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February 8, 2013 01:08 am GMT

CIA and Samsung Have Similar Taste in Cutting-Edge Tech


Making good on its promise to invest in innovative startups that will help it one day sell more than just hardware, Samsung this week disclosed an investment in Cloudant, which provides cloud-based mobile services.

The investment is an interesting one for Samsung, but even more interesting for throwing light on Cloudant’s other investors. Which include, as it turns out, In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital fund, headquartered on the 11th floor of a nondescript office building in Arlington, Va.

Lest you start panicking over Cloudants nefarious intentions, take a look at its impeccableand relatively innocuousstartup pedigree: the company was part of the 2008 class of Y Com…
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