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AngelList Syndicates will compete with other lead investors for deals, and many will fail — Leading vs Following — Hunter Walk has a good post up on the coming competition among angels with syndicates to get into deals. Hunter observes: … What Hunter is getting at is the difference between leading and following.
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| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
AngelList Syndicates can help traditional VCs, not just entrepreneurs and angels — Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal? — If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.”
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
First Windows 8.1 ad features the return of the Start button — The removal of the Windows 8 Start button last year turned out to be a hot-button issue for users of Microsoft's latest operating system. Following a range of feedback from customers, Microsoft is now preparing to release Windows 8.1 on October 18th with a Start button.
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
Twitter plans to make its IPO filing public this week — Twitter's IPO filing is ready, and the company intends to make it public this week, according to someone familiar with the plan. The goal is for Twitter to begin trading, likely on the New York Stock Exchange, before Thanksgiving.
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Tweets: @zseward, @qz, @qthrul and @sarahfrier
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Apple Passes Coca-Cola as Most Valuable Brand — Apple is the new most valuable brand in the world, according to a closely followed annual report. — The report, to be released on Monday, is from Interbrand, a corporate identity and brand consulting company owned by the Omnicom Group …
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| Artem Russakovskii / Android Police: |
Gmail 4.6: Ads Are Coming To Gmail For Android, Unsent Messages Warning, And More — Now that the insane week of Google app updates has passed (gotta love those Rollout Wednesdays, right?), I've had some time to dig into the APKs and have found a number of interesting things in some of them.
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| MIT Technology Review: |
How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics — To translate one language into another, find the linear transformation that maps one to the other. Simple, say a team of Google engineers — Computer science is changing the nature of the translation … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage — Lodsys became one of the most-scorned patent holders in 2011, by making seemingly small cash demands (just 0.575 percent of your revenue, please!) against small app makers, who it said were infringing its patents that cover in-app purchasing and upgrades.| Ryan Taljonick / GamesRadar: |
PC gaming's future is no longer tied to Microsoft — First there was SteamOS, a Linux-based operating system whose open design aims to spur innovation. Then there were Steam Machines, a range of Valve-branded systems with SteamOS pre-installed that will provide a legitimate non-Windows alternative for PC gamers come 2014.
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| Ryan Sarver: |
Twitter's former Platform Director Ryan Sarver posts first of 10 essays on lessons learned — Things I Learned Working on the Twitter Platform — I was lucky enough to spend the last four years of my life working with an incredible team of people on the Twitter Platform.
Tweets: @davewiner, @mbaratz, @stevecheney, @jw and @chirag_mehta
| Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
Facebook Woos TV Networks With More Data — Facebook is laying down a new gauntlet in its battle with Twitter to dominate online conversation around television: more data for broadcasters. — This week, Facebook says it will begin sending weekly reports to America's four largest television networks … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
CyanogenMod creator Steve Kondik on the challenges of refining the ROM — On the morning after the Oppo N1 launch, Steve “Cyanogen” Kondik was surrounded by several Oppo ambassadors and tech writers at a hotel lounge in Beijing. It's a far cry from where he started: toying with Android ROMs out of “boredom” about five years ago.
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