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August 5, 2012, 3:45 PM

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Christopher Jackson / The Next Web:
Y Combinator's first batch: where are they now?  —  From small seeds grow mighty oaks.  —  When a tree grows, at what point do you say it has achieved success?  When it has reached its full height, and stopped growing?  When it has dropped seeds of its own, to produce new shoots to hopefully grow into their own huge trees?
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account  —  On Friday, Wired writer Mat Honan recounted the tale of how his iCloud account was hacked which resulted in his iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air getting remote wiped.  —  The point of entry appeared to be his iCloud account …
More: ZDNet, Forbes and Julie NgTweets: @mat
Mat Honan / Emptyage:
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
eBay Is Launching A Same-Day Shipping Service Called eBay Now  —  eBay today invited some San Francisco users to a new same-day shipping service called eBay Now.  An iOS app, eBay Now's beta will let SF residents get $5 same-day shipping on products from local stores.
Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Facebook Questions Has Died A Quiet Death  —  Has anyone seen Facebook Questions lately?  —  Oh sure, you've seen questions on Facebook.  And you've probably asked questions on facebook — the “Ask Question” option is alive and well on the status box, as you can see above.
Erin Geiger Smith / Reuters:
Analysis: Why Twitter apologized over NBC Olympics flap  —  (Reuters) - The microblogging site Twitter has been so abuzz about NBC's tape-delayed coverage of the Olympics that the #nbcfail hashtag was created last week as a way to consolidate criticism of the network.
More: Guardian
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Grum: Inside The Takedown Of One Of The World's Biggest Spam Networks  —  As Spring cracked the Moscow frosts and March rains doused the streets, a computer in an innocuous server farm somewhere in the heart of the city winked to life.  It was 2007, a year when many people became truly invested in online life.
More: The Verge
New York Times:
Nissan's Move to U.S. Offers Lessons for Tech Industry  —  SMYRNA, Tenn. — The dairy farms that once draped the countryside here were paved over so the Japanese carmaker Nissan could build its first American assembly plant.  Eighty miles to the south, another green pasture was replaced …
More: ForbesTweets: @chcktylr
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
4Chan reaches one billion posts  —  4Chan today announced an impressive new milestone — to date the site has seen a total of one billion posts.  The achievement was reached yesterday, though 4Chan points out that it's not quite sure which post was actually the billionth.
DealBook:
Trading Program Ran Amok, With No ‘Off’ Switch  —  When computerized stock trading runs amok, as it did this week on Wall Street, the firm responsible typically can jump in and hit a kill switch.  —  But as a torrent of faulty trades spewed Wednesday morning from a Knight Capital Group trading program …
More: TNL.net, Reuters and Slate

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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)
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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 …
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