...
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Source: AdAge

Fortune Introduces 'Freemium' App Edition
Fortune is introducing today a new iPad edition that presents readers with a visually appealing mix of free and paid content, an effort to make the app worth swiping through even if you're not a subscriber. Fortune's iPad app, like those of most magazines, had previously opened to a storefront -- offering nothing to see until you open your wallet or show...
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Source: MarketWatch

TuneUp Media Launches Lyrics Into Its Popular Music Organizing App
TuneUp Media, the publisher of the #1 companion app for iTunes, today announced the immediate availability of Lyrics. Real-time lyrics is a welcome enhancement to TuneUp's robust "infotainment" feature, Tuniverse(TM), and allows music fans worldwide to enjoy...
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Source: GigaOm

BenchPrep shifts to subscription model for interactive online courses
BenchPrep, a Chicago-based startup that offers interactive online courses for test preparation, is moving to a subscription-based business model, which could help it better access institutional customers, such as universities, community colleges and public libraries. Hoping to make its online learning platform a stickier place for students, interactive course startup BenchPrep is moving to a subscription model....
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Source: Bloomberg

Kabam Weighs IPO as Game Maker Expands Beyond Facebook
Kabam Inc., the maker of Facebook Inc. (FB) games such as “Kingdoms of Camelot,” may hold an initial public offering as soon as next year as it tries to avoid rival developer Zynga Inc. (ZNGA)’s over-dependence on the social network. “An IPO is a great outcome for a sustainable, attractive, growing business,” Chief Executive Officer Kevin Chou said in an interview, adding that the...
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Source: GamesCatalyst

Is the future of videogames freemium?
A shift is happening in the way we pay for and consume games. For as long as the games industry has existed, it has followed the same model – cash up front for a complete product – but over the last couple of...
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Source: ArsTechnica

Rdio will pay musicians $10 per new signup
Startup to incentivize skeptical, revenue-starved artists to push product. While online music fans have lots of great streaming options out there (Spotify, Rdio, Pandora, and others), musicians are often less excited about...
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Source: Xconomy

Subscription Service Love With Food Helps Gourmets Discover New Treats
When Aihui Ong, founder and CEO of Love With Food, a Birchbox-style food subscription service, was applying to the incubator 500 Startups last fall, she wasn’t too optimistic. She believed in her company, which she had conceived as a sort of Groupon for small food producers, but she knew that she faced tough odds as her...
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Source: TechAttitude

Online and mobile technology to transform gaming industry
It looks like not a day pass by without discovering something new related with Smartphones and other “Smart” portable devices such as iPad. Information that gaming is huge on Smartphones is not such fresh information but latest reports say that “boxes” such as PlayStation and Xbox might...
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Source: Games Industry

Freemium Rush
Free-To-Play Gaming Now Makes Up More Than Half Of European Market. Freemium video games, the cheap and easily-accessible counterparts to premium console or PC games like “Skyrim” or “Call of Duty” that cost gamers...
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Source: Yahoo Finance

It's Shocking That Startups Are Ignoring A $500 Billion Market
Venture capitalist Jim Goetz says he's floored that so few entrepreneurs are focusing on building products for businesses, given how successful those startups have been. "It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise," the Sequoia Capital partner said earlier this week at the...