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Yahoo May Bring Ads to Tumblr Blogs — With Permission
— Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer took a call with investors Monday morning to address Yahoo's $1.1 billion cash acquisition of Tumblr, fielding questions about how Yahoo plans to monetize a company that is not yet profitable but has a large and growing userbase.
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Amazon Cloud Player Launches PC App
— As part of its mission to bring its music service “everywhere,” Amazon announced the release of a dedicated Cloud Player app for desktop PCs Monday. The release comes less than a week after Amazon announced iOS compatibility with Ford Sync-enabled vehicles.
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Grooveshark CEO: 'I'm Broke'
— When Grooveshark's co-founder and CEO Sam Tarantino talks about what happened to his music startup between 2011 and early 2012, he doesn't hold back: It was, he says, “a year of getting punched in the face 10,000 times.” — During that period …
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Bitcoin Plunges By Nearly $30 As Largest Market Suffers Outage
— The value of digital currency Bitcoin fell from above $145 to below $117 Wednesday as Mt. Gox, the largest market for trading the digital currency, suffered an outage for approximately an hour.
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Teens' Nude Photos From Snapchat Lead to Investigation
— Students at one New Jersey high school could face child pornography charges if found in possession of nude photos of classmates — Explicit images sent via Snapchat prompted a police investigation after two freshman girls shared pictures …
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Twitter Now Supports Line Breaks in Tweets
— Twitter added support for line breaks Wednesday, a new feature that lets you spread your 140 character message over several different lines. — Supported on Twitter.com, as well as through Twitter's official mobile app, the feature can be used …
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Jerry Yang's Next Act: Startup Investor and Mentor
— Jerry Yang shares at least one thing in common with Marissa Mayer besides briefly holding the title of Yahoo CEO: Both Yang and Mayer are keeping a close eye on startups in the mobile space. But while Mayer is searching for mobile startups …
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ISPs Finally Explain How ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Program Will Work
— Internet Service Providers are finally revealing how they will implement a new anti-piracy system known as “Six Strikes” which has been rolling out this week. — The program, officially called the Copyright Alert System …
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Study Shows iPhone More Reliable Than Samsung Smartphones
… A new report from product Q & A site FixYa found that the iPhone was more reliable than smartphones made by Motorola, Samsung and Nokia. — The study looked at data from 722,558 problem reports listed on the site …
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Go Daddy Posts Biggest Sales Day in History After Super Bowl Ads Run
— The company on Tuesday reported that the Monday after the game was its biggest sales day in company history. The company provided Mashable with the following stats that illustrate a big increase over the comparable day in 2012:
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
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 …
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.