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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 … | Quartz: |
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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See also Mediagazer| 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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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
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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| 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 … | Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
MakerBot's $1,400 Digitizer Now Available To Pre-Order, Will Ship By Mid-October — The folks at MakerBot have been teasing their Digitizer desktop 3D scanner since this past March, but now they're just about ready push it out the door. For $1,400, you too can scan all the little knick-knacks … | 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 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. However, according to the minds behind Crowdtilt … | 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 … | 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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| 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
| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
Flying high: Delta equips 19,000 flight attendants with Windows Phones — Still not seeing too many people using Windows Phone? You will if you take a flight on Delta: The airline announced on Thursday that all 19,000 of the company's flight attendants will have a Windows Phone on board.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Makes Ads Prettier With Shutterstock Partnership To Offer Free Stock Images In Ad Creator — When ads look bad, Facebook, users, and advertisers all lose. So Facebook today announced a partnership to bake Shutterstock into its ad creator, allowing marketers to select from millions of free stock images for their ads.
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The Next Web, Mashable and 9to5Mac
| CNBC: |
All Nasdaq markets halting trading due to processor issue — Nasdaq halted trading in all securities Thursday until further notice due to a problem affecting quote dissemination. — Dozens of publicly traded companies, including high-profile companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Facebook, were showing their shares halted.
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| Bloomberg: |
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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See also Mediagazer| 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Photo-Sharing App Cluster Snags Instagram Seed Investor Steve Anderson & Others To Lead $1.6M Round, Launches Version 1.0 — Cluster, a mobile photo-sharing app which helps users collaborate on albums with their friends, is today announcing $1.6 million in seed funding in a round led … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google debuts Chrome 30 beta with easier searching by image, APIs for apps, new gestures and WebGL for Android — Two days after releasing the stable version of Chrome 28, Google has announced the release of Chrome 30 beta for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.
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