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Venture Firm Greylock Partners Outshines Silicon Valley Rivals — A group of 40 investors, executives, and entrepreneurs gathered at the Carneros Inn resort in Napa Valley, Calif., in June for a two-day conference on initial public offerings. LinkedIn (LNKD) Chief Executive Officer Jeff Weiner … | Yulia Ponomareva / Russia Beyond The Headlines: |
Yandex co-founder Ilya Segalovich dies at 48 in London — Ilya Segalovich, co-founder of Yandex, Russia's largest search engine, was disconnected from life support on July 27. … Arkady Volozh, the other founder of Yandex, announced the sad news on the official company blog on July 28.| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Angels Get Carry For Helping A Startup Raise Money With AngelList Syndicates — AngelList is testing out a new service that lets angel investors syndicate deals with each other, a feature that could allow startups to raise venture-sized rounds of money with relative ease.
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The End: Barnes & Noble in Silicon Valley — As the chief executive of Barnes & Noble (BKS) from 2010 to 2013, William Lynch might have had one of the most difficult jobs in the retail business. He made it harder still by running a large chain of bookstores as though it were a tech startup.| The Daily Beast: |
The Secret FISA Court Must Go — We are assured the secret FISA court is keeping a close eye on government surveillance, but the truth of what it has done and justified is terrifying. Law professors Christopher Sprigman and Jennifer Granick argue that the court must go.| Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: |
Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars — High court imposes injunction on Flavio Garcia, who has cracked security system of cars including Porsches and Bentleys — A British-based computer scientist has been banned from publishing an academic paper revealing …
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Advertising Giants Announce $35.1 Billion Merger — Two leading advertising companies, Omnicom Group and Publicis Groupe, announced a merger on Sunday that would create the world's biggest family of agenices, with a stock market value of $35.1 billion and 130,000 employees.
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Chromecast: Exploiting the Newest Device By Google. — On Wednesday, July 24th Google launched the Chromecast. As soon as the source code hit we began our audit. Within a short period of time we had multiple items to look at for when our devices arrived.
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How Many Retweets Is San Francisco's Tax Break Worth? — When “giving back” means encouraging people to use your product, everybody wins. — A blackboard in Twitter's cafeteria where Twitter employees are asked to share ideas on how the company can “better serve the community.”
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In the Beginning Was the Word; Now the Word Is on an App — EDMOND, Okla. — More than 500 years after Gutenberg, the Bible is having its i-moment. — For millions of readers around the world, a wildly successful free Bible app, YouVersion, is changing how, where and when they read the Bible.| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Nexus 7 (2013) - Mini Review — At an event in San Francisco, Google announced an updated version of the popular Nexus 7 tablet which first appeared at last year's Google I/O. The big new features update the Nexus 7 platform with inclusion of a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064) SoC … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
PRISM revelations result in lost business for US cloud companies — The reach of NSA's PRISM program has spooked some overseas companies from using US cloud providers. — The revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) broad monitoring of traffic and access to the data …
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Insight: How Samsung is beating Apple in China — (Reuters) - Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that “over the arc of time” China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which has been around far longer … | Ryan Knutson / Digits: |
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