Virtual Incubator to All, nReduce Adds Mentors and Demo Days -- Is It the Pre-AngelList?

Originally when we wrote about "N Combinator," it was an incubator in reaction to Y Combinator, founded by some well-meaning entrepreneurs who didn't get in. Playing off the fact that the "Y" clearly didn't stand for "yes," they came up with "N Combinator" as the name of a virtual, open source, loosey-goosey incubator where everyone could get in.

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Microsoft Just Gave This Hacker $200,000

Microsoft gave away $260,000 to a bunch of hackers last night. That's "hackers" in the good sense-here, the clever programmers who won its Blue Hat security contest, including a grand prize of $200,000. The big prize was awarded to a PhD student at Columbia University, Vasilis Pappas, who was handed the check in an American Idol-style contest finale complete with loud music and confetti.

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BIG DATA, BIG BUCKS: LinkedIn's Dan Roth Talks Social News At 'Social Media ROI'

Hear from brands like Gap and Pepsi on measuring social media impact at " Social Media ROI, " Business Insider's conference on strategy for Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Google Plus and Pinterest. September 27, 2012, in New York -- Reserve your ticket now.

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Holy Crap, LivingSocial Is Losing A Lot Of Money

Top Groupon competitor LivingSocial is still burning money at an incredible rate, according to Amazon's 10-Q. LivingSocial had an operating loss of $96 million last quarter on revenue of $138 million. Amazon has a 29% stake in LivingSocial. As a result, it reports some of LivingSocial's business results.

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