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Hedge Fund Manager Loeb Targets Sony for a Breakup
— Updated — An American hedge fund billionaire known for starting big fights has called for a breakup of the entertainment and electronic colossus Sony, according to people briefed on the matter, possibly setting off a battle …
May 14, 2013, 4:30 AM–
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Kleiner Perkins Shifts Strategy After a Rough Decade
— During the dot-com boom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital investment firm, all but minted money, making prescient early investments in Netscape Communications, Amazon.com and Google and delivering astonishing returns to investors.
May 8, 2013, 9:45 AM–
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China's Changing Internet Landscape
— China was on vacation much of last week for the May 1 Worker's Day holiday, but executives at two of China's most important online companies were busy completing a deal that could reshape the country's Internet. — Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce …
May 7, 2013, 8:10 AM–
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Alibaba Buys Stake in Sina Weibo, a Chinese Answer to Twitter
— Alibaba was once known as China's answer to eBay. Now the Internet giant is forging closer ties to the country's counterpart to Twitter. — The company agreed on Monday to buy an 18 percent stake in the Sina Corporation's Weibo …
Apr 29, 2013, 11:25 AM–
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A Flawed Bidding Process Leaves Dell at a Loss
— The private equity firm Blackstone Group has exited the stage for Dell, abruptly bringing down the curtain on a budding takeover contest. It has the elements of a farce, and Dell's board has no one to blame but itself.
Apr 24, 2013, 5:00 AM–
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Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money
— The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler — Olympic rowers, nemeses of Mark Zuckerberg — are laying claim to a new title: bitcoin moguls. — The Winklevii, as they are known, have amassed since last summer what appears …
Apr 11, 2013, 3:35 PM–
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Twitter Arrives on Wall Street, Via Bloomberg
— Largely blocked on Wall Street, Twitter is making its big debut on trading desks — via Bloomberg terminals. — Bloomberg L.P. announced on Thursday that it was incorporating tweets into its data service, which is widely used in the financial industry.
Apr 4, 2013, 11:55 AM–
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Could Verizon's Best Friend Be Its Biggest Rival?
— For years, Verizon and Vodafone have confronted a problem: what to do with Verizon Wireless, which they both own nearly equally? — According to a new report, the answer may be simple — bring in Verizon's top competitor.
Apr 2, 2013, 3:15 PM–
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Sprint and SoftBank Pledge to Forgo Huawei Equipment, Lawmaker Says
— Sprint Nextel and its Japanese suitor, SoftBank, have assured lawmakers that they would not use equipment from China's Huawei Technologies in Sprint's cellphone network, the chairman of the House intelligence committee said on Thursday.
Mar 28, 2013, 11:55 PM–
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Buyout Effort Ended, Best Buy Founder Returns to Company
— Richard Schulze, who explored and then abandoned a possible buyout bid for Best Buy, is returning to the electronics chain he founded. — Best Buy said on Monday that Mr. Schulze would become chairman emeritus.
Mar 25, 2013, 2:25 PM–
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
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.
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.
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).