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Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown — Orca, the Romney campaign's “killer” app, skips beta and pays the price. — Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock — It was supposed to be a “killer app,” but a system deployed to volunteers by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign may have done …
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| Natalie Jennings / Washington Post: |
Romney digital director: Orca wasn't a loss — The digital director for the Romney campaign responded to criticism in the blogosphere of the campaign's Election-Day “Orca” vote monitoring platform, saying the program had issues but for the most part performed its mission.
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Killer fail: how Romney's broken Orca app cost him thousands of votes — An attempt to harness big data turns into a nightmare of crashes and confusion — A few days before the presidential election, Mitt Romney's campaign announced what it hoped would be its secret weapon at the polls.
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
HootSuite privacy fail sees hundreds of emails sent to users, complete with other people's details [updated] — There appears to be something wrong with the internal systems over at social management company HootSuite, after it started sending out email reminders to users warning … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Shellacked: Groupon fell 30% today in regular trading as investors unloaded the firm following its weak Q3 — Yesterday after the bell, Groupon reported its quarterly earnings. The company, losing a mere $3 million during the quarter, had earnings per share of $0.00, and revenue of $568.6 million.
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| Michael Kan / Computerworld: |
Google access returns to China after brief blocking — Access was cut off for about 12 hours — Access to Google services in China appeared to return Saturday morning after they were blocked briefly as the country prepares to appoint new leadership. — The blocking appeared …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
U.S. WikiLeaks Criminal Probe ‘Ongoing,’ Judge Reveals — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures in August after his statement to the media and supporters on a balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London. Photo: AP — A 2-year-old federal grand jury probe … | Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
David Petraeus Was Brought Down by ... Gmail — The CIA director's path to resignation began with some email messages. — Reuters/Joshua Roberts — While David Petraeus was serving as a four-star general in the U.S. Army, he began exchanging emails with the woman who would eventually write his biography.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
ToyTalk, the AI toy company founded by Ex-Pixar talent, gets $11.5M from Charles Rivers Ventures — ToyTalk, the artificial intelligence toy company founded by ex-Pixar and SRI talent has recieved $11.5M in Series-A funding from Charles Rivers Ventures. The funding round was discovered … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
After $368.2m award in patent lawsuit, VirnetX files another complaint against Apple — VirnetX, the Internet security software company that was awarded $368.2 million after a jury decided that Apple had infringed several of its patents, has filed another complaint against the Cupertino, CA-based consumer electronics giant.
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| Samantha Murphy / Mashable!: |
Facebook Experiments With ‘Reply’ Button on Comments — Facebook isn't just testing a sound-alert function on the site — it's also experimenting with a reply option for comments posted to Timeline, a Facebook spokesperson has confirmed. — “We are testing a new way to add comments to a post on Facebook … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Study Shows Airbnb Is Good for San Francisco, Says Airbnb — Peer-to-peer accommodation site Airbnb commissioned an independent economic development study to show that it's having a positive effect on the San Francisco economy. — Airbnb helps freelancers and lower-income residents pay …
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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“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).
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