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Yes, Spotify Is Headed to the Web. No, Spotify Isn't Cutting Its Prices. — Waiting to use Spotify on the Web? Hang on a few weeks. — Waiting to pay $8 a month for Spotify's premium service? Don't hold your breath. — Yes, as TechCrunch reported yesterday, the streaming music company … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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HP Previews Windows 8 All-in-One PCs With NFC, Touchscreens — A little over a week ago, HP revealed some of its upcoming Windows 8 Ultrabooks and convertible PCs. Now, the company's playing show and tell with its new all-in-one PCs. — HP Spectre One — The HP Spectre One, HP Envy 23 …
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Computerworld, digitaltrends.com, ZDNet, ZDNet, Engadget, The Loop, VentureBeat, Electronista, Gizmodo, Mashable!, Windows 8 Beta, CNET, The Verge and BGR
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| Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba's New Goal: Taking On Android — HANGZHOU, China—While the technology industry is closely watching Apple Inc.'s patent war against rivals using Google Inc.'s Android mobile operating system, China already has homegrown software that is trying to take on Android in the country's fast-growing smartphone market.
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The Next Web, ZDNet and The Droid Guy
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Germany's Former First Lady Sues Google For Defamation Over Autocomplete Suggestions — When you search for “Bettina Wulff” on Google, the search engine will happily autocomplete this search with terms like “escort” and “prostitute.” That's obviously not something you would like to be associated … | Paul Graham: |
Black Swan Farming — I've done several types of work over the years but I don't know another as counterintuitive as startup investing. — The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few big winners …
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Business Insider. Tweets: @erickschonfeld, @stevenlevy, @codinghorror, @tophtucker, @arrington, @carnage4life and @qthrul
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Google Glass Meets Fashion, Smart Glasses To Be Part Of DVF Fashion Show — Google Glass — Google's smart glasses project — is heading into the new world of fashion. Designer Diane von Furstenberg and others have been using them to record preparations for the upcoming DVF Spring 2013 Fashion Show … | Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Warby Parker raises $37 million — Eyeglass maker can now see its future a bit clearer. — FORTUNE — Trendy eyeglass maker Warby Parker has raised $36.8 million in new venture capital funding, according to a regulatory filing that indicates the total round could top out at $40 million.| Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times: |
Lunch with the FT: Tim Berners-Lee — Over iced tea and eggplant pita, the inventor of the world wide web talks about Apple, Facebook and the digital divide — Sir Tim Berners-Lee is an intimidating interviewee. It's not so much the worry about keeping up with the brain that invented the world wide web …
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| Ashlee Vance / Business Week: |
The Startups on San Francisco's Billionaire's Row — In a city full of weird and wonderful thoroughfares, Broadway Street remains one of San Francisco's finest. It begins at the water's edge and runs past the Financial District, the strip clubs and Italian eateries of North Beach, and the eclectic mix of stores in bustling Chinatown.Thanks:@steverubel
| Alexandra Chang / Wired: |
How Katy Perry Inspired LinkedIn's Global Redesign — LinkedIn has Katy Perry on its mind. But not in the usual I-have-that-Firework-song-stuck-in-my- head way. The pop singer is the namesake, and underlying inspiration, for the company's largest product design undertaking since its launch in 2003.Thanks:@nateog
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Toys ‘R’ Us Rolls Out Its Own Tablet — In a bid to battle the “showrooming” phenomenon that is hurting big-box retailers, Toys “R” Us Inc. is expected to disclose Monday that it plans to sell a proprietary tablet designed for children. — The $149.99 Tabeo will be available only at Toys …
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ZDNet, Engadget and GamesIndustry International
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Bogus report of venture capitalist vice arrest seems to have cooled off Rosewood's ‘Cougar Night’ — MENLO PARK — The talk around Sand Hill Road last week was, “Who killed Cougar Night?” — For months, the five-star Rosewood Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley's venture capital community … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
180 Out Of 202 Kansas City ‘Fiberhoods’ Reach Their Google Fiber Pre-Registration Goals — Two weeks ago, things didn't look so great for Google Fiber, but after a last-minute push, 180 out of the 202 ‘fiberhoods’ in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri managed to reach Google's goals …
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CNET, New York Times, The Verge and Google Fiber Blog
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Do Our Gadgets Really Threaten Planes? — The ban on electronic devices rests on anecdotes, not on hard evidence—because there isn't any — WAS ALEC BALDWIN RIGHT? When the actor tussled with American Airlines personnel last December over his desire to continue playing a game …
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What's New With Windows Azure Virtual Networking — Learn about the latest developments in the Windows Azure Virtual Networking technology.
What's New With Windows Azure Virtual Networking — Learn about the latest developments in the Windows Azure Virtual Networking technology.
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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