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Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life — IN March 2009, an eternity ago in Silicon Valley, a small team of engineers here was in a big hurry to rethink the future of books. Not the paper-and-ink books that have been around since the days of Gutenberg … | David Carnoy / CNET: |
Report: New Nook coming this spring — Barnes & Noble will reportedly be adding to its Nook lineup in the next few months. — The New York Times today published a long piece about Barnes & Noble taking on Amazon in the “fight of its life.” Buried in the middle of the two-page article … | Rose Simone / TheRecord.com: |
Stepping down was a hard decision, but the ‘right’ one: Lazaridis — WATERLOO — It was a day that had been coming for years and Mike Lazaridis knew it had to happen. — But as he gave up his co-chief executive officer position at Research In Motion, the company he founded in 1984, it packed an emotional punch.| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
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Feds: Megaupload User Data Could Be Gone Thursday — Federal prosecutors say data from users of Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday. — U.S. prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men, saying the site facilitated millions of illegal downloads of movies, music and other content.
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Web Second, Mobile First — Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. — The titles were: — Mobile First, Web Second — Mobile First, Web Second (continued) — If you're in the minority that never read these posts - you should.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Thailand is the world's first government to endorse Twitter's censorship feature — Twitter's controversial move towards enabling the censorsing of tweets has gained the backing of its first international government, after authorities in Thailand publicly endorsed the introduction.
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Will Google have to start a patent war to get $9bn of value from Motorola? — The financial performance of handset, tablet and set-top box maker Motorola suggests that it won't add $12bn (including $3bn of cash) in value to Google's business. But how can Google possibly earn its money back from patents?| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Firefox 12 will feature long-awaited New Tab Page and Home Tab — After a long gestation period, it now appears that Firefox 12 — which moves to the Aurora channel at the end of the month — will feature the long-awaited New Tab Page and Home Tab. The new tab page is very like Chrome's feature of the same name.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay — Two weeks ago, the Court of The Hague ruled that Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, and competitor XS4ALL have to block access to The Pirate Bay. — The ruling was the first to bring broad censorship to the Netherlands and in a response XS4ALL … | David Carr / New York Times: |
Twitter Gives Glimpse Into Rupert Murdoch's Mind — As American business has become more and more media savvy, its leaders have appeared in media less and less. Business reporters have to work their way past background conversations with underlings, written statements that state nothing … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
FounderSoup: Stanford and Andreessen's New Startup Generator — A single entrepreneur alone is vulnerable to shortsightedness, to fatigue. But with a team comes diverse perspective, encouragement, and the wherewithal to push through problems. That's why a group of Stanford computer science … | Aaron Glantz / New York Times: |
Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can't Get Hired as an Industry Moves On — Silicon Valley may be booming again, but times are still tough for the 200 out-of-work professionals who crowd into Sunnyvale's City Hall every Thursday morning. — Most of them hold advanced degrees in engineering …
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Cloud Foundry Supports Node.js Modules with NPM — We are pleased to announce support for npm (Node Package Manager) which manages Node.js application module dependencies on CloudFoundry.com.
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Episode 81 - Windows Azure Media Services — Join Nate and Nick each week as they cover Windows Azure. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow. — In this episode, we are joined by Alex Zambelli …
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A milestone for the record books: 50 million people choose OpenDNS — Today is a big day for OpenDNS. We announced we're now 50 million strong. More than 50 million people around the world …
A milestone for the record books: 50 million people choose OpenDNS — Today is a big day for OpenDNS. We announced we're now 50 million strong. More than 50 million people around the world …
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Meet Atlassian Stash: Git Repository Management for Enterprise Teams — Atlassian now offers a centralized solution to manage Git repositories behind the firewall. Streamlined for small agile teams, powerful enough for large organizations.
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