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AWS in fight of its life as customers like Dropbox ponder hybrid clouds and Google pricing — AWS doesn't have the public cloud to itself anymore. It faces two gigantic competitors trying to poach reference customers and growing adoption of hybrid cloud. — For many years Amazon Web Services was the only public cloud in town.
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Pandora and Spotify face uncertain future with giants Google, Apple, and Amazon encroaching — An epic battle in streaming music is about to begin, and only a few will survive — “One thing is for sure,” declared an influential American critic and record industry analyst, Bob Lefsetz … | Brendan Sasso / National Journal: |
Cable Companies: Google Threatens Net Neutrality, Not Us — Internet service providers are urging the FCC to regulate popular websites. — The real threat to online freedom is from Internet giants like Google and Netflix, according to major cable companies.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 includes support for folders and interactive cases — Microsoft is planning to release its first update to Windows Phone 8.1 soon, and the company has started detailing some of the upcoming features to phone manufacturers. One of the main visual changes with Update 1 …
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| Alex Wawro / Gamasutra: |
How Glu Mobile refit an earlier game to make chart-topping “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood” — Q&A: Keeping up with hit mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood — Reality TV star and actress Kim Kardashian has conquered everything from cable TV to bottled water with some stupendous branding tactics.
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How later IPOs and other big trends are changing the structure of the VC industry — The Changing Structure of the VC Industry — There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. — On the surface the narratives have been
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Andreessen Horowitz and AVC. Tweets: @fortunemagazine, @quinngarner, @infoarbitrage, @hunterwalk, @mattermark and @shaig
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Behind “GoodGoogle”, a service for depleting your competitor's AdWord budget via click fraud — Service Drains Competitors' Online Ad Budget — The longer one lurks in the Internet underground, the more difficult it becomes to ignore the harsh reality that for nearly every …
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| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
Leaked Photos Of A Motorola Pre-Production Device: This May Be The Moto X+1 — We've been hearing rumors and seeing at least some evidence of a new Motorola flagship for the past few months. The Moto X was released in August of last year, which makes it just about time for a refresh in the current yearly phone cycle.| Kevin Bullis / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers demo cheaper resistive random access memory fabrication, raising prospect of terabyte chips for smartphones — Super-Dense Computer Memory — Researchers have discovered a new way to make chips that could pack terabytes into smartphones. — A novel type of computer memory could …
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| Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat: |
Marc Andreessen takes to Twitter to quote bad predictions about Facebook through the years — Marc Andreessen takes a walk down memory lane with Facebook doubters — Marc Andreessen has been a Facebook investor from very early on. Andreesson, who has been given to launching …
Tweets: @pmarca, @spencerante and @davemcclure
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
YC-Backed Kamcord Launches An App For Watching Mobile Game Replays — As reports of Google's interest in buying Twitch continue unabated, it's clear there's an enormous market for video of gameplay. A few players stepped up a couple years ago to tackle the same concept for mobile gaming.
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Inside Mobile Apps, 148Apps, Joystiq, VentureBeat, e27 and 9to5Mac
| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Y Combinator lobbies for expanding O1A visas to founders accepted into incubators — With immigration reform off the agenda, some in tech turn to plan B — Maybe we can't reform the whole immigration system, but the startup world just wants this one thing. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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