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Marc Andreessen's tweets so far in 2014: 120 tweets/day on average, personable, links a lot — Marc Andreessen's first six months on Twitter were unbelievably epic — Marc Andreessen—co-founder of Netscape, now a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz—officially registered … | Ed Summers / inkdroid: |
Bot @congressedits tweets all anonymous Wikipedia edits made from Congressional IP addresses — why @congressedits? — Note: as with all the content on this blog, this post reflects my own thoughts about a personal project, and not the opinions or activities of my employer.
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Silicon Valley's Real Estate Crunch Is A Golden Opportunity For Other American Cities — Curse CEO Hubert Thieblot moved his company headquarters to “Rocket City” Huntsville, Alabama from San Francisco last year. — When Curse CEO Hubert Thieblot told his employees last year that he was moving … | Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Jury finds Apple did not push MLB, others to adopt its live video streaming format and cause them to infringe Emblaze patent — Apple Wins Emblaze Patent Trial Over Live Video Streaming — Apple Inc. (AAPL) defeated a lawsuit brought by Emblaze Ltd. (BLZ) claiming the iPhone-maker pushed …
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Yahoo sued for sexual harrassment, complaint alleges female exec coerced female engineer into sex — Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment — A high-level female Yahoo executive helping to lead the company's mobile-content efforts was named Friday in a state lawsuit filed … | Brandon Bailey / Mercury News: |
Google expands in San Francisco: leases space at 1 Market Street, buys 8-story building at 188 Embarcadero — Google expanding its San Francisco offices — Google is expanding its already sizable presence in San Francisco by leasing space in one office tower and buying another on the Embarcadero … Thanks:@brandonbailey
| Barton Gellman / Washington Post: |
Washington Post writer responds to criticism of analysis of 160K conversations intercepted by the NSA, sheds light on data set, analysis methods — How 160,000 intercepted communications led to our latest NSA story — The Debrief An occasional series offering a reporter's insights
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Rap Genius rebrands as “Genius”, raises $40M led by Dan Gilbert, and makes annotations embeddable — The Inside Story Of How Rap Genius Fired A Cofounder — And Just Raised $40 Million (Annotated!) — On May 23 of this year, things were finally coming together for Rap Genius.
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Thanks:@mattlynley| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Lyft reverses under legal pressure, cancels Friday night New York launch — Attorney General insists NY Supreme Court issued injunction—but Lyft denies it. — Facing the weight of the New York Attorney General, Lyft now says it will delay its planned launch in the Big Apple on Friday evening.
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SEC halts trading of CYNK Technology, investigates “potentially manipulative transactions” after company with no revenue reaches $6B valuation — Cynk Technology's Valuation Defied Gravity Without Revenue, Rousing SEC — Market Capitalization Shot Up to $6 Billion; Regulator Flags ‘Potentially Manipulative Transactions’
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Apple launches new Swift blog, offers Xcode 6 beta for free — Apple's new Swift programming language has attracted a lot of interest from developers since it was announced last month at WWDC, and now the company is looking to get it in the hands of more developers.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Dropbox updates desktop client with streaming sync: Up to 2x faster via overlapping uploads and downloads — Dropbox today announced its desktop client is getting streaming sync, a new feature that significantly reduces the time needed to synchronize large files.
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