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| Joshua Brustein / Businessweek: |
If Yahoo Buys Tumblr, What Will It Do With All That Porn?
— If Yahoo succeeds in its attempt to acquire Tumblr, it will end up with one of the hottest Internet properties in today's Web, with access to the coveted youth market and a foothold in mobile. — It will also wind up with a whole lot of porn.
May 18, 2013, 9:35 AM–
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| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Larry Page Explains What Happened to His Voice
— For the first time in nearly a year, Google (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page is publicly addressing a question about his personal health: why he lost his voice and continues to speak more hoarsely than is normal.
May 14, 2013, 1:55 PM–
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite
— On a normal weeknight, Netflix (NFLX) accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That's more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com (AMZN), HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined.
May 9, 2013, 10:20 AM–
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| Andy Fixmer / Businessweek: |
Apple's 10-Year-Old iTunes Loses Ground to Streaming
— A decade ago, the newly started iTunes Store gave away a song called Over My Head (Cable Car) by an obscure Denver rock group called The Fray. That was, explains lead guitarist Joe King, the band's big break.
Apr 26, 2013, 4:55 AM–
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| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Here Comes Amazon's Kindle TV Set-Top Box
— Amazon (AMZN) is making e-readers, tablets and will likely soon introduce a smartphone. As it works to build all types of connected devices, that leaves a natural next step: a television set-top box. The e-commerce giant is planning to introduce …
Apr 24, 2013, 12:37 PM–
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Apple's ‘Coach’ Campbell Sees Google Glass Starting Era of Intimate Objects
— Apple's latest and greatest creation will be something ranging from a wristwatch to touch-ready lingerie, if you read the tea leaves laid out by Bill Campbell, a member of the company's board.
Apr 12, 2013, 5:45 PM–
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| Max Raskin / Businessweek: |
Meet the Bitcoin Millionaires
— Many people have lost some data while reformatting a computer hard drive. Jered Kenna lost more than that. In 2010 he erased from his computer 800 Bitcoins that have been worth more than $200,000. Kenna isn't upset: He has plenty more.
Apr 11, 2013, 6:15 PM–
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| Sarah Frier / Businessweek: |
Foursquare Gets $41 Million Investment, Time to Grow
— When Dennis Crowley debuted Foursquare, his location-based social media app, at South by Southwest in 2009, he got rave reviews. The tech blog Mashable called Foursquare the “breakout mobile app” of the event. VentureBeat called it “the next Twitter.”
Apr 11, 2013, 6:30 AM–
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents
— To be a good coder in Silicon Valley is to be among the pampered elite. You get fat paychecks, people bring you free gourmet food, drivers shuttle you around town. Coders here are really treated much like talented entertainers would be down south in Hollywood.
Apr 10, 2013, 11:55 PM–
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Inside Operation Inversion, the Code Freeze That Saved LinkedIn
— LinkedIn's May 2011 initial public offering was a blowout. Its share price more than doubled in the first day of trading, giving the networking site a near $9 billion valuation. Behind the scenes, though, the company's computing systems were a total mess.
Apr 10, 2013, 10:30 PM–
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
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.
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.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Unison's blog:
“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).
“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).