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| Steven Sinofsky / Learning by Shipping: |
steven @ a16z — As a reader of this blog, you probably notice the two big themes of learning (by shipping): (1) learning about new technologies, new ways to do things, and new products and (2) improving how products are made from an engineering and management perspective.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Former Windows Head Sinofsky Joins Andreessen Horowitz as Board Partner — Steven Sinofsky, the high-profile Microsoft exec who most recently led its flagship Windows efforts, will be joining Andreessen Horowitz as a board partner. — The tech exec — who has been an entrepreneur in residence …
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Apple, closer to its vision for a TV set, wants ESPN, HBO, Viacom, and others to come along — Years of halting negotiating with cable companies haven't gotten Apple much closer to its grand vision for television. But a newer strategy of talking directly to content providers seems more promising.
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Disney's ESPN Holds Preliminary Talks for Web-Based TV — Walt Disney's ESPN sports network has held preliminary talks to offer programming on a Web-based TV service like those proposed by Google, Sony and Intel. An Internet TV provider would have to pay as much or more than cable and satellite services …
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Ubuntu Edge smartphone misses its crowdfunding goal by over $19 million — When Canonical launched its crowdfunding campaign for the Ubuntu Edge smartphone last month it set an ambitious goal: raising $32 million through Indiegogo. As it turns out, that goal was a little too ambitious …
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Ubuntu Edge: founder says failure isn't the end of the dream — Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth tells Guardian: US carriers and Asian handset manufacturers are interested in building phones with Ubuntu Mobile to capture 25% of smartphone buyers — The Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding project … | Reuters: |
Insight: At Apple, Tim Cook leads a quiet cultural revolution — (Reuters) - Shortly after signing on as chief operating officer at Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg was looking to connect with people in a similar role - No. 2 to a brilliant and passionate young founder. She called Tim Cook.
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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Google Now updated with car rentals, concert tickets and more — Traffic and weather updates are great, but Google Now never shines better than when you're on vacation. To that end, Mountain View has taught the feature a few new tricks, equipping it with cards for keeping track car rental and concert ticket.| Microsoft: |
Windows Phone, Latin America's second most widely used mobile platform — In one year, the operating system went from fourth to second place with good growth figures, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. — This press release has been edited post publication to provide clarity on time frames.| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Crowdtilt Launches Crowdhoster, A WordPress For Crowdfunding, To Let Anyone Create And Customize Their Own Campaigns — Thanks to the JOBS Act and the rise of Kickstarter, Indiegogo and the parade of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding has gone mainstream.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage — Alex Polvi is living the great Silicon Valley archetype. Together with some old school friends, he's piecing together a tech revolution from inside a two-car Palo Alto garage. — He's like Dave Packard or Steve Jobs or Sergey Brin — at least up to a point.
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
NSA gathered thousands of Americans' e-mails before court struck down program — The National Security Agency unlawfully gathered as many as tens of thousands of e-mails and other electronic communications between Americans as part of a now-discontinued collection program, according to a 2011 secret court opinion.
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| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
Fan fave Nginx web server goes commercial — The Nginx web server, which has been adopted by a growing cadre of web sites in its open-source form, is now going commercial with a new NGINX Plus release. — The commercial version wraps new features including advanced monitoring … | Nick Summers / Businessweek: |
Steve Case's Second Life as D.C.'s Favorite Businessman — It helps that he's an hour late and his audience has spent the time getting into a keg of Shiner Bock, but when Steve Case walks into the Austin (Tex.) offices of the startup he's just invested $40 million in, he gets a deafening welcome.
Tweets: @tyrangiel
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Windows 8: Lenovo brings back Start menu, sidesteps Windows Store with Pokki — Lenovo, which recently took the title of world's largest PC maker, is going around Microsoft to restore something much closer to the traditional Start Menu in its Windows 8 machines, in addition to letting users sidestep … | Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Yahoo #1 Web Property Again In US, First Time Since May 2011 [Updated] — ComScore just released its monthly Top 50 US Web properties list today. I've generally stopped looking at this list. But it was pointed out to me that Yahoo is back at number one. — When was the last time Yahoo was number one?
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| Ari Levy / Bloomberg: |
Intel Leads $17 Million Financing of Maginatics — Maginatics Inc. is assembling a roster of some of the biggest U.S. technology companies as investors, adding Intel Corp. (INTC) to the list, as the storage startup aims for mass adoption. — The Mountain View, California-based company …
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| Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed: |
Yahoo, Foursquare In Talks Over Data Partnership — Foursquare sells a lot of ads, but the biggest upside for the location-sharing start-up may be in selling its data. And sources say Yahoo is interested. Foursquare, once criticized for not being able to figure out a business, may have finally struck gold deep in its data centers.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple poaches Levi's Senior VP for U.S. Retail as search for chief continues — Apple has poached Enrique Atienza from Levi Strauss, a global clothing sales powerhouse, to become a top director for its U.S. Retail market, according to sources with knowledge of the hire.
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