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  • Cell phone charger wheel of karma alive and well in the hotel industry

    Cell phone charger wheel of karma alive and well in the hotel industry

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    You’ve left your cell phone charger at a hotel, right? At least once. Plenty of frequent travelers leave their chargers behind all… the… time. If you’ve forgotten various phone and mobile device chargers in the past, you are entitled to partake in the wheel of karma known as the lost and found box at your nearest hotel. You can defer your participation to a later date or use it right away. Up to you.

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  • Curse Raises $6 Million As It Looks To Become The Ultimate Gaming Resource

    Curse Raises $6 Million As It Looks To Become The Ultimate Gaming Resource

    Posted on December 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Most people would probably view a hardcore, 16 hour-a-day addiction to World of Warcraft as a bad thing. That was certainly the case for Hubert Thieblot a few years ago, when he dropped out of school and his parents decided to kick him out of the house because he was playing so much. Flash forward five years. Thieblot has managed to turn his addiction into a thriving company called Curse that generated over $3 million in revenue this year. Today, the company is disclosing a $6 million Series B round it closed in early 2009 with participation from Ventech Capital, AGF Private Equity, and SoftTech VC (Jeff Clavier). The round brings Curse's total funding to $11 million, after a $5 million Series A round in 2007 led by AGF Private Equity. In some senses, Curse is akin to a SourceForge for computer games, in that it offers a directory of plugins that players can use to customize and enhance their PC games. Many of the site's users are World of Warcraft fans, who have made Curse.com the definitive site for WoW add-ons. Alongside its directory, Curse also makes a native client players can use to manage their plugins.

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  • FYI: You could win an HP Envy 13 notebook

    FYI: You could win an HP Envy 13 notebook

    Posted on October 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Everyone knows that we’re giving away a brand new HP Envy 13 notebook, right? It does require a little participation in order to be entered, but your odds are a lot better to win this way than if we did the normal “post a comment, we’ll pick the winner at random” method. All the details [...]

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