Techmeme: 42Floors' PDA: The War For Talent Among Startups Needs A New Approach. Here's Why (Rip Empson/TechCrunch)

April 28, 2012, 6:35 PM

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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

42Floors' PDA: The War For Talent Among Startups Needs A New Approach. Here's Why — Startups do the darndest things. As you may or may not have seen, Y Combinator startup 42Floors made a bold and fairly unprecedented move today — as hiring goes, in any case.

More: Find Office Space. Tweets: @danshipper, @brianmwang and @maccman. Thanks:@jasonfreedman

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple and Samsung CEOs to meet on May 21 and 22 for settlement talks in San Francisco court — On April 17, I already reported on the fact that Apple and Samsung agreed, under soft pressure from Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California …

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Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Samsung denies staging “Wake Up” anti-Apple flashmob — Samsung has denied any involvement with the “Wake Up” flashmob staged outside an Apple Store in Australia, despite suggestions that it was an escalation of the company's anti-iPhone campaign. Reported earlier this week …

More: CNET, Android News, Rumours …, 9to5Mac, Android and Me, Android Community, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena and MacNN. Thanks:@ben_kersey

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

YouTube For Google TV Gets Recommendations, Smoother Playback And A +1 Button — Google TV, the company's first serious foray into the living room, hasn't exactly set the world on fire. That doesn't mean Google has given up, though. Far from it. While there hasn't been much news …

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Jack Dorsey Talks Square, Twitter, And Instagram-Facebook With Charlie Rose — Twitter co-founder, and Square CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey sat down with Charlie Rose yesterday to talk about the two companies he's developed as well as Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram and the “digital revolution.”

More: Pulse2 Technology …, iPhone in Canada Blog and AllThingsD

Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:

China plans national, unified CPU architecture — According to reports from various industry sources, the Chinese government has begun the process of picking a national computer chip instruction set architecture (ISA). This ISA would have to be used for any projects backed with government money …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, EE Times, Ubergizmo, The Verge and Slashdot

Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey:

Latest Firefox Beta Turns On the ‘SPDY’ — With Firefox 12 out the door, Mozilla is turning its efforts to polishing up Firefox 13, due out six weeks from now. — If you don't want to wait that long, you can download Firefox 13 from the beta release channel today.

More: Zero Distraction, Techie Buzz, Future Releases, WinBeta, Computerworld, SlashGear, The Verge, Ubergizmo, LaptopMemo, Pocket-lint and The H Open Source

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

The Winklevoss Twins Are Now VCs: “We Think The Cloud Is Going To Be Huge” — It's a Friday afternoon (in some parts of the world, at least), so go ahead — take a nice long drink of your favorite alcoholic beverage. If you're like me, you'll need it to make it through the CNBC interview …

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