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venturebeat.com — COMS Interactive, a startup that produces an SaaS products for the health care industry, has secured a new $21 million round of funding, the company announced today. COMS' main product is Daylight IQ, a software suite that manages health and disease profiles for elderly residents at senior living facilities.

venturebeat.com — Facebook announced today that the company now has one million active advertisers - companies or organizations that have advertised on the social network at least once in the last 28 days. The company attributed that feat to small businesses, saying that this milestone is due in large part "to the small businesses growing their businesses online and in their local communities via Facebook."

venturebeat.com — The useful life of the average tweet can be measured in minutes. Most posts on Facebook exist in users' streams for perhaps a few hours. But a pin on Pinterest? That can last thousands of times longer, according to a new study by Piquora (formerly Pinfluencer).

venturebeat.com — Offering a "big data" solution is apparently irresistible to every company on the planet. Mega-corporation General Electric has just announced a new big data and analytics platform it calls "Predictivity" so it too can join the number-crunching party. Unlike many other big data solutions, GE's new Hadoop-based software is targeted at the "industrial Internet."

venturebeat.com — Google Glass is Orwellian, famed American philosopher, scientist, and activist Noam Chomsky says. "I feel we're moving into a world that was described pretty accurately by one of the founders of Google," Chomsky said. "Some reporter asked Eric Schmidt if this was an invasion of privacy ...

venturebeat.com — Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, Verizon, and Apple might breathe a little easier today. Their denials of working with the NSA's PRISM program to turn over huge quantities of customer data over to the secretive U.S. intelligence agency just got a little bit more credible today, thanks to testimony from NSA director General Keith Alexander.

venturebeat.com — SendGrid is best known for its infrastructure that makes it possible for big companies to deliver millions of emails to their customers. But now the business is taking a dive into new waters with its own email marketing service, which will challenge leaders like MailChimp and Constant Contact.