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Weekly#136

  • Ex-CEO Steve Ballmer has 4% stake in Twitter (FastCompany)
  • French Studio created a mobile game only in binaural sound without graphics (FastCompany) (Ulule)
  • Stanford University’s endowment fund and Willett Advisors LLC, the fund managing Michael Bloomberg’s investments, now invest a combined $100,000 in every startup to go through YC (WSJ)
  • Alibaba bets big on video with $4.2B proposed acquisition of Youku (Tech in Asia)
  • System that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms human teams (Phys)