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This SATA 3 Sanshara-class SSD provides significantly faster read, write, startup and application loading speeds compared to the previous 64GB Nishara-class drive.

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Grabble, a Startmate startup and shopping application, was acquired by Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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And earlier this month, Hewlett Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) signed a deal with startup Riverbed Technology to license its application acceleration technology for use in its own products.

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It also bought London startup Summly, which makes a mobile application created by a teenage entrepreneur who sought an easier way to read news stories and other content on the smaller screens of smartphones.

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The Berlin-based startup's high quality app is the first educational application with both comprehensive and affordable learning material for iPad users that facilitates entertaining and multi-media language learning any time, any place.

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This could mean that the startup acquires a small group of beta testers and conducts a multivariate run on an application or a feature set.

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