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Hulu CEO faces big changes — Jason Kilar set for mega payday; owners to alter content deals — “Outline transition plan for new CEO. Discuss potential candidates and process.” — These sentences are the topmost bullet points of a confidential internal memo regarding the business of Hulu obtained by Variety.
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The Facebook - Amazon comparison — Henry Blodget gives some healthy perspective on Facebook's stock price in Dear Facebook Employees Here's the Truth About Your Stock Price. Don't I wish that Business Insider had a social reader on Facebook so I could see how many Facebook employees had read the article.
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
New Wave of Adept Robots Is Changing Global Industry — DRACHTEN, the Netherlands — At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way. — At a sister factory … | Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: The Next Wave for the Wristwatch — Cellphones have already muscled onto watches' turf as a time-telling tool. Now, some of the biggest technology companies are eyeing your wrist, too. — Companies like Apple, Nike and Sony, along with dozens of start-ups, hope to strap a device on your wrist.
Tweets: @billg
| Amy Feldman / Reuters: |
Crowdfunded businesses may owe taxes, too — (Reuters) - When Julie Uhrman, chief executive of gaming start-up Ouya Inc, went looking for funding to launch a new video gaming console, she turned to crowdfunding site Kickstarter Inc. — The goal: $950,000.
Tweets: @glennf
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Cloud-gaming service OnLive reveals details behind its asset sale and new investor — After a wave of criticism about how it treated its employees, cloud-gaming service OnLive revealed details behind the sale of its assets to a newly formed company. — The new company will continue …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
One Month After Selling To Microsoft For $1.2B, Yammer CEO Predicts End Of Silicon Valley — There is a pretty fascinating debate happening right now on David Sacks' Facebook page. Exactly one month after the Yammer sale to Microsoft closed, Sacks is feeling pretty bearish about the startup ecosystem.
Tweets: @mbaratz
| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Microsoft to build more than 3 million Surface tablets, says IDC — Redmond is getting set to build millions of Surface tablets, an IDC analyst tells CNET. And the price? Only Microsoft knows but IDC has some thoughts on the subject. — Microsoft is expected to build a little … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
AT&T kills on-contract pricing for tablets, effective today — Subsidized pricing for tablets has never made much sense — saving $100 upfront in exchange for getting locked in to a very expensive data plan isn't what we'd call a good deal — and now AT&T is getting rid of the option for good.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
You for Sale: Electronic Scores Rank Consumers by Potential Value — AMERICANS are obsessed with their scores. Credit scores, G.P.A.'s, SAT's, blood pressure and cholesterol levels — you name it. — So here's a new score to obsess about: the e-score, an online calculation that is assuming … | Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM: |
A rare look inside Facebook's Oregon data center [photos, video] — Follow along our tour as we take you on a rare journey through Facebook's first data center in Prineville Oregon, which houses its Open Compute servers. We'll bring you along the air flow route, and down into the secret server room:
Tweets: @omelnikov
| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Alleged Droid RAZR HD surfaces in leaked tutorial videos — The past few months have seen plenty of leaks and rumors surrounding the Droid RAZR HD, purported to be the next flagship handset from Motorola. Now, the device may have officially appeared on video, thanks to five leaked tutorials that surfaced over the weekend.
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Droid Life, Android and Me, Engadget, 9to5Google, Android News, Rumours … and PhoneArena
| Joe Pollicino / Engadget: |
Sony quietly outs Xperia SL: dual-core 1.7GHz Snapdragon S3, four hues — That oft-rumored successor to the Sony Xperia S smartphone, the Xperia SL? Sony's now officially listing the 4.3-inch GSM device as “coming soon” on its website, along with full details and specs.Sponsor Posts
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Unison's blog:
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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