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MSNBC.com Renamed to NBCNews.com as Microsoft and NBC Divorce — On Sunday night, MSNBC.com did something that successful Web sites almost never do: it renamed itself. — The site became NBCNews.com, signifying the end of a relationship between NBC and Microsoft that dates back to the earliest days of the commercial Web.
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| 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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| Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life: |
Some Thoughts on App.net — A few weeks ago Dalton Caldwell, founder of imeem and Picplz, wrote a well received blog post titled What Twitter could have been where he laments the fact that Twitter hasn't fulfilled some of the early promise developers saw in it as a platform. Specifically he writes| Loren Feldman / New York Times: |
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.| 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 …
Tweets: @alhui
| 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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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Here is why Facebook bought Spool — Over the weekend, news reports emerged that Facebook was buying Spool, a mobile-oriented social bookmarking service started by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer. At the surface, this seems like yet another acqua-hire but scratch a little deeper and you start …
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| David A. Bell / The New Republic: |
The Bookless Library — Don't deny the change. Direct it wisely. — I. — THEY ARE, in their very different ways, monuments of American civilization. The first is a building: a grand, beautiful Beaux-Arts structure of marble and stone occupying two blocks' worth of Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan.
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Linux developers working on Windows UEFI secure boot problem — Summary: With Windows 8 PCs with UEFI secure boot locked PCs on its way, Linux developers are working on addressing its problems. — Follow @sjvn — We all know that Windows 8 PCs will come locked up tight Microsoft's UEFI … | 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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| Lee Chyen Yee / Reuters: |
China's Lenovo inches closer to a global tech title — * Outlook clouded by slowing growth in PC market — * Market share gains come at expense of margins - analysts — * Lenovo stock up 16 pct this year,outperforms global rivals — Lenovo Group Ltd is on track to overtake Hewlett-Packard Co …
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Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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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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99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
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University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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