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Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987 — A lot is at stake when a company changes its logo, and Microsoft changed it a number of times in its early years. — For the first time in 25 years, Microsoft is changing its corporate logo. — Microsoft, which has used its solid … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils its new logo, 25 years after the original — Microsoft has just unveiled a new look and feel to its corporate logo. Following 25 years from its first introduction, this is the first major Microsoft logo change in the company's history.
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| Dustin Curtis / dcurt.is: |
Black Widow — Twitter has an enormous advantage over Facebook in one key area: while people on Facebook tend to friend their friends, people on Twitter tend to follow their interests. The following graph from Twitter is worth far more on a per-account basis because it is directly monetizable …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Tumblr becomes next property after Instagram to have Twitter friend-finding privileges revoked — Updated below with Tumblr's confirmation. — The enormous blogging platform Tumblr appears to have become the next property after Instagram to have its friend-finding privileges revoked.
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Dave McClure is ripping VCs again: They're f***ing arrogant and stupid a**holes — Dave McClure on his way to BC on “Geeks on a Train.” Photo via Kyle Kesterson. — Dave McClure is not your typical venture capitalist. He wears T-shirts and flip flops, and cusses like a sailor.
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| Rachel Metz / Technology Review: |
Fred Wilson — The well-known investor behind the likes of Twitter and Foursquare says venture capital funds have gotten too big. — Fred Wilson, managing partner at Union Square Ventures, is a preëminent figure in venture capital. He's been at it for 25 years …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Video Comparison of ‘iPhone 5’ Front Panel and Flex Cables to iPhone 4S Parts [iOS Blog] — Repair firm SmartPhone Medic has just posted a new video comparing several parts from the next-generation iPhone to their counterparts from the iPhone 4S. — The parts shown include the front panel … | Charles Starrett / iLounge: |
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Mac OS 10.8.1 Mountain Lion released, fixes issues in Thunderbolt, Exchange, Migration assistant, iMessages and more … Apple just released OSX 10.8.1 Mountain Lion via Software Update. The delta update weighs a paltry 7.28MB on my Retina MacBook Pro, but your mileage may vary.
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| Troy Wolverton / Mercury News: |
OnLive owed $30 million to $40 million, was facing imminent shutdown — At the time of its insolvency last week, streaming game company OnLive was in far greater trouble than was publicly known. — The company owed $30 million to $40 million to various creditors and had little money to pay them.
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
LG says started production of new screen, as Apple plans product launch — (Reuters) - Flat-screen maker LG Display has started mass production of a new and thinner display, widely speculated to be for use in Apple Inc's next iPhone, and the display's production schedule remains in line … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia set to unveil ‘Arrow’ and ‘Phi’ Windows Phone 8 handsets with AT&T as main carrier — Nokia is planning to unveil two new Windows Phone 8 devices at a joint event with Microsoft on September 5th. Sources familiar with the two companies' plans have revealed that Nokia is working on an … | Wall Street Journal: |
When Freemium Fails — A growing number of new businesses are following in the footsteps of successful companies such as Dropbox Inc., LinkedIn Corp., and Skype Inc., by giving away their products and services free to build a customer base. — Yet for some, the “freemium” … | Dennis Fisher / threatpost: |
Google Building Privacy Red Team — Google, which has come under fire for years for its privacy practices and recently settled a privacy related case with the Federal Trade Commission that resulted in a $22.5 million fine, is building out a privacy “red team”, a group of people charged … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sony Mobile To Lay Off 1,000 People, Move HQ To Tokyo From Sweden As Part of Restructuring — The crunch among handset makers who are not Samsung and Apple continues apace. Today, Android OEM Sony announced that its loss-making mobile handset division Sony Mobile Communications would be laying …
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| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
Techies Fight to Save Hacker Dojo, a Popular Silicon Valley Work Space — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Hacker Dojo is equal parts shared office, lecture hall and after-hours salon for a variety of tinkerers, software coders and entrepreneurs who intend to reinvent the future. The idea for Pinterest was cooked up here.
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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
TVGuide.com's new iOS app: social TV for the mainstream — Christy Tanner is a little bit like the Marissa Mayer of social TV. Tanner, who is the EVP and GM of TVGuide.com and TV Guide Mobile, has a huge audience - but most of those users aren't exactly Foursquare- and Instagram-using Silicon Valley insiders.
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Gizmodo, CNET, Lost Remote, App Advice, Betabeat, The Verge, TUAW, Engadget, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Why The OFT And FTC Let Facebook Buy Instagram: FB Camera Is Tiny, IG Makes No Money, And Google — Evidence from Facebook and Instagram plus analysis from outside experts has convinced the Federal Trade Commission to today approve the landmark acquisition.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
In Google's Inner Circle, a Falling Number of Women — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — At Google, data is king. Now the company is using data to figure out if it can anoint a few queens. — The company hopes its famous algorithms can solve one of the most vexing problems facing Silicon Valley: how to recruit and retain more women.| Ryan Singel / Wired: |
Sabu Gets 6-Month Sentencing Delay for Continuing to Help Feds — Sabu, the hacker who turned informant on the rampaging Anonymous offshoots Antisec and LulzSec, is getting a six-month reprieve from being sentenced on 12 counts of violating federal law, due to his continued cooperation with the feds, prosecutors told a court Tuesday.
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
‘Wiki Weapon Project’ Aims To Create A Gun Anyone Can 3D-Print At Home — An AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and a 3D-printed lower receiver for the weapon shown below it. Both images were posted Defense Distributed's website. — Cody Wilson has a simple dream: To design the world's first firearm … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Nokia, Samsung, Sony Mobile and others form In-Location Alliance, seek to boost indoor positioning technologies — Mobile giants Nokia, Samsung, Sony Mobile and nineteen other companies have combined to form the In-Location Alliance, a cooperative that seeks to drive forward innovation … | Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
VMware launches with Windows 8 support, Parallels coming September 4th — If you're looking to run Windows on your Mac, there's good news as both Parallels and VMware have announced new versions of their virtualization software. Parallels Desktop 8 is set to launch on September 4th …
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