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How CISPA would affect you (faq) — CISPA may have cleared the U.S. House of Representatives, but the fight isn't over. It's shifted to the U.S. Senate. Here's CNET's FAQ on what you need to know about this particularly controversial Internet bill. — Follow @declanm| Leigh Beadon / Techdirt: |
Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote — Up until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today—and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that's not even the worst part.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
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Intuit To Acquire Demandforce For $424MM — This morning, Intuit announced its agreement to acquire one of Benchmark's portfolio companies, Demandforce, for $424mm. As with Instagram, Benchmark Capital is the largest institutional investor in Demandforce.| comScore, Inc.: |
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Samsung Ends Nokia's 14-Year Run as World's Biggest Phone Maker — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) overtook Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) as the world's biggest vendor of mobile-phones last quarter, ending the Finnish company's 14-year run as the global industry leader, according to researcher Strategy Analytics.| Tasneem Raja / MoJo Articles: |
“Gangbang Interviews” and “Bikini Shots”: Silicon Valley's Brogrammer Problem — For startups like Path, recasting geek identity with a frathouse swagger is a dangerous game. — Quora (left and right); Geeklist (center) — At the South by Southwest Interactive festival in March … | Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Apple kills Chomp for Android — Apple acquired app discovery service Chomp earlier this year, betting that it would help make app discovery easier and better on its iTunes Appstore. The casualty of that acquisition is the Chomp for Android app which seems to have been discontinued.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Viddy Is Raising $30M At A $370M Valuation — Someone wise once said “If Instagram for video were to happen it would look nothing like Instagram” but, because it was on Twitter, I briefly saw that tweet before it got lost in the ether and now I can't find it, dammit.| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Say Hello to Windows Azure, The World's Most Misunderstood Cloud — Jeremy Howard sees Silicon Valley as an echo chamber. He recently moved to Northern California from Australia, looking to improve the fortunes of his startup, an ingenious operation known as Kaggle, and he soon found … | Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
‘Pivoting’ Pays Off for Tech Entrepreneurs — Technology entrepreneurs of past eras took two years to build a product, hire a staff and figure out whether there was any real market for their service. But today all that typically takes only a few months as founders cycle quickly through different ideas until they find one that sticks.| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Evernote approaching 30 million users, funding reports are ‘premature’: CEO Phil Libin — Evernote CEO Phil Libin took the stage at The Next Web Conference earlier today. — We took notes and will have a longer post for you later on, but here are some interesting tidbits about Evernote that Libin shared at the end of his talk.| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Revealed: How Twitter's secret offer for Instagram made Facebook pay $1B — The secret details of the $1 billion deal between Facebook and Instagram are more convoluted than anyone thought. VentureBeat has learned that Instagram chief executive and co-founder Kevin Systrom first got an offer … | Paul Sloan / CNET: |
Facebook's next patent push: The top suspect — When Yahoo filed its sweeping patent lawsuit against Facebook, claiming that Facebook essentially built its social network on the back of Yahoo's intellectual property, Mark Zuckerberg took little time to take up arms.| Anna Heim / The Next Web: |
YouTube co-founders raise Series A funding for AVOS from Google Ventures, NEA and others — Internet company AVOS Systems has raised a Series A round of funding, co-founder Chad Hurley announced on stage during a fireside chat at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam today.| Dow Jones Newswires: |
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Occupy protester's tweets fair game for prosecutors: judge — An Occupy Wall Street protester has lost his bid to quash a subpoena seeking his Twitter records from last fall, when he was arrested during a mass protest on the Brooklyn Bridge. — Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. … | Bloomberg: |
Google Street View Investigation by U.S. Declared Closed — Google Inc. (GOOG) said the U.S. Justice Department closed an investigation last May into the company's use of specially equipped autos that collected wireless data for its Street View project. — Google's disclosure about the inquiry … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
LivingSocial picks up online ordering software firm ONOSYS for at least $6.5m — Groupon rival LivingSocial has acquired online and mobile ordering software company ONOSYS. Bloomberg has the scoop, but the financial details of the agreement were seemingly kept under wraps.| Juan Carlos Perez / PC World: |
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Rumor: First BlackBerry 10 Phone To Launch in October — According to reports from multiple sources, RIM may announce the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone by mid-August, and launch it by October-with just enough lead time for the dwindling smartphone platform maker to get a jump on the holiday season.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Lead Android developer thinks a five-month wait for an update is ‘very reasonable’ — Jean-Baptiste Queru, technical lead on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), has revealed his opinion on the current state of the project and the lengthy waits users face for updates.| PC World: |
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Nintendo to begin simultaneous digital and retail releases — The veteran video game giant has just suffered its first ever annual loss, prompting a new focus on digital downloads — In an investor meeting following the news of Nintendo's £330m annual loss, president Satoru Iwata … | Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Wolfram Alpha now available as a $2.99 PC app — Wolfram Alpha already offers its brand of computational knowledge in the form of a mobile app, and now it's available on the PC as well. The company has partnered up with Intel to offer the app through the AppUp market, where it's available now for $2.99 … | Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
Precise Pangolin rolls out: Ubuntu 12.04 released, introduces Unity HUD — The developers behind the Ubuntu project have announced the availability of Ubuntu 12.04, codenamed Precise Pangolin. The new version of the popular Linux distribution brings updated software, several major user … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Samsung sends protesting flashmob to Sydney Apple Store, tells customers to ‘Wake Up’ — Samsung's marketing machine appears to have gone into overdrive with reports that advertising agencies working on its behalf sent a bus full of protesters to the Apple Store in Sydney, Australia to tell customers to ‘Wake Up’.
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