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LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShare For $119 Million — LinkedIn just announced plans to buy SlideShare for $119 million. It will be 45% cash and 55% stock. Here's what CEO Jeff Weiner said in a press release explaining the move: “Presentations are one of the main ways in which professionals capture …
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SlideShare Blog, Master of 500 Hats, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Tweets: @jeffweiner, @hunterwalk, @anildash and @kristacanfield
| Deep Nishar / Linkedin Blog: |
SlideShare + LinkedIn = More Value for Professionals — Over the past few years, SlideShare and LinkedIn have been working closely together to help professionals be more effective and productive through the content they create and share on LinkedIn. I've personally been a huge fan of SlideShare …
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Scott Thompson Resume Scandal Is Not ‘An Inadvertent Mistake’ — He Also Claimed Comp Sci Degree As CTO Of PayPal — Yahoo's new CEO, Scott Thompson, is under fire for telling the SEC (and Yahoo's board) that he had a computer science degree from Stonehill College when he does not have one.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo's Board Will “Review” Resume Discrepancy of CEO — Yahoo just released a statement that its board will “review” today's revelation that the bio of its CEO Scott Thompson contained an error related to his educational achievements and make “appropriate disclosure” about what happened.
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| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
The Disgrace Of Yahoo … Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has lied about receiving a computer science degree. Or at any rate he's never corrected his biographical information that includes that information, and it's nearly impossible to believe that he simply never noticed it.
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo's Response on CEO's Computer Science ResumeGate: “Inadvertent Error” — A Yahoo spokesperson just confirmed as accurate allegations from an activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point that its CEO Scott Thompson did not have a computer science degree from Stone Hill College as claimed on his bio and also in regulatory filings.
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| AnandTech: |
Samsung Galaxy S III Performance Preview: It's Fast — Earlier today Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S III, at the heart of which is Samsung's new Exynos 4 Quad SoC. Fortunately we got a ton of hands on time with the device at Samsung's unpacked event in London and are able to bring …
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy S III preview: hands-on with the next Android superphone (video) — You remember that Galaxy S II? A phone so good they launched it, well, a whole load of times. But after seeing phablet cousins and LTE variants, the true handset sequel is finally here.
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| Ben Kersey / SlashGear: |
Flipboard for Android is a Galaxy S III exclusive — Samsung has fully unveiled the Galaxy S III here at the London event today, and one of the inclusions to its modified version of Ice Cream Sandwich is an exclusive version of Flipboard. It marks the first time that Flipboard will be making … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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| Dustin Curtis: |
Facebook's numbers — I like to look at raw numbers every once in a while, without external influence, to recalibrate my ability to judge the magnitude of things. Here are some of the numbers from Facebook's most recent S-1 filing (published on May 2nd) that I think are important as metrics …
| Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook Sets $28-$35 IPO Range — Facebook Inc. set the price range for its initial public offering at $28 to $35 a share, in a landmark deal that would raise as much as $13.6 billion for the social network and insiders. The preliminary price range would value the company at $77 billion to $96 billion.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge: |
The New iPhone: Size, Screen + New Connector (Plus iPod touch) — Whether you call it the “iPhone 5,” the “iPhone 6,” or the “iPhone 4G”—well, maybe not the last one thanks to international regulators—the new iPhone is coming this fall, and we have some details to share.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Windows 8 drops DVD playback, only available with paid Media Center upgrade — You might have heard that Windows 8 won't come with Media Center, but that's not the only missing multimedia piece of the puzzle. This week, Microsoft revealed that the new operating system won't have any kind of DVD playback … | Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Judge says Google's Android lost money in 2010 — Google Inc's Android mobile platform resulted in a net loss for the company in every quarter of 2010, despite generating roughly $97.7 million in revenue for the first quarter of that year, a U.S. judge said in court.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft to Use Dolby Sound Tech in Windows 8 — Dolby Laboratories said on Thursday that Microsoft plans to incorporate its sound technology into Windows 8. — Under the deal, computer makers will be required to license directly from Dolby and pay a royalty to use the technologies.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Kindle Fire Shipments Fizzle — Amazon likes to tout the Kindle Fire as “the #1 bestselling, most gifted, and most wished for product” it peddles (without ever disclosing actual sales numbers). But evidently that doesn't mean quite as much as you'd think.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Startup steroids: Pinterest feels the burn of Facebook's Open Graph — A packed room of more than 200 founders, VCs and internet bankers took a moment to look up from their iPhones and listen in hushed reverence as one of Silicon Valley's top investors explained what he looks for when choosing the next hot startup.| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
Huffington's Role Shrinks at AOL — Executive Says Shift Will Free Her to Focus on Her Namesake News Site as It Gears Up to Expand Abroad — Arianna Huffington acknowledged Thursday that her portfolio at AOL Inc. is being scaled back to include only the Huffington Post …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Discovery Channel Buys Revision3 for $30 Million — Web video is supposed to disrupt cable TV. And maybe it will, one day. In the meantime, the cable guys are doing just fine. — Here's a proof point: Discovery Communications, parent of The Discovery Channel, has purchased Revision3 … | Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Reveals Wildly Intelligent Multi-Tiered Haptics System — I love days like this when we get to see a new and exciting invention from the Crazy Ones in Cupertino. In March there was a rumor that the new iPad would include new advanced haptics that didn't' pan out.
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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 …
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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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