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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Google's Eric Schmidt On Data Privacy: The Internet Needs A Delete Button   —  With so much data being collected about us online, can our offline identities ever be divorced from our web personas?  Today, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt offered a simple solution for kids being brought …
May 7, 2013, 9:05 AMIn context
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Facebook Turns Off Website Internally To Force Mobile Development   —  Just how important is mobile to Facebook?  According to Facebook product manager Josh Williams, the former CEO of Gowalla, the social network's push toward mobility is crucial enough to its strategy to turn off Facebook's website internally.
Mar 22, 2013, 6:55 PMIn context
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Starbucks's Shoddy Square Rollout Baffles Baristas, Confuses Customers   —  The Starbucks clerk was at a loss.  I had just ordered a mocha Frappuccino and asked to pay with Square, a service that allows customers to purchase goods at the coffeehouse chain via their smartphone.  “What?
Mar 20, 2013, 2:55 PMIn context
Elizabeth Spiers / Fast Company:
Exclusive: Eric Lefkofsky's First Interview As Groupon's CEO   —  The chairman and cofounder of the beleaguered company defends daily deals, opens up about its problems, and tries to redefine the service as a next-generation Costco.  —  Where was Groupon chairman and cofounder Eric Lefkosky …
Mar 13, 2013, 8:00 PMIn context
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Vevo To Launch Traditional TV Channel, Graduate From YouTube   —  Today at SXSW, Vevo plans to introduce Vevo TV, a “fully programmed, linear, 24/7, lean-back experience,” CEO Rio Caraeff tells Fast Company, which he stresses will be “more TV-like” than the traditional Vevo experience.
Mar 12, 2013, 1:05 PMIn context
Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Google Joins NFC Forum's Board Of Directors, As Our Wireless Pay Future Comes Into Focus   —  Google wants a driving seat in wireless payment and data tech.  —  Google was already a “Principal” member of the NFC Forum, an industry body with a mission to advance all the different aspects of Near Field Communications wireless tech.
Mar 6, 2013, 8:25 AMIn context
Elizabeth Spiers / Fast Company:
Exclusive: Andrew Mason's Last Interview As Groupon CEO   —  One month ago, I interviewed then-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason for a forthcoming Fast Company feature on the future of Groupon.  His performance—at turns, defensive, weary, combative, and naïve—foreshadowed his firing on Thursday.
Mar 1, 2013, 8:40 PMIn context
Kevin Purdy / Fast Company:
Lady Gaga, BBQ Ribs, And The Invisible Hand That Moves Your Brand's Fans To Respond   —  Kelly Abbott's Realtidbits provides custom comment systems and visitor data to Lady Gaga, the Washington Post, Suicide Girls, and AmazingRibs.com, among others.  Its secret sauce?  “Heavy listening.”
Feb 20, 2013, 1:55 AMIn context
Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:
Barack Obama Is The First Cyber War President, But A President Can't Win A Cyber War   —  The Commander-in-Chief has made a massive troop reassignment to U.S. Cyber Command and pushed new legislation and executive orders expanding pre-emptive cyber attacks, but it'll take more innovation …
Feb 12, 2013, 10:40 PMIn context
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Solving Problems The Square Way   —  Late last year, web design lead Geoff Koops sat in an interview opposite Jack Dorsey.  He was considering leaving Apple for Square, but before that was even option, he had to clear this most important hurdle in the interview process.
Jan 24, 2013, 1:55 AMIn context

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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).
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 …
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.
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.
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).