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Start-Up BlueStacks Raises Cash to Bring Android Apps to Windows PCs

in Mobile on May 24, 2011 at 8:00 pm PT

Through the wonders of virtualization, BlueStacks hopes to allow all those phone apps to run on desktop, laptop and tablet PCs. The company, which is showing off its technology for the first time on Wednesday, has landed significant venture backing to fund its effort to get its software preinstalled on tens of millions of computers in the next few years.
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Sphere Leader Has Exited AOL–But Staying on as "Special" Venture Advisor

in News on November 4, 2009 at 9:30 am PT

Tony Conrad, CEO and co-founder of Sphere–the contextually relevant content engine AOL bought in the spring of 2008 for upward of $25 million–left the Time Warner online unit last month, several sources have told BoomTown in recent weeks. But, in an effort by AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong to hold onto entrepreneurial talent, Conrad has agreed to become “Special Advisor” to its AOL Ventures Unit. Apparently, he is also mulling a new start-up and remains a VC too.
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AOL's Big Give and Whirling Dervish Show!

in News on April 15, 2008 at 3:03 am PT

AOL is turning into the Oprah Winfrey of the digital world, it seems, opening up Time Warner’s (TWX) checkbook to as many start-ups as it can. Last month, it was $850 million in cash for social-networking site Bebo. And, today, it’s a much smaller slug for Sphere, which started as a blog search engine and [...]