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Our first SmartCamp of 2011 will be in Bangalore, India in April. With a population of over 1 billion plus, and home to some of the biggest tech companies in world, it comes as no surprise that international investors have been actively enagaged with the local communitities for many years. We believe that our mentor network is a real goldmine and the best reason to apply for SmartCamp.

Announcing: The IBM Global Entrepreneur SmartCamp competitions for 2011. We are looking for entrepreneurs with global ambition and want to find ways to connect them to mentors, capital, and markets on a completely international basis. Here are the 9 cities which are a mixture of emerging markets and developed hubs. We have been overpowered by the excitement and support to help build these ecosystems.

CareCloud, the co-winner of the IBM Global Entrepreneur Silicon Valley SmartCamp competition in 2010, is a company that modernizes the workflow in a medical practice to put physicians in touch with each other across multiple points of care, through a Cloud Computing technology-based solution. "We feel our solution helps revolutionize the way physicians collaborate and share critical healthcare information," said Albert Santalo, president and chief executive officer, CareCloud. You can Learn more about the SmartCamp competitions in 2011 by joining the SmartCamp Community.

Before Super Bowl XLV, there was wide speculation about who would win the Super Bowl ads war between Groupon and LivingSocial. Most people were betting that Groupon would win Big-Time, and they did if you define winning, in this case, as making the biggest Bonehead marketing blunder of the year.