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Harvard’s new official tour app leverages augmented reality
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A group visits the John Harvard statue.

The throngs of tourists snapping selfies in Harvard Yard now have one more reason to reach for their phones. More →

Health Tech
IBM announces $2.6 billion acquisition to boost power of Watson Health
By Nidhi Subbaraman Follow
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IBM is building out an office space at 75 Binney Street office as the headquarters of Watson Health worldwide. About 950 employees are expected to be based there. Truven is headquartered in Ann Arbor and has 50 employees in Cambridge. More →

Social Gaming
Bingo! GSN Games acquires UK studio
By Timothy Loew Follow
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GSN Games, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment and DirectTV with a 135-person office in Boston’s Downtown Crossing, has acquired another social casino games studio, UK-based Plumbee. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.More →

Mobile
Verizon leads $57M round in Jana to subsidize data in developing world
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Jana is the creator of an Android app called mCent. People who use the app are sent promotions, such as offers to download an app or digital coupons. If they redeem those offers, the users are rewarded with credits for their phone’s mobile data use, which lets them use more apps without running up big charges.More →

Startups
Startup Indigo wants to use bacteria to create hardy super-crops
By Nidhi Subbaraman Follow
Indigo founder Geoffrey von Maltzahn (left), and chief executive officer, David Perry.

Just as the emerging medical field around the so-called human microbiome seeks to fight disease by adjusting the balance of bacteria in the body, Indigo’s goal is to manipulate the composition of bacteria in plants to grow healthier crops that ultimately produce more nutritious food.More →

Innovation Economy
Why entrepreneurs still bolt from Boston
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The area must do a better job of retaining young entrepreneurs who feel the pull of California or New York.More →

Education
Jobs, Zuckerberg, Omidyar invest $6.4M in edtech startup Ellevation
By Curt Woodward Follow
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The financing was led by the Emerson Collective, an investment and grant-making organization headed by Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. It could help Ellevation grow beyond its current footprint of more than 450 school districts in 37 states. More →

Somerville
Understory receives nearly $7.5 million in new funding
By Amanda Burke Follow
Understory cofounder Bryan Dow with the startup's weather detection device (courtesy of the company).

Understory, Inc., a Somerville startup whose real-time, rooftop sensors detect how weather systems are impacting life on the ground, has received nearly $7.5 million in new funding to grow its network of weather stations and open a new location in Madison, Wis.More →

computing
Dell denies any “headwinds” in $50B debt sale for EMC buyout
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Joe Tucci and Michael Dell.

Rory Read, Dell’s chief integration officer, said in a letter to employees that he was responding to “chatter over the past few weeks about possible financing headwinds” in the proposed purchase of Hopkinton-based EMC.More →

Startups
After shutdown announcement, Dunwello considers lifelines
By Nidhi Subbaraman Follow
Dunwello founder and CEO Matt Lauzon.

The staff of ratings website Dunwello announced over the long weekend that the service would shut down and cease operations. But founder Matt Lauzon and the five-member team have heard resounding enthusiasm for their product and are re-evaluating their decision to shutter the site.More →

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