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Why Dropbox Is A Major Disruption — Back in October, Techcrunch announced that Dropbox had raised $250mm at a seemingly absurd valuation. Many firms, including my firm Benchmark Capital, participated. When this happened, many people asked us why this was a special company that would cause us …
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Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More) — SAN FRANCISCO — When the founders of GitHub moved into their swank South-of-Market loft last year, the first thing they did was redecorate. They turned the floor's biggest office into a parody of an executive suite … | Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Flickr disables Pinterest pins on copyrighted images (exclusive) — As the third most popular source of content on digital pin-board site Pinterest, Flickr and its photographers are subject to frequent acts of copyright infringement. But a site-wide update to Flickr promises to better protect members and their copyrighted works.| Ryan Lawler / GigaOM: |
Viddy pulled from the Apple App Store for adult material — Mobile video sharing app Viddy has been apparently been pulled from the Apple App Store not long after quickly rising up the ranks of free video and camera applications available for the iPhone. A Viddy spokesperson confirmed …
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Apple's FairPlay DRM for iBooks cracked by Requiem app — Apple dropped its FairPlay DRM system for music back in 2009, but the remaining segments of the iTunes ecosystem — apps, videos, and iBooks — still utilize versions of the copy-protection scheme. Ways to circumvent the first two have existed …
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Cydia Blog, Softpedia News, Pulse2 Technology …, MacRumors and CNET
| Maira Sutton / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
This Isn't a Hoax: Pakistan Requests Proposals for a National Filtering and Blocking System — This Isn't a Hoax: Pakistan Requests Proposals for a National Filtering and Blocking System — The Pakistani government is looking for new ways to censor the Internet.
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| Joe Light / Wall Street Journal: |
Stocks: How Tweet It Is — Some Funds Are Using Social Media to Find Investments — Some investors think they have found a way to profit from the most ephemeral of data sources: the Twitterverse. — More than a dozen hedge funds and high-frequency traders now make trades guided … Thanks:@pkedrosky
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Reddit Writes A Law: First Draft Of The Free Internet Act Emerges — As we noted last month, the community at Reddit responded to the whole SOPA mess by deciding that they should collaborate to write their own piece of legislation that protects internet freedoms.
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Rovio's CEO on Growing His Flock and Whether to Fly Solo — Last week was a big one for Rovio, the maker of the hit game Angry Birds. — The company released its Facebook game, joined up with a Finnish theme park and announced plans to blast off into space. — But the company is also at a crossroads.| Associated Press: |
Judge awards iPhone user $850 in throttling case — SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — When AT&T started slowing down the data service for his iPhone, Matt Spaccarelli, an unemployed truck driver and student, took the country's largest telecommunications company to small claims court. And won.| Stephen Chapman / ZDNet: |
Windows 8 SKUs mentioned on HP.com — Summary: Windows 8 SKUs get a shout-out in some recent documentation on HP.com. Are they the real deal, document placeholders, or something else altogether? — During a bout of recent research, I stumbled upon a couple of driver documents on HP's Web site … | Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Facebook resuscitates Digg, traffic up 35% — Think Digg is deader than a doornail? Think again. The news aggregation site is showing new signs of life and has Facebook to thank for its recent resuscitation. — Digg's pageviews jumped 35 percent in January, and the struggling company saw …
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Digg Blog, Fast Company, Pulse2 Technology …, TechCrunch and Inside Facebook
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Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
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University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
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