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| AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Japan's Rakuten Wins the Heart of Pinterest in $100M Funding Race With $1.5B Valuation — Rakuten, the largest e-commerce site in Japan, is expected to be the lead investor in the much-contested next round of funding for Silicon Valley's hottest start-up, Pinterest.
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The Register, VentureBeat, CNET, Guardian, Marketing Land, CNET, Softpedia News, Practical Blogging, Reuters, WebProNews, Communications …, Mashable!, Wall Street Journal, ConversionRater, Tech in Asia, The Next Web, PE Hub Blog and paidContent
Tweets: @rafat, @nichcarlson, @benparr, @karaswisher, @pkafka and @gmc
| Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Blog: |
Rakuten CEO on why Pinterest is worth $1.5bn — Rakuten has led a $100m funding round into Pinterest, which values the online “curation” community at around $1.5bn. — The Japanese ecommerce giant won out over major US venture capital firms who were vying for a piece of Silicon Valley's new sweetheart …
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Business Insider and TechCrunch
| Sunlen Miller / ABCNEWS: |
Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook's Saverin's Tax ‘Scheme’ — Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again.
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CNET and TechCrunch
| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
A Facebook Co-Founder Reflects on the Path Forward — Eduardo Saverin can escape the United States, but he can't slip Facebook. — “Everything I do in my personal life, in my professional life, it's completely there,” said Mr. Saverin, a Facebook co-founder, in his first major interview.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
US-citizenship renouncing Facebook cofounder Saverin may be effectively banned from the country — Oh dear, I don't think that too many people saw this coming. I do hope that Eduardo Saverin did, however, as his move to renounce his US citizenship may carry a penalty …
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Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg, WebProNews and Business Insider
| Business Week: |
How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked the Valley — In 2006, when he was 22, Mark Zuckerberg gave up writing computer code to focus on managing his rapidly growing startup. Like Jim Brown retiring from football at 29 or E.M. Forster abandoning the novel in his forties, the prodigy who programmed … | DealBook: |
Ahead of Facebook I.P.O., a Skeptical Madison Ave. — With Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has created a seemingly perfect home on the Web, one where people feel comfortable chatting with friends, playing games, sharing photos and videos, listening to music and revealing the most intimate details of their lives.
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Venture Capital Dispatch, Business Insider and Reuters
| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
| Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog: |
Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings — Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today I'm really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph …
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Search Engine Journal, Softpedia News, eWeek, Examiner, DevOpsANGLE, Bits, Techie Buzz, Google Operating System, Business Insider, The Next Web, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Reuters, WebProNews, Los Angeles Times, PC Magazine, ABCNEWS, CNN, USA Today, Techland, memeburn, UMBC ebiquity, Lifehacker, TechCrunch, Neowin, Pulse2 Technology … and PC World
Tweets: @theromit, @harrymccracken, @scepticgeek and @mattcutts
| Christopher Dawson / ZDNet: |
Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Netflix launches sexy new web-based video player — Netflix just rolled out a completely revamped video player for browser-based viewing, and I gotta say, it's pretty slick: Not only does it come with lightbox-like text overlays while a video is paused, users can also preview entire seasons …
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Gizmodo, PC World, The Official Netflix Blog, TechSpot, CNET, Digital Trends, GadgeTell, Pocket-lint, Hacking NetFlix, SlashGear, Engadget, BuzzFeed, The Verge, The Next Web, PC Magazine and VentureBeat. Thanks:@cordcutters. See also Mediagazer
| Emil Protalinski / ZDNet: |
The Pirate Bay returns, Anonymous hater takes credit for DDoS — Summary: The Pirate Bay is back online. An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre has claimed responsibility for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that kept the site offline for days.
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SecurityWeek, about.piratereverse.info and Softpedia News
| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Retina MacBook screens: Already here — and pricey — A pixelated MacBook screen. — (Credit: CNET) — Apple is said to be on the verge of rolling out new high-resolution displays for its computers that, up until now, have only been available on its iPhones and iPads.
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MacRumors, The Tech Report, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, Los Angeles Times, 9to5Mac, MacNN and iClarified
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
HTC shipping custom Android builds on US devices to avoid Apple patents — The HTC One X for AT&T and Evo 4G LTE for Sprint already bear the distinction of being the first Android devices to face an import block at US Customs for potentially infringing an Apple patent, but the ignominy may be fleeting … | Matthew Braga / Ars Technica: |
Say hello to the real real-time Web — It's not just a buzzword, but a technological shift—the instantly accessible Web. — Real-time technologies are making Web apps faster—and in some cases, indistinguishable from desktop apps. — Garret Voight — It started with a simple idea … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Sleepover Time! All-Night Hackathon Precedes Facebook IPO At Headquarters — Carrying on in the esteemed tradition of Facebook hackathons, there will be an all-nighter on Thursday at the company's Menlo Park headquarters that culminates with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing in the NASDAQ bell ahead …
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Business Insider, PE Hub Blog, AllThingsD, ZDNet and Inside Facebook
| Antony Savvas / Computerworld UK Public Sector: |
Met Police uses ‘quick’ mobile data extraction system against suspects — Police will have immediate access to data on handset — The Metropolitan Police has rolled out a mobile device data extraction system to allow officers to extract data “within minutes” from suspects' phones while they are in custody.
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The Verge, TechEye and Boing Boing
| Sue Marek / FierceWireless: |
Verizon will kill ‘grandfathered’ unlimited data plans, push users to data share — Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) plans to eliminate the $30 per month unlimited data plan that it still provides to 3G customers who were “grandfathered” into the plan because they were data customers prior …
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Geek.com, Android News, Rumours …, blog.chron.com, TUAW, Network World, AppleTell, CNET, Ars Technica, Know Your Cell, GigaOM, Engadget, AllTwitter, The Loop, Examiner, Tecca, Los Angeles Times, Digital Trends, DailyTech, The Verge, Macgasm, WebProNews, AllThingsD, Light Reading, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone, AndroidGuys, App Advice, Pocketables, VentureBeat, dailywireless.org, Reuters, BGR, SlashGear, Bits, androinica.com, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneNews.com, Fast Company, MacRumors, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, CNNMoney.com, ZDNet, The Seattle Times, DSLreports, PC Magazine, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo, iClarified, PhoneArena and 9to5Mac
| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Facebook rolling out new “Pages Manager” app for iPhone — Facebook has just broken out another feature of their main app and released Pages Manager for the iPhone. The app appears to function just like the main Facebook app, but with all of the features dedicated to fan pages.| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Google's bots learn to read interactive webpages more like humans — Google can now index parts of the Web that weren't indexable before — Google feeds its search engine's index with site data from a virtual army of “bots”—Web-crawling applications that scour sites for content.
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Engadget and swapped.cc/blog
| Emil Protalinski / ZDNet: |
Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last three days — Summary: The Pirate Bay is down. Wikileaks is down. Visa was down. Are all these Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks a coincidence? Right now it's not clear, but something is definitely happening.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Even as Settlement Hopes Appear, Facebook Blames Shoddy Checking in Answer to Yahoo Patent Fraud Claim — When last we tuned in to the ongoing drama that is the patent infringement lawsuit Yahoo aimed at Facebook, Yahoo had a CEO — Scott Thompson — who was full steam ahead in pressing the controversial legal action.
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FOSS Patents, ZDNet, CNET, TechRadar.com and Softpedia News
| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
The Weather Channel launches redesigned iOS app, with new social, local and personal features — The Weather Channel has rolled out a new version of its iOS app which sees a massive interface overhaul and a number of key new features introduced. — Launched in the UK in July 2001 …
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TechCrunch and The Verge
| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Flashback makers missed out on their payday, Symantec says — The high-profile Flashback Trojan that is estimated to have infected more than 600,000 Macs at its peak earlier this year would have earned its creators $14,000 in the course of three weeks. — The only hitch is that the money isn't going anywhere.
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Softpedia News, Bloomberg Tech Blog, MacRumors and Ars Technica
| Nancy Messieh / The Next Web: |
Anonymous takes down Indian government sites in response to clampdown on The Pirate Bay, Vimeo and others — Anonymous have just successfully taken down their latest target, this time setting their sights on the Indian authorities, The DNetworks reports. — One of the Anonymous Twitter accounts … | Hyunhu Jang / The Verge: |
LG Optimus LTE 2 and Optimus UI 3.0 hands-on (update: video) — We just wrapped up a launch event for the LG Optimus LTE 2 here in Korea, and there's little doubt that it's LG's flagship play. The center of attention is definitely the screen: the phone boasts a 720p, 4.7-inch IPS display that looks pretty great to our eyes.
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Engadget, BGR and Wall Street Journal
| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Google launches Schemer app for the iPhone — Google's social team has had a lot of love for iOS lately: Just days after rolling out a revamped iPhone app for Google+, the company now released an iOS app for its social activity service Schemer. The app mimics Schemer's Android app in form … Sponsor Posts
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Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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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