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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.| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
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.| 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 … | Ron / WinBeta: |
128GB Surface Pro already sold out at MicrosoftStore.com, hours into its launch — The Surface Pro, powered by Windows 8 Pro, was oficially 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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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, App Advice, CNET, WindowsITPro and Macgasm
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Business Insider, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, Softpedia News, AllThingsD, Pocket-lint, Guardian, Wired, Examiner, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, Forbes, Pocket-lint, MacNN, Electronista and iClarified. Thanks:@alex
| Justine Sharrock / BuzzFeed: |
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 … | Associated Press: |
Egypt court orders YouTube blocked for a month in case related to anti-Islam film — CAIRO — A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing website YouTube for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world.| 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 … | 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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Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken — I wrote a thing last fall about massive open online courses (MOOCs, in the parlance), and the challenge that free or cheap online classes pose to business as usual in higher ed. In that piece, I compared the people running colleges today … | Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider: |
Home Depot abandoning BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple's iPhone and iOS — EXCLUSIVE: Home improvement retailer Home Depot plans to replace thousands of BlackBerry smartphones issued to its managerial and corporate staffers with versions of Apple's iPhone 4S, AppleInsider has learned.
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Google's Schmidt to sell roughly 42 percent of stake — (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is selling roughly 42 percent of his stake in the Internet search company over the coming year, Google announced on Friday. — Schmidt will sell 3.2 million shares of Class … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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 …
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99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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