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Jeff Jordan / Fortune:
Godzilla vs. Mothra, the sequel   —  What happens when two giants collide?  —  FORTUNE — Amazon and Google are on a collision course.  —  When I was at eBay, we had a belief that no one was going to compete with us by replicating exactly what we were doing.  We had first mover advantages and network effects.
May 8, 2013, 10:40 PMIn context
Dan Primack / Fortune:
CrunchFund's future   —  With nearly 100 portfolio companies and just two remaining partners, what is the future of Michael Arrington's venture capital effort?  —  FORTUNE — It has been 20 months since TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington launched CrunchFund, a venture capital firm …
May 7, 2013, 4:20 PMIn context
Michael Fitzpatrick / Fortune:
How the iPhone conquered Japan   —  Despite its more-or-less mundane technology, Apple's device won over women.  —  FORTUNE — The Japanese were using their cellphones to watch TV, navigate with GPS, download music, make movies, pay bills, and check their emails years before American consumers were doing the same.
May 7, 2013, 4:20 AMIn context
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Exclusive: New York City's newest VC firm   —  Most of AOL Ventures team spins out.  —  FORTUNE — At just 29 years old, Mike Brown Jr. is already a venture capital veteran.  He began by investing Richard Branson's money at Virgin Group, before leaving in early 2010 to co-found AOL Ventures.
May 2, 2013, 12:55 PMIn context
Miguel Helft / Fortune:
Lenovo-IBM talks over server business break down   —  Valuation concerns have scuttled negotiations, according to a person familiar with the talks.  —  FORTUNE — Negotiations between Lenovo and IBM over a multi-billion dollar deal under which Lenovo would acquire parts of IBM's server business …
May 1, 2013, 5:50 PMIn context
Christopher Tkaczyk / Fortune:
Marissa Mayer breaks her silence on Yahoo's telecommuting policy   —  Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks about ending the work-from-home policy, saying it was “wrongly perceived as industry narrative.”  —  FORTUNE — In the closing keynote at the Great Place to Work conference at the Hyatt Regency Century City …
Apr 19, 2013, 2:35 PMIn context
Jessi Hempel / Fortune:
The second coming of Facebook   —  Back in 2010 Mark Zuckerberg made a very bad decision.  Instead of building separate apps for iPhones, Androids, BlackBerrys, Nokia devices, and, yes, even Microsoft phones, he put his engineers to work designing a version of Facebook that could operate on any smartphone.
Apr 14, 2013, 5:00 AMIn context
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
48% of U.S. teens own an iPhone.  62% plan to buy one.   —  23% are looking to buy an Android phone, up from 22% last fall.  —  FORTUNE — The results of Piper Jaffray's 25th bi-annual teen survey came in Tuesday afternoon.  Once again, it showed Apple (AAPL) to be the most desired brand …
Apr 9, 2013, 10:20 PMIn context
Miguel Helft / Fortune:
Android: Facebook's new weapon against Google   —  Facebook's major announcement really amounts to one thing: The social network is using the search giant's own platform against it.  —  FORTUNE — The last time Google and Facebook had a chance to make friends was October 2007, when the two companies discussed an advertising alliance.
Apr 4, 2013, 2:25 PMIn context
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
iPad price cuts: A signal Apple is about to release new ones   —  WalMart, BestBuy and MacMall have all lowered their prices on iPads and iPad minis.  —  FORTUNE — It's only been 163 days since Apple (AAPL) introduced the iPad mini and updated its full-size iPad line …
Apr 4, 2013, 11:35 AMIn context

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Cloud Foundry:
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Rackspace Blog:
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.
Hortonworks » Blog:
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.
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).