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Naveen Selvadurai, Foursquare co-founder is leaving — UPDATED: Last week, when I heard the news that Foursquare investors were buying up stock from current employees, it piqued my interest - who was Spark Capital buying stock from, I wondered? For nearly three years … | Naveen Selvadurai / STREAM: |
next — three years ago this week, when dennis and i were putting the finishing touches on the vision for this company, we had a hundred or so beta testers who helped us reach the finish line. we went down to sxsw to tell the world about foursquare. — it's hard to believe that now …
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CNET, VentureBeat, Betabeat and About Foursquare
| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
SV Angel Also Buying Up Foursquare Stock. Dennis Crowley Emerges As Big-Company CEO — Spark Capital isn't the only existing investor buying Foursquare employee stock in an up round, I've learned. Legendary investor SV Angel is, too. That's an unusual move considering that the firm typically focuses on early-stage deals.
Tweets: @eldon
| Steve Lo / M.I.C. Gadget: |
Hands-on with iPad 3 Front Glass, Rear Shell, and Cases (video) — Keeping you, our dear M.I.C. readers updated, we have some very interesting news for you. Despite the rumors that Apple would be having no home button on their next-generation iPad, we have gotten our hands on the parts through our sources … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Yahoo Labs Head Raghavan Departing to Google — Prabhakar Raghavan, the well-respected head of Yahoo's Labs unit and also recently its head of strategy, is leaving the company to take a job at Google. — The departure comes ahead of possibly deep cuts in his division …
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Pulse2 Technology … and The TechBlock
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Android ‘Key Lime Pie’ comes after Jelly Bean — We've been tipped by a reliable source today that Google will be using the name “Key Lime Pie” for the version of Android that comes after Jelly Bean (in fact, the information comes from the very same source that tipped us to the Jelly Bean codename last year).| Sinead Carew / Reuters: |
Senator Schumer asks FTC to probe Apple, Android — (Reuters) - A U.S. senator has urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reports that applications on the Apple Inc and Google Inc mobile systems steal private photos and contacts and post them online without consent.
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AppleInsider, Betabeat, Electronista, Pulse2 Technology …, PhoneArena and 9to5Mac
| Hal / App Inventor Edu: |
Announcing: MIT App Inventor Open Beta Preview — The MIT Center for Mobile Learning is delighted to announce that we're meeting our goal of making MIT App Inventor available as a public service in the first quarter of 2012. — For the past two months, we have been conducting a closed test …
| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
BitTorrent Pirates Go Nuts After TV Release Groups Dump Xvid — Every now and again, the world's most famous piracy release groups get together and have a big old meeting to decide how they'll carry out their future activities. At the top of the agenda is an item of utmost importance …
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The Verge and Boing Boing
| Klint Finley / SiliconANGLE: |
Github Auditing Codebase in Wake of Ruby on Rails Hack, Draws Fire from Community — Github, the popular code sharing site, suffered a major security exploit today when an unauthorized user pushed a commit to the Ruby on Rails project. The problem appears to be a flaw in Ruby on Rails …
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Zero Day Blog, Egor Homakov, Code Space, The GitHub Blog, jtimberman.housepub.org and The GitHub Blog
Tweets: @gossnj, @cgiffard, @timhaines, @zedshaw, @jsonculverhouse, @dhh, @zedshaw and @drpizza
| Douglas MacMillan / Business Week: |
The Rise of the ‘Brogrammer’ — Danilo Stern-Sapad writes code for a living, but don't call him a geek. He wears sunglasses and blasts 2Pac while programming. He enjoys playing Battle Shots—like the board game Battleship, but with liquor—at the office.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Targeting Merchants, Square Debuts Register iPad App And Analytics; Now Processing $4B In Payments Per Year — As we reported earlier this year, mobile payments company Square revealed that it was planning to add a number of new operational capabilities and data analysis to the register, including in-depth analytics.
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Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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