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Goldman Sachs and a Sale Gone Horribly Awry — THE business deal from hell began to crumble even before the Champagne corks were popped. — The deal, the $580 million sale of a highflying technology company, Dragon Systems, had just been approved by its board and congratulations were being exchanged.| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
In Defense Of Free — I have written so much about free here at AVC that it should be called AVFree. In fact, I've even written a post with this exact same title (almost exactly seven years ago, the summer we invested in twitter, zynga, and tumblr). — I haven't touched this subject …
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Microsoft Isn't The Only Tech Company Doing Forced Employee Ranking — Microsoft has been taking a lot of heat over its employee review process known as “forced ranking” or “stack ranking.” — But Microsoft is far from the only tech company doing it. — We've heard from employees at Dell …
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Zuckerberg Says Mobile Shift Is His Biggest Challenge — Facebook Inc. (FB) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said his hardest job right now is figuring out how to adapt the world's largest social network to mobile devices. — Bringing Facebook's features to handheld gadgets …
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| Torie Bosch / Slate: |
How Kate Middleton's Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia's Woman Problem — According to Wikipedia's 2011 Editor Survey, just 9 percent of Wiki editors are women. While the gender gap is better than it was—in the early '00s, it was more like 3 percent—and the proportion of new editors …
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The Verge and The Huffington Post
| Klint Finley / TechCrunch: |
What Exactly Is GitHub Anyway? — Andreessen Horowitz announced a whopping $100 million investment in GitHub this week. You can read commentary and speculation all over the web about what GitHub will do with the money, whether this was a good investment for Andreessen Horowitz and whether taking … | Nancy Owano / Phys.org: |
Finland team uses Earth's magnetic field for phone indoor positioning system — (Phys.org) — Finland-based engineers have worked up a novel approach toward an indoor positioning system (IPS) inspired by the way certain animals—from homing pigeons to spiny lobsters—navigate their way with the help …
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| John D. Stoll / Wall Street Journal: |
Nokia Cuts U.S. Price of Flagship Phone in Half — The price of Nokia Corp.'s flagship Lumia 900 Windows phone has been cut in half in the critical U.S. market, a little more than three months after the launch of the smartphone at AT&T Inc. stores. — The Lumia 900 hit the market …
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| Emil Protalinski / CNET: |
Facebook endorses Google's SPDY networking protocol — Facebook has settled on a networking protocol for speeding up web content delivery. In a W3 mailing list post titled “HTTP2 Expression of Interest,” Facebook engineer Doug Beaver outlined why the company has started implementing the SPDY protocol …
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| Christopher S. Stewart / Wall Street Journal: |
In Age of Twitter, NBC Rewrites Olympic Playbook — In NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters, workers were hustling Friday to transform the “Saturday Night Live” sound stage into a command center for coverage of the 2012 Olympics Games. — Much of this is familiar territory for America's No. 3 network.
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| Marcus George / Reuters: |
Insight: Despite sanctions, Apple gear booms in Iran — (Reuters) - At its gleaming store, RadanMac offers the latest Apple gear - the new iPad, iPhones, iPods, laptops, all-in-one desktop computers and more. — But this is no ordinary Apple store. It's in Tehran, where Apple …
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Geekosystem, Gizmodo, Wall St. Cheat Sheet and PC Magazine
| MG Siegler: |
Requiem For A Digg — To me, the most interesting aspect of the Digg story is just how much of a central role the service has played in the larger story of our current tech scene. It was a key catalyst in the era of social that we now live in. And the company's diaspora has seeded many of the current crop of services we all use.
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