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Zuckerberg's Hoodie a ‘Mark of Immaturity,’ Analyst Says — Mark Zuckerberg is known for having arrived late for a meeting with prospective investor Sequoia Capital and giving a less-than-serious pitch while wearing pajamas. — Now, as Facebook preps its initial public offering … | Tim McLaughlin / Reuters: |
Facebook changes IPO pitch in Boston, scraps video — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's initial public offering pitch played to some bad reviews in New York, so for its Boston audience on Tuesday, the 30-minute video was scrapped and the company took more questions from analysts and potential investors.| Aden Fine / ACLU: |
BREAKING NEWS: Twitter Stands Up For One Of Its Users — Twitter has filed a motion in state court in New York seeking to quash a court order requiring it to turn over information about one of its users and his communications on Twitter. This particular case involves a Twitter user … | Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
Twitter: We're still the free-speech wing of the free-speech party — As various levels of government both in the U.S. and around the world have stepped up their attempts to track down dissidents through social networks, the pressure has intensified on companies like Twitter and Facebook … | Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Sources Say AOL Seeking Buyers for Engadget and TechCrunch. Arrington “Not In The Least Bit Interested” — We weren't sure about this one at first, but now we have two independent sources confirming that AOL is exploring the sale of its cornerstone technology sites Engadget and TechCrunch.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Yahoo Director in Charge of Botched CEO Vetting to Step Down From Board — CSLie has claimed its first victim, although the mystery is still unsolved. — Patti Hart — the Yahoo director in charge of the search that resulted in the hiring of Scott Thompson as its CEO … | Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
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HP unveils Envy Spectre XT Ultrabook, other thin-and-lights in various sizes — What's that? You're hungry for more HP laptops? Good! Because we're not nearly done yet! The company just expanded its line of Ultrabooks from two to five, and that's not even counting this guy.| Zohair Hyder / Gmail Blog: |
A better Google+ notification experience in email — Notification emails are a great way to keep up with what's happening in the Google+ stream: whether someone mentions you, comments on your post, or shares with you directly. It's not always enough to just read these updates, however … | Elinor Mills / CNET: |
Thousands of Twitter passwords exposed — Twitter is investigating the release of what appear to be thousands of user account passwords and e-mail addresses. — “We are currently looking into the situation. In the meantime, we have pushed out password resets to accounts that may have been affected … | Alex Payne: |
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StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp Steps Down, 10 Years Later — Garrett Camp, the co-founder and long-time CEO of Web discovery service StumbleUpon, is moving on. Or up, you could say — Camp will now be chairman of the board, while the company undertakes a public search for a new CEO.| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Andreessen Horowitz Confirms Its Scout Program, Calls Out Lazy Angels Who Hate Competition — It's all coming out now. — Andreessen Horowitz Partners has just confirmed that it too has been operating a stealthy scout program. — In case you missed it, last week we uncovered … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
New iPad Coming to 30 Additional Countries Including Brazil on May 11 and 12 — As revealed by Apple's iPad selection page for Latin America, the new iPad will be launching in 13 new countries in that region this Friday, May 11. The most significant new addition is Brazil … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
AT&T Mobility CEO: Family data plan coming soon (scoop) — AT&T's Ralph de la Vega says he feels good about the plan, a reversal of the uncertainty he expressed just a few months ago. NEW ORLEANS—AT&T's version of the family data plan may be coming sooner than you think.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Nano-SIM update: Apple design modified to fix concerns, standard will be decided this month — We just spoke with SIM card maker (and pioneer) Giesecke & Devrient here at CTIA about progress on the creation of the 4FF standard — the so-called nano-SIM — over which Apple and Nokia have been warring in recent months.| Sinead Carew / Reuters: |
AT&T plans small cell tests around year end — (Reuters) - AT&T Inc plans to start testing new wireless network devices known as “small cells” later this year hoping to boost its network coverage, a top executive for the telephone company said on Tuesday. — John Donovan, executive vice president … | Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM: |
Fred Wilson: what crowdfunding means for the VC business — For the past couple of decades, venture capitalists have had the upper hand. They've had the funding and, traditionally, they've held most of the power in the startup ecosystem. But, Fred Wilson, managing partner of Union Square Ventures … | Caleb Garling / Wired: |
Google and Oracle Enter Round Two of Heavyweight Legal Fight — Google and Oracle have moved into phase two of their epic legal battle. Photo: f-l-e-x/Flickr — After the jury returned a partial verdict in the copyright phase of the Google-Oracle trial — unable to decide whether Google's recreation … | Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
This is the type of photo you'll be able to take with Google's Project Glass — Google is teasing us about the future of its “Project Glass”, the glasses that will help you navigate the world, or just take really awesome pictures like this: — The team is asking you to suggest the type … | Ben Rudolph / The Windows Blog: |
Smoked by Windows Phone by the numbers (and new ads!) — When I kicked off Smoked by Windows Phone at CES in January, I did it with one thing in mind - show the world that Windows Phone is simply faster at the everyday stuff that people do on their smartphones.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator-Backed Swiftype Builds Site Search That Doesn't Suck — In my four-plus years covering tech, I don't think I've ever met another blogger who was happy with the search feature on their website. The options range from terrible to functional, but it's never good … | AppleInsider: |
Apple accidentally reveals iCloud.com banner notifications — A test of a new banner notification feature at Apple's official iCloud website was mistakenly made public on Tuesday, revealing a forthcoming feature for the service. — Users who visited the iCloud.com website could find … | Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: |
Foursquare CEO Reveals Plans for Personalized Coupons — Foursquare doesn't want to be another popular—but unprofitable—social network. Its new plan to make money? Personalized coupons. — The company, which lets users alert their friends to their location by “checking in” … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sean Parker's Stealth Video Startup Airtime Ready For Launch At June 5th Press Event — Airtime looks to be finally ready for takeoff, as Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning's stealth video startup just put up a blog stating “We look forward to saying hello on June 5th. Sign up to be first in line.”
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:23 AM ET, May 9, 2012.
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