TECHdotMN: News about Minnesota Startups

By Graeme Thickins, Tech~Surf~Blog

“You say you want unrivaled access to movies, music, television, and educational programming at a price you can afford?  Well, Twin Cities-based CRAM™ Worldwide is taking you up on that. I recently interviewed CEO and cofounder Daren Klum (see MP3 link below) to try to learn more about what he’s up to.

His new startup is out to prove it’s possible to unlock the largest content catalogs in the world so you get true, unlimited content anyplace, anytime — free of tethered connections.”

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By Graeme Thickins,

“Earlier this week, I sat down for coffee with Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad, to chat about a number of things, and we decided to do an impromptu audio interview.  I realized later it was almost three years to the day when I’d first met Robert, at an event where he was honored as Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2007 Minnesota Cup”

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By Graeme Thickins

I had the pleasure today to sit down over coffee with the founders of a content site for attorneys called Lawyerist, based in downtown Minneapolis:  Sam Glover and Aaron Street. I met Aaron at a recent monthly lunch meeting of Club Entrepreneur, which is run by my colleague Rick Brimacomb.

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According to socaltech.com,

“Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal’s acquisition of digital presence and reputation management firm SMB:LIVE was worth $8.8M, in a combination of cash and stock.”

Read the original announcement

Background on Cloud Profile from TC Business

h/t Graeme Thickins

By Graeme Thickins, Minnov8

“Is it possible to design a radio app that delivers the ultimate radio experience, complete with visually stunning graphics and social media capabilities, too?  Minneapolis’ own Handcast Media Labs LLC thought so, set out to prove it, and just launched the result on the iTunes App Store a couple of days ago.  It’s called Spark Radio (press release), and works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s available for $5.99 at this link at the App Store.”

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