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| Leo Mirani / Quartz: |
How Facebook could save Nokia
— On Tuesday, Nokia chief Stephen Elop fielded questions from irate shareholders at his company's annual meeting in Helsinki. When, they wanted to know, would he do something about Apple and Samsung? In London next week, Nokia will announce its new high-end flagship product, whatever it is.
May 9, 2013, 8:35 PM–
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| Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
New Zealand isn't exactly outlawing software patents—it's doing something more interesting
— Despite what you may have read, New Zealand is not “banning” software patents. Indeed, the country has never explicitly allowed the patenting of software in the first place …
May 9, 2013, 6:25 PM–
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| Tim Fernholz / Quartz: |
Why are liberal US tech entrepreneurs promoting oil drilling in a wildlife refuge?
— When the tech sector's leading lights, lead by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, committed to the immigration reform bill and formed a lobbying coalition called FWD.us to support it, I wondered whether they could sway conservatives.
Apr 27, 2013, 7:10 PM–
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| Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
Amazon doesn't reveal what it makes on cloud computing, but here's the number, anyway
— Amazon is famously reticent about sales figures, dribbling out clues without revealing actual numbers. But it appears the company has left enough hints to, finally, discern how much it makes …
Apr 26, 2013, 7:30 PM–
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| Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
China just surpassed the US in semiconductor manufacturing—and the trend is likely to accelerate
— Amount of materials used to produce semiconductors, by region. Quartz/SEMI — For the first time since the depths of the Great Recession, the the total value of materials consumed …
Apr 9, 2013, 6:45 PM–
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
The JOBS Act turns one, and let's be honest, it's a failure
— On April 5, 2012, in the Rose Garden of the White House, US president Barack Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, one of those distinctly American pieces of legislation that hits you over the head with an unequivocally positive acronym—in this case, JOBS.
Apr 5, 2013, 11:00 PM–
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
Google Reader's demise is awful for Iranians, who use it to avoid censorship
— Google's announcement that it's killing off Google Reader, the company's beloved, if not wildly popular, tool for consuming RSS feeds, was met with outrage from journalists and other, largely American nerds …
Mar 14, 2013, 6:15 PM–
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| Gina Chon / Quartz: |
Apple's plan for its cash: stock buyback or more dividends likely coming this spring
— Apple is leaning toward additional dividends or a share buyback program as part of its effort to return more cash to investors, according to sources. The US tech company could announce the move this spring …
Mar 12, 2013, 3:10 PM–
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| Gina Chon / Quartz: |
Intel is actively considering candidates for CEO from outside the company
— Intel is showing how serious it is about tackling the big challenges it faces by actively considering outside candidates for the company's next CEO. If one of them is selected, it would be the first time the world's …
Mar 9, 2013, 11:15 PM–
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
The history of Facebook as told through its ever-expanding list of profile fields
— The Facebook profile in 2005, 2006, and 2007 — An interesting new study (PDF) out of Carnegie Mellon University examines how students there, who first joined Facebook in 2005, have changed their privacy settings on the service over time.
Mar 7, 2013, 10:05 PM–
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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.
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.
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).
“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).