Not so for Advance Publications, the Newhouse-family enterprise famous for publishing the New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Vogue.

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His most famous get was Groupon, but he and his firm invested in hot enterprise companies such as Echo Global, Opower, and SolidFire.

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But with the sort of mean software development teams Google is famous for, Microsoft needs to get on the defensive in order to maintain its lead with enterprise customers.

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