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Snapchat, a Growing App, Lets You See It, Then You Don't — LOS ANGELES — The ephemeral now has value, at least for users of cellphones. — More than 60 million photos or messages are sent each day through an app called Snapchat and then, after they are viewed for a few seconds, the missives vanish.
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BizPunk, Business Insider, AllThingsD, if:book, Business Insider, GigaOM and Fortune. Thanks:@gusfuldner
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Snapchat Raises $13.5M Series A Led By Benchmark, Now Sees 60M Snaps Sent Per Day — Snapchat, the impermanent messaging app that won “Fastest Rising Startup” at the 2012 Crunchies, has finalized a $13.5 million Series A round led by Benchmark's Mitch Lasky.| Ron / WinBeta: |
Surface Pro already sold out at MicrosoftStore.com, BestBuy, and Staples, hours into its launch — The Surface Pro, powered by Windows 8 Pro, was officially launched online at MicrosoftStore.com, as well as BestBuy and Staples, and within a few hours, the 128GB model of the Surface Pro is already sold out at Microsoft's online store.
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Surface Blog, GeekWire, TechCrunch, SuperSite for Windows, Gizmodo, Daring Fireball, WindowsObserver.com, ZDNet, The Next Web, Engadget, Examiner, TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, Business Insider, WindowsObserver.com, SlashGear, Windows Phone Central, Neowin and PhoneArena
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Microsoft officially (and confusingly) discloses Surface Pro storage figures — Summary: Microsoft's Surface Pro, which the company officially calls “a powerful PC in tablet form,” went on sale today. On its website, Microsoft has officially disclosed how much data storage space you can expect to get from each model.
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PC Magazine, GeekWire, Computerworld, Neowin, WinBeta, nbcnews.com, HotHardware.com News, Ed Bott, Pocketables and Softpedia News
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How Facebook, A Pixar Artist, And Charles Darwin Are Reinventing The Emoticon — What comes after the smiley? Facebook is trying to find out. — Facebook wants an awful lot from its emoticons: They should be able to convey complex emotions, for example, like contemplation, admiration … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Security Firm Bit9 Hacked, Used to Spread Malware — Bit9, a company that provides software and network security services to the U.S. government and at least 30 Fortune 100 firms, has suffered an electronic compromise that cuts to the core of its business: helping clients distinguish known … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Hikes Its Promoted Trend Prices Again, to $200,000 a Day — Twitter's ad business is still a work in progress, but here's one positive sign: Prices for the company's “promoted trends” have been steadily rising, and are now at the $200,000 a day mark in the U.S..
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Former Apple Human Interface Developer Speculates on Future ‘iWatch’ — Former Apple employee and human interface developer Bruze Tognazzini published a blog post earlier this week listing his thoughts on the iWatch, a potential Apple product that made headlines late in 2012. — The Pebble Smartwatch
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askTog, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, Forbes, MacNN, CNET, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, Forbes, Guardian, iLounge, Business Insider, Business Insider, Business Insider, MacStories and ParisLemon. Tweets: @panzer
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
The Valley Needs A Valleywag — Or Something — Here's an unpopular opinion, especially on TechCrunch: The Valley needs a new Valleywag. — On any given day, beneath the hype cycle of startups threatening to launch, then getting their VCs to blog/tweet about their launch threats … | Ed Burnette / ZDNet: |
iOS 6.1 banned from corporate servers due to Exchange snafu — Summary: iPads and iPhones running the newest version of iOS are being blocked in some enterprises because bugs are overloading corporate Exchange servers. — Ed Burnette — One of the benefits of Apple's iOS devices …
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WMPoweruser, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, CNET, Pocket-lint, Macgasm, WindowsITPro, Electronista and The Next Web
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House panel to reintroduce controversial cyber bill, setting up White House fight — The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee plan to re-introduce on Wednesday a controversial cybersecurity bill that has faced pushback from the White House. — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers … | David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Not so fast: Budget cut wipes out €7bn European broadband fund — The European Union has just agreed on its budget for the years 2014-2020, and it's the first time that budget has actually been cut. Unfortunately for European broadband projects that were counting on money from a €7 billion …
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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).
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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 …
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Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
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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