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Moto 360 listing at Best Buy reveals features and specs, priced at $249 — Moto 360 Shows Up at Best Buy for $249, Outs List of Features — We are expecting to get official Moto 360 launch details when Motorola hosts press at a September 4 event in Chicago, but Best Buy may have gone ahead … | David Gelles / New York Times: |
Tech M&A deals increasingly conducted by corporate development teams with less input from investment banks — In Silicon Valley, Mergers Must Meet the Toothbrush Test — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When deciding whether Google should spend millions or even billions of dollars in acquiring a new company … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Twitter's latest experiment turns favorites into retweets (and it's annoying lots of people) — Twitter is back in experimental mode, but its latest test is annoying people. A sizable number of users are seeing tweets favorited by others in their timeline, just like retweets.
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In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty — Just after 4 a.m. on a recent Friday, while most of the neighbors in her leafy Boston suburb were still asleep, Jennifer Guidry was in the driveway of her rental apartment, her blond hair pulled back in a tidy French braid, vacuuming the inside of her car.
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How Verizon lets its copper network decay to force phone customers onto fiber — The shift from copper landlines to fiber-based voice networks is continuing apace, and no one wants it to happen faster than Verizon. — Internet users nationwide are clamoring for fiber, as well … | Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
Xiaomi launches MIUI 6, makes Android look more like iOS 7 — Chinese device maker Xiaomi offers phones, tablets, smart TVs and other products that are known for their high quality and low prices. But Xiaomi is also known for its MIUI software which gives Google Android a fresh coat of paint … | Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Email is not dying; it's an adaptable, decentralized, open platform that's being unbundled — Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet — The gentle, dependable workhorse that everyone relies on and nobody owns — All these people are trying to kill email.| Paul Carr / PandoDaily: |
Bezos-owned Washington Post now inserting gross Amazon affiliate links into news articles — There's something creepy in this Washington Post piece about Penguin's new “adult” cover for the 50th anniversary edition of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Well, something else creepy, beyond the weirdly over-sexualized cover itself.
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Inside ATAP, Google's mobile development group led by former DARPA director Regina Dugan — Google goes DARPA — Regina Dugan loves to tell the story of how she got her current job. It was a little over two years ago, and Dugan, a mechanical engineer by training and an expert in counterterrorism … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
History of podcasting: from RSS audio enclosures to mainstream acceptance and patent lawsuits — 10 years of podcasting: Code, comedy, and patent lawsuits — A decade ago today—August 13, 2004—former MTV VJ Adam Curry spoke these words, recorded in his car in rural Belgium while driving to the Netherlands:| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Telegraph “Forgets” Its Own Stories Documenting Google “Right To Be Forgotten” Removals — The Daily Telegraph's recent campaign to document all its stories that have been removed from Google under the EU's Right To Be Forgotten took an odd turn today when the Telegraph itself mysteriously removed three stories about removals.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
We lack the data needed to show whether venture capital is performing as an asset class — VCs suck (but there's a way you could prove me wrong) — There has been a bunch of Twitter conversation this week about venture capital economics and performance, stemming from an HBR post titled Venture Capitalists …
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CB Insights. Tweets: @trengriffin, @trengriffin, @felixsalmon, @pmarca, @felixsalmon, @jimprosser, @pmarca and @danprimack
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Ex-employee defends Yahoo: Mayer is ignoring legacy ad business to focus on potential growth — A Former Yahoo Employee Defends Marissa Mayer From Her Biggest Critic — Eric Jackson has had a lot to say about Marissa Mayer and Yahoo lately. He's a smart guy, I read his column and think he's generally an astute investor.
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