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Via Newsletter

“On Nov. 16, 2010, with your help, we intend to do just that. Last year, we set the single-day record for online philanthropic giving. Give to the Max Day 2009 saw more than 38,000 donors log on to GiveMN to give $14 million to 3,434 Minnesota nonprofits, whose missions range from feeding the hungry, to protecting the environment, to promoting the arts. This year’s goal is even more ambitious. We’re asking you to help us engage more than 40,000 donors to give to their favorite Minnesota charities in just 24 hours!”

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Via Businessweek

Target customers will soon be able to buy gift cards that will allow them to purchase applications and other enhancements for social games played on the popular networking Web site Facebook.

The retailer, which will start selling the Facebook Credits gift cards on Sunday, will be the first brick-and-mortar store to offer the cards.”

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Minnesota M&A Minnesota Startup Sourced

By Robin Wauters, TechCrunch

Card.ly, a Web service that allows anyone to create sweet-looking online business cards (see my personal site robinwauters.com for an example) has been acquired by Workface, the company behind digital business card creation tool BusinessCard2. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.”

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Minnesota M&A Sourced

By Alexia Tsotsis, TechCrunch

“Tel Aviv-based Attenti announced today its acquisition by 3M, most notably the makers of Post-Its, to the tune of $230 million in cash. Formerly Dmatek, Attenti is the world’s leading supplier of remote people-tracking technologies such as ankle bracelets, voice recognition devices and alcohol monitoring technologies.

The purchase, which will benefit 3M by providing the company with GPS and radio frequency technology, is the second in a line of security-related acquisitions this week; 3M bought fingerprint ID company Cogent Systems Inc. yesterday for $943 million.”

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Networks Sourced

By Katharine Grayson, Minneapolis-St.Paul Business Journal

LightSquared, a high-speed wireless broadband startup backed by hedge fund Harbinger Capital, expects to expand its network into Minneapolis next year.

The company announced in July that it would debut its 4G wireless system in Baltimore, Denver, Phoenix and Las Vegas beginning next year. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the company also plans to enter the Chicago and Minneapolis markets in 2011.”

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By Katharine Grayson, Minneapolis-St.Paul Business Journal

Compellent Technologies Inc.’s stock was up more than 14 percent in afternoon trading Friday, a surge sparked by a bidding war over one of the company’s competitors, 3Par Inc.

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Minnesota Startup Sourced

Via Minnov8

“Our Startup Spotlight guest this week is Matthew Foust from Audiofile Engineering in Minneapolis.

Matt and Evan Olcott (his co-founder) established Integral Studio in 2000 and Audiofile Engineering in 2004 to concentrate on Mac-based audio tools for the audio industry as well as awesome iPhone/iPad/iPod-Touch tools like FiRe (Field Recorder).”

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Other Sourced

By Dave Brauer, MinnPost

“The Star Tribune is now aping Groupon — the online “deal a day” that delivers advertisers flash mobs of discount-seeking customers.

On Thursday, startribune.com unveiled its first STeal. Executive Director of digital Jason Erdahl isn’t coy about how much cash the online coupons should generate: $40,000 to $50,000 a month, or around half a million dollars a year.”

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Networks Policy Sourced

By Ann Treacy, Blandin on Broadband

Senator Klobuchar’s Broadband Summit was a far cry from the Public FCC Hearing last week. There were a lot more suits today, although about 250 people as opposed to 700 last week. There were a number of the same people – but certainly not a complete overlap by any means. I recognized more faces today, which means these were people who have been involved with and/or have been following broadband for a while.”

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Other Sourced

By Dan Haugen, The Line

“Any business gathering that features conga drummers obviously means to motivate. And that was just what a group of Twin Cities attorneys, advisors, entrepreneurs, and investors wanted to do when they launched the new “innovation advocacy force” called MOJO Minnesota in May–right around the time we were putting together the first issue of The Line. Besides a conga beat, that launch event featured a speech about success and failure by an entrepreneur who’s experienced both, and games to hone participants’ networking skills.”

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