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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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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
| 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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| Chris Dixon: |
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:
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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| Jakob Nielsen / Alertbox: |
Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users … With the recent launch of Windows 8 and the Surface tablets, Microsoft has reversed its user interface strategy. From a traditional Gates-driven GUI style that emphasized powerful commands to the point of featuritis …
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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 … | Danny Sullivan / CNET: |
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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 … | 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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| 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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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's redesigned iMac launches not delayed until 2013, still on track for November-December — According to our sources, Apple's already announced plans for November and December launches of the redesigned 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac lines are still on track.| 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: @artgillespie, @prhaig and @dalmaer
| 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: @joshconstine, @drummel, @nicferrier and @janaboruta
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple opens its first eBay store for a trial with select refubished 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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| Mark Cuban / blog maverick: |
What I Really Think About Facebook — First, I'm not recommending to any of my companies that we leave facebook. I am recommending that we de-emphasize pushing consumers or partners to like us on FB and focus on building up our followings across all existing social media platforms …
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AllThingsD, Wired, AllFacebook, WebProNews, Business Insider, SocialTimes and Betabeat
| 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 … | 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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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple's App Store has now seen more than 1 million approved apps since launch — Today, Apple (unofficially) will be celebrating another important App Store milestone — there have now been 1 million apps submitted to its marketplace since July 2008, according to App Store discovery company Appsfire.| 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 … | 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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Could Slow Down A Tiny Bit As It Starts Switching All Users To Secure HTTPS Connections — When you're dealing with 1 billion people's personal info, security is critical. But Facebook didn't want to sacrifice speed. That's why it spent the last two years making infrastructure improvements … Sponsor Posts
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