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Investors Don't Like Acqui-hires — Sarah Lacy wrote about acqui-hires this weekend on Pando Daily. She got some things wrong. — The main problem is her argument doesn't work on its face. The logic breaks. — She says that all the interested parties love acqui-hires …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Barry Diller Shows Up Late, Gets What He Wants: IAC to Buy About.com From New York Times — The New York Times, which was set to sell its About.com unit to Answers.com, now looks ready to sell it to Barry Diller instead. — People familiar with the transaction say the Times now plans … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Dropbox two-step verification security option to lock down your files available to test now — Everyone knows that your primary email account is the lynchpin of your digital security: if someone gains access to that it's likely you could face quite a bit of damage, not unlike what happened to Mat Honan earlier this month.
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VentureBeat, The Next Web, iMore, Gizmodo, Digital Inspiration …, Business Insider, Techdows, BetaNews and Lifehacker. Tweets: @mattcutts
| Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times: |
Samsung scrambles to recover after uppercut — Samsung Electronics' uphill court battle against Apple in the United States over intellectual property patent infringement now looks insurmountable after a jury in San Jose awarded the American technology giant an overwhelming victory.| Ben Sisario / Media Decoder: |
Pandora and Spotify Rake in the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties — If you have read anything about digital music recently, you have probably encountered two names over and over: Spotify and Pandora. Both offer an abundance of free listening on easy-to-use interfaces, and music fans have embraced them.
Tweets: @brittneybean and @bwerde
| Cam Simpson / Business Week: |
The Deadly Tin Inside Your Smartphone — On May 29, in the bottom of a tin-mining pit on Bangka Island in Indonesia, a wall about 16 feet high collapsed, sending a wave of earth crashing down on a 40-year-old father of two. His name was Rosnan. The dirt crushed his legs …
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Business Insider, The Verge, GMSV and Ars Technica
| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: At Box, a Fast-Moving Chief Immersed in the Cloud — LOS ALTOS, Calif. — It's about 20 minutes into my lunch interview with Aaron Levie, co-founder of Box, at the headquarters of the online data storage company, and he still doesn't have any food. — “Are you eating?”
Tweets: @msquinn
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Book Reviewers for Hire Meet a Demand for Online Raves — TODD RUTHERFORD was 7 years old when he first understood the nature of supply and demand. He was with a bunch of other boys, one of whom showed off a copy of Playboy to giggles and intense interest.| Avi Charkham / TechCrunch: |
5 Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions — Editor's note: Avi Charkham is Head of Product & Design @ lool ventures, an early stage, value-add venture capital firm based in Israel and the incubators of MyPermissions personal cloud security service.
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Boing Boing and Gizmodo
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Sequoia Capital's Latest $975 Million Raise Is All About International — It looks like Sequoia Capital finally closed in on that cash we've been hearing about. — We've heard that the firm has raised three separate funds for U.S., China and Israeli investments.
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
With A San Francisco Launch Imminent, Lyft Is Doubling Its Fleet Of Drivers And Readying An Android App — It's been just eight weeks since Zimride's ride-sharing service, Lyft, was launched in beta, providing San Francisco users a low-cost alternative to cabs and Ubers.
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VoIP Watch and GigaOM
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Will Apple now sue Google? — Maybe eventually. But Apple is working its way up the food chain, and it's got a full plate — FORTUNE — There was an elephant in the courtroom when Apple (AAPL) won its billion-dollar patent infringement award against Samsung Friday, and its name is Google (GOOG).
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VatorNews, brian s hall, TechnoBuffalo, Redmond Pie, Neowin, The Register and Gizmodo. Tweets: @danfrakes
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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