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Instagram Founders Were Helped by Bay Area Connections — SAN FRANCISCO — Past midnight, in a dimly lighted warehouse jutting into the San Francisco Bay, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger introduced something they had been working on for weeks: a photo-sharing iPhone application called Instagram.
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Tweets: @cdixon, @eldon, @pkafka, @jonathanwald and @hunterwalk
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Twitter Wanted to Buy Instagram, But Facebook Beat it to it — Facebook may have secured the $1 billion acquisition of Instagram last week but it appears it wasn't the only social network that was interested in the service, with a recent New York Times report suggesting that Twitter was also in the running.| Charlie Stross / Charlie's Diary: |
What Amazon's ebook strategy means — It seems to me that a lot of folks in the previous discussion don't really understand quite what makes Amazon so interesting—and threatening, for that matter—to the publishing industry. — So I'm going to take a stab at explaining.
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Jeff Jarvis, Beyond Search, Forbes, TechCrunch and Wired
Tweets: @codinghorror, @hfiguiere and @aweissman
| Ian Katz / Guardian: |
Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin — Exclusive: Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style ‘walled gardens’ — The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation … | Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC Proposes $25,000 Fine on Google — WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission proposed a $25,000 fine on Google Inc., accusing the search giant of deliberately obstructing an investigation into whether the company violated federal rules when its street-mapping service collected …
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TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, Geekosystem and Bits
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
FCC Clears Google Over Wifi Eavesdropping But Fines It $25,000 For “Noncompliance” With Requests — The US Federal Communications Commission has cleared Google of any legal wrong-doing over its Street View cars that intercepted wifi transmissions. That's the good news for the company. The bad news?| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
How former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold could have created the iPhone — Myhrvold's ‘consumer computer’ vision in 1991, as published by Men's Journal. — Nathan Myhrvold is back in the national spotlight again, but in a very different way this time. — Myhrvold in his chef's garb
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Men's Journal, The Verge, Neowin and Slashdot
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Steve Jobs movie starring Ashton Kutcher to cover Apple from 1971 to 2000, filming starts next month — We've got a few more details on the recently-revealed Steve Jobs movie starring Ashton Kutcher, thanks to a Neowin interview with the producer, Mark Hulme.
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VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, CNET, Mashable!, iClarified, Redmond Pie, Business Insider and Neowin
| Keith Teare / TechCrunch: |
The Mobile Paradox — Google's stock declined by over 4% yesterday. Many have put this down to the company's decision to create a non-voting class of stock as part of a control-retention exercise as the founders sell shares. But more is going on here. In the same week as Facebook acquired Instagram …
Tweets: @gaborfari, @carnage4life and @theromit
| Jason Calacanis / LAUNCH: |
The One Product That Makes Apple a Trillion-Dollar Company Overnight — Apple will become a trillion-dollar company based not on iPads and Apple TV, but payments. — Imagine taking out your iPhone and instead of buying Angry Birds you bought the latest Groupon.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Finally Gets Right To Gmail Trademark In Germany — When Google launched Gmail in Germany in 2005, it was quickly barred from using the Gmail name for its email product there. German entrepreneur Daniel Giersch, after all, had registered the ‘G-mail’ trademark (short for Giersch mail) … | Katherine Rushton / Telegraph: |
Google Wallet boosted by EC probe into rival phone payment project — Google has been handed a major headstart on cornering the UK's ‘swipe and pay’ mobile phone payments market with its Google Wallet, after the European Commission delayed a rival project by Britain's biggest mobile operators.
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The Drum, Reuters, Android Phone Fans, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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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