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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Color Labs And Bill Nguyen Sued By Ex-Employee Alleging Retaliation, Emotional Distress — Today, Adam Witherspoon, a former employee of Color Labs who was laid off during the photo and video sharing startup's recent wind-down period filed suit against the company and its CEO Bill Nguyen alleging retaliation …
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The Verge, App Advice, SlashGear, TUAW, Betabeat, digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, CNET and iPhone Hacks
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a16z — VCs are experts at analyzing industries and identifying new opportunities, which is why it's odd that the VC industry itself has so stubbornly resisted change. — Two years ago I wrote a post where I argued that innovative new VC firms are finally starting to change this:
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Hunch, SiteAdvisor Founder And Angel Investor Chris Dixon Leaves eBay To Join Andreessen Horowitz As General Partner — Hunch and SiteAdvisor founder, and prolific angel investor Chris Dixon is leaving his current position at eBay to join Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google after antitrust: The good, the bad, and the ugly — U.S. and European antitrust regulators are poised to crack down on the dominant search company. What changes to Google search might the cases trigger? — Tim Carter was blindsided when his home-improvement site AsktheBuilder.com fell …
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Apple opens its first eBay store for a trial with select refurbished products — Seth Weintraub and Danny DeSilva contributed to this post. — Over the past few weeks we've been posting links to a mysterious Apple refurbished store that appeared on eBay about a month ago and has been hiding in plain site ever since.
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| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Exclusive: Internal Videos Show Why Microsoft Kin Cratered — Do you remember the Microsoft Kin? It's okay if you don't-Microsoft certainly would like for you to forget it ever existed. Kin was a family of phones from Microsoft that launched to much fanfare in 2010, sold incredibly poorly …
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| Paul Graham: |
How to Get Startup Ideas — The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. — The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want …
Tweets: @dalmaer, @prhaig and @artgillespie
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Starts Letting iOS Users Auto-Upload All Their Snapshots With Photo Sync — It's not just for Android anymore. Facebook has figured out how to enable background auto-uploads and is now testing Photo Sync with a few iOS users. A tipster got us a screenshot and Facebook confirms iOS Photo Sync …
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CNET, MacRumors, VentureBeat, TUAW, iPhone Hacks, Inside Facebook and AllFacebook. Thanks:@ryanlawler
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft investigating reported Windows Phone 8 reboots — Summary: Some Windows Phone 8 users (including yours truly) are experiencing spontaneous reboots and email sync problems. Microsoft officials say they are investigating. — Windows Phone 8 devices just started hitting the market … | Vinicius Vacanti / Entrepreneur: |
The Depressing Day After You Get TechCrunched — If you're a first-time reader, you can get future posts by subscribing via email or following me on Twitter. — Note: This post is loosely based on our experience 2 years ago when TechCrunch covered Yipit's launch.
Tweets: @karaswisher, @joshconstine, @janaboruta, @drummel and @nicferrier
| Intel: |
Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May — SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 19, 2012 - Intel Corporation today announced that the company's president and CEO, Paul Otellini, has decided to retire as an officer and director at the company's annual stockholders' meeting in May …
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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Google wants to take on Apple with an open AirPlay alternative — Google is working on an open alternative to Apple's AirPlay, and it's hoping to bring a number of device and software vendors on board to provide the industry with an open technology to exchange data between second screens and TV-connected devices.
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| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Yahoo shares reach 18-month high as investors warm to new CEO — (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc shares reached their highest level in a year and a half, as investor confidence grows that new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer can pull off a comeback that eluded three of her predecessors.
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
LEAKED: MySpace's Master Plan To Raise $50 Million And Relaunch As A Spotify Killer — The parent company of MySpace is trying to raise $50 million in order to re-launch MySpace as a direct competitor to Spotify and Pandora in 2013. — This is according to documents obtained by Business Insider, which we have included in this post.
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Oprah's attempt to promote the Microsoft Surface backfires: iPad used to send tweet — Oprah is out plugging the Surface for Microsoft, stating that she is buying several of the devices as gifts. — However, in sending out that specific tweet, she, or whoever was running her account that day …
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Tweets: @oprah, @qthrul, @davepell and @dannysullivan
| Tim Stevens / Engadget: |
Amazon Kindle Fire HD review (8.9-inch, 4G LTE) — What a difference a generation makes. While the original Kindle Fire impressed, there was only one thing that really made it worth considering: it was cheap. Really cheap. But, when we got our hands on the 7-inch … | Mark Hachman / ReadWrite: |
Windows 8 ‘Slow Going,’ But 2013 Should Be Better, Top Retailer Says — A senior executive at popular retailer NewEgg described the Windows 8 launch so far as not the “explosion” that the company originally planned for, but as slow and steadily improving. — From a software perspective …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Early builds of Apple's upcoming OS X 10.9 include Siri and Maps integration — Early builds in testing of the next-generation Mac operating system, OS X 10.9, point to Siri and Maps integration coming to Mac computers next year, according to our reliable sources.| Dominic Patten / Deadline.com: |
Disney Pulls Plug On Online Movie Service — Disney Movies Online will cease to exist at the end of the year, Disney announced today. The little-known Internet movie service will close as of December 31, said the company in an email to users and on the site.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Samsung pulls YouTube ad depicting computer ‘puppies’ being smashed — Samsung has removed an ad that featured computers that looked like puppies being destroyed by their owners. (YouTube) — How do you get people to buy a staid computer storage device?
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digitaltrends.com, CNET, Mashable!, Business Insider, Neowin, The Consumerist, BGR and WebProNews
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Is Among Those Mulling a TVGuide.com Bid for About $20 Million — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo is among the companies taking a serious gander at TVGuide.com, the online entertainment listings, video and news site and mobile app. — Earlier today …
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| Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM: |
Microsoft building clean powered data center at waste water plant — Microsoft has unveiled details of an experimental small data center that it's building next to a waste water treatment plant in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The tiny data center will be powered by a fuel cell that uses biogas …
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