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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Full memo: Jeff Bezos responds to brutal New York Times story, says it doesn't represent the Amazon he leads — The cruel and back-stabbing environment described by The New York Times in a recent report on the workplace culture at Amazon.com has struck a nerve with Jeff Bezos …
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SiliconBeat, International Business Times, The Register, Business Insider, The Digital Reader, Guardian, Re/code, Fortune, Newser, Tech2, Bloomberg View, Telegraph, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, Wired.co.uk, The Memo and CNET
Tweets: @kennwhite, @jack_welch, @swardley and @pmarca
Thanks:@taylor_soper. See also Mediagazer| Nick Ciubotariu / LinkedIn Pulse: |
An Amazonian's response to “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” — Disclaimer and proviso: “The postings on this site are my own and don't represent Amazon's position in any way whatsoever”. — Update: I really appreciate the notes of thanks this post has received, here and on other social media avenues.
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New York Times, BBC, Re/code, ongoing by Tim Bray, TIME, Forbes, Inquirer, The Digital Reader, VentureBeat, NBC News, BuzzMachine, The Next Web, Boing Boing, Philip Greenspun's Weblog, USA Today, Digital Trends, Fortune, Re/code and Business Insider
Tweets: @joshmedia and @petersterne
See also Mediagazer| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
After Huawei and LG Nexus renders over the weekend, live picture of LG Nexus 5 leaks online — This could be Google's new Nexus 5 smartphone, built by LG — We waved goodbye to the Nexus 5 when Google stopped selling its 2013 flagship Android smartphone earlier this year, but it might be time to say hello to a revamped version.
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uSwitch, uSwitch, Inno Yudha, ZDNet, Ausdroid, Engadget, 9to5Google, BGR, Business Insider, GSMArena.com, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, International Business Times, TechRadar.com, Gizmochina, TechRadar.com, Tech Times, Expert Reviews, NDTV Gadgets, GSMArena.com, Tech2, Liliputing, stuff.tv, Android Authority, Pocket-lint, Pocket-lint, Android and Me, Android Police, Neowin, AndroidGuys, PhoneDog.com, TechnoBuffalo and Ubergizmo
| Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic: |
Wikipedia's dwindling ranks of volunteer editors struggle to stop editors paid by PR firms — The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay — On January 11, 2013, James Heilman, an emergency-room physician and one of Wikipedia's most prolific medical editors … | M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Avoid being featured in the App Store at launch: your app will likely have issues and first-time users won't give you a second chance — Avoid the Feature — Early on, all those downloads are not your friend — It's right there, like a glittering lure in a dark sea. An email from Apple.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
IBM to build LinuxOne mainframes running Ubuntu Linux in partnership with Canonical; IBM joins Linux Foundation's new Open Mainframe Project — IBM Teams With Canonical To Put Ubuntu Linux On Mainframes — You might not think that ‘Linux’ and ‘mainframe’ belong in the same sentence …
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TechEye, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Reuters, Inquirer, Tech Times and The New Stack
| Serena Ng / Wall Street Journal: |
QVC to Acquire Online Shopping Site Zulily for $2.4 Billion — The owner of home shopping network QVC is acquiring five-year-old Internet retailer Zulily for $2.4 billion in cash and stock.
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Business Insider, Bloomberg Business, ABC News, Consumerist, Investor Relations and Reuters. Tweets: @danprimack
| Mike Hearn / Medium: |
Bitcoin Core committer releases Bitcoin XT fork allowing blocks larger than 1MB amid disagreement among Core committers — Why is Bitcoin forking? — So this is it. Here we are. The community is divided and Bitcoin is forking: both the software and, perhaps, the block chain too.
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lists.linuxfoundation …, Rusty Russell's Coding Blog, Guardian, AVC, CoinTelegraph.Com News, NEWSBTC, CoinDesk, Business Insider and Bitcoin Magazine
Tweets: @jgarzik, @vgr, @criccomini and @kevinmarks
| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Rambus, known for its many patent infringement lawsuits against chip makers, plans to sell chips under its own brand for the first time — Rambus Expands With Its Own Chip Brand — Rambus is announcing plans to sell chips under its own brand for the first time in its 25-year history.| Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal: |
Expedia extends termination date for Orbitz deal from August 12 to November 12 — Expedia Extends Termination Date for Orbitz Deal — Expedia has pushed back the termination date for its merger with Orbitz Worldwide by three months as the hotel industry urges the U.S. government to reject the proposed tie-up.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How distributed reflective DoS can amplify attacks while hiding the attacker's identity by exploiting weaknesses in the open BitTorrent protocol — How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites — uTorrent, Mainline, and Vuze most susceptible to DoS abuse, researchers say.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
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