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Everything We Expect Google To Announce At Its Biggest Event Of The Year Next Week
— Google's biggest event of the year, the I/O developers conference, kicks off next week with a lengthy three-hour (!) keynote where the company is expected to go over a slew of new products and services that'll be rolling out in the weeks to come.
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BILL GATES ON THE IPAD: ‘A Lot Of Those Users Are Frustrated’
— Bill Gates took a shot at the iPad while explaining Microsoft's rationale for the Surface this morning on CNBC. — He was asked about the declining PC market. He said that tablets are growing in popularity, and it's …
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How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison
— The knock at the door came at 7:03 a.m. — Shawn Hogan, the CEO of a successful online marketing company called Digital Point Solutions, was sitting on his sofa. He didn't immediately answer the door.
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The Verdict Is In: Nobody Likes Google Glass
— The elite of the tech world have decided that Google Glass is the future. — And perhaps they're right, but, Google Glass is clearly not the present. It's not even the near-future, if the early reviews that are rolling in turn out to be accurate.
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Uber CEO: Reuters Is Totally Wrong, We're Not Raising Money
— Earlier, Reuters wrote that Uber was raising a new round of financing that could value the company at $1 billion. — Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick tells Business Insider that is not true. At all.
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Bang With Friends Is Raising ~ $1 Million To Help People Find Hook Up Buddies
— Bang with Friends (BWF) is a Facebook app that does exactly what you're thinking it does. It helps people on Facebook find friends to hook up with rather than date. — So it may come as a shock that BWF …
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A Majority Of Android Phones Still Can't Access Google Now, But The iPhone Can
— Google launched its voice assistant Google Now on the iPhone today. — It's an amazing product, and much better than Apple's own Siri. — Now for some brutal irony. — Google Now isn't available …
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Yahoo's Chairman Is Out Because Marissa Mayer Was Not His First Choice For CEO
— Yahoo just announced that chairman Fred Amoroso will step down in June. — We've communicated with three Yahoo sources since the news broke. — Given what they told us, we think this is why Amoroso is out:
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ETailz Inc acquires Ecomom Assets And Will Relaunch Site This Summer
— In February, a startup called Ecomom failed suddenly and tragically. Its founder, Jody Sherman, committed suicide and two weeks later, the company entered into Assignment for Benefit of Creditors.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“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).