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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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Tweets: @rafat, @benparr, @nichcarlson, @gmc, @pkafka and @karaswisher
| 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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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, CNET and WebProNews
| 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, 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 …
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Bloomberg Tech Blog
| 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, Techno-tainers, Reuters, Fortune and Reuters
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
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CNN, CNNMoney.com, Business Insider, PE Hub Blog, ZDNet, AllThingsD and Inside Facebook
| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
| Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Twitter Implements Do Not Track Privacy Option — It's no secret that Facebook is worth about $100 billion because it collected personal data about its users. A lot of data. — Although Twitter tracks its users too — albeit in a much less aggressive way — the company has decided to take a different route.
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The Verge, Digital Trends, Betabeat, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Marketing Pilgrim and BuzzFeed. Tweets: @twitter
| 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 … | 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.| 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 … | 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, CNET, TechSpot, GadgeTell, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, Hacking NetFlix, SlashGear, Engadget, BuzzFeed, The Verge, The Next Web and PC Magazine. Thanks:@cordcutters. See also Mediagazer
| 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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ZDNet, Edible Apple, MacRumors, The Tech Report, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, Los Angeles Times, 9to5Mac and MacNN
| Sinead Carew / Reuters: |
FCC chooses spectrum for wireless medical devices — (Reuters) - The U.S. telecommunications regulator is expected to announce plans on Thursday to set aside spectrum to connect wireless medical devices for more convenient health monitoring. — The Federal Communications Commission …
| 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
| 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 … | Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
White House's cybersecurity official retiring — The White House's cybersecurity coordinator said Thursday that he is stepping down at the end of this month after a 2 1 / 2-year tenure in which the administration has increased its focus on cyber issues but struggled to reach agreement …
| 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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Bloomberg Tech Blog, Neowin, Softpedia News, MacRumors and Ars Technica
| 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.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Plastic Logic shutters US offices, gets out of making its own e-readers — Plastic Logic has something of a rollercoaster history, having had to drop the QUE proReader before it even shipped and getting a $700 million cash injection that ultimately swung its attention to Russian schoolchildren.
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GigaOM
| 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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Business Insider, TechCrunch and The Verge
| 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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PC Magazine, ZDNet, WebProNews, TechRadar.com, CNET, FOSS Patents and Softpedia News
| 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
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Pipe: file sharing in the Facebook age is about to get real — The appeal of Pipe can't be witnessed on paper, but is instead evident in its visual simplicity. You drag a file from your desktop onto a Super Mario-esque green pipe on your screen and the file disappears … | 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 … | Rebecca Mackinnon / Foreign Policy: |
The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police — Activists are fighting to rein them in. — In 2005, Peter Mahnke, a resident of the English town of St. Margaret's, Middlesex, set up a community website. For the past seven years, he and a handful of local volunteers have been publishing regular updates … 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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