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With News Feed Overhaul, Facebook Delivers Your ‘Personalized Newspaper’
— Facebook redesigned its News Feed with bolder images and special sections for friends, photos, and music, saying the activity stream will become more like a “personalized newspaper” that fits better with people's mobile lifestyles.
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Facebook's Redesign Hopes to Keep Users Engaged
— SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook plans to announce on Thursday a substantial redesign of its News Feed — a makeover aimed at both keeping users glued to the social network and luring more advertising dollars. — Company executives have broadly …
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Facebook: 500,000 Pages Have Used Promoted Posts, 70% Become Repeat Advertisers
— Facebook touted the success of its Promoted Posts product and the general success of ads in the News Feed during its earnings call today, in which it announced Q4 financial figures that beat analyst estimates.
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Mark Cuban and Minecraft Creator Notch give $500k to EFF for software patent reform
— Minecraft creator Markus Persson, aka Notch, and entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban have donated $500,000 to the EFF for software patent reform. — The announcement, made on the EFF's site …
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Clarity Adds $1.6M from 500 Startups, Mark Cuban to Be ‘Lifeline for Entrepreneurs’
— BetaKit covered San Francisco and Moncton, NB-based Clarity, which lets anyone get access to entrepreneurial advice over the phone, when it hit 10,000 calls after launching in May 2012.
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Summit To Buy Powder Mountain To Create Entrepreneur Community
— Utah's Powder Mountain is under new management. Very new. — The Summit Series, the five-year old entrepreneur conference run by a gang of mostly twenty-something nomads, is setting down roots.
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Apptopia Mobile App Bazaar Gains Momentum
— So you've built the mobile app, and you've got a bunch of people using it, but it's no Instagram. Now what? It's not as easy to raise Series A funding as it used to be, and mobile apps are a tough, hits-driven business.
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Facebook confirms dedicated ‘Pages Feed’ section rolling out, shows you only content from pages
— Facebook is today rolling out a new product called Pages feed that will allow you to see only content from the pages you follow in your main feed. This section was discovered earlier in the month in testing …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).