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| Brandon Bailey / SiliconBeat: |
Google review by FTC has rivals, supporters weighing in
— Debate over the government's anti-trust review of Google is clearly heating up with the end of the year approaching, as I recently reported in the Merc. FTC chairman Jon Liebowitz has said he hoped to have either a resolution …
Nov 19, 2012, 5:25 PM–
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| Michael Honda / SiliconBeat: |
Rep. Mike Honda on what this election means to Silicon Valley
— Editors note: With the election approaching, we asked some folks we admire: What does this election mean to Silicon Valley? Between now and the election on Nov. 6, we'll be running the responses we received. Today, Congressman Michael Honda weighs on.
Oct 30, 2012, 8:45 PM–
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| Chris O'Brien / SiliconBeat: |
NY Times: Jack Dorsey role at Twitter reduced because he's “difficult” and indecisive
— Nick Bilton has a nice profile of Dick Costolo today in the New York Times. But perhaps the most intriguing passages, for me, had to do with his characterizations of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
Oct 6, 2012, 4:40 PM–
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| Brandon Bailey / SiliconBeat: |
Hastings, Moore, Wadhwani sign Giving Pledge
— Three more of Silicon Valley's wealthiest residents have signed on to the Giving Pledge, the campaign sponsored by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett that tries to egg the world's billionaires into giving away half their fortunes to philanthropy.
Sep 18, 2012, 8:25 PM–
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| Chris O'Brien / SiliconBeat: |
New SEC filings show questions Facebook faced in IPO process
— A series of new filings today disclosed a wide range of questions Facebook received from the SEC during its IPO process, including requests for greater disclosure about many of its metrics, its risks from the shift to mobile …
Jun 15, 2012, 11:50 AM–
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| Chris O'Brien / SiliconBeat: |
Hiring of Kevin Rose by Google sends all the wrong signals to Silicon Valley
— “Embrace failure” is the first thing anyone will tell you is the secret to Silicon Valley's success. There are other things of course, but that's likely the first thing that will pop out of people's mouths.
Mar 15, 2012, 6:20 PM–
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| Chris O'Brien / SiliconBeat: |
Mark Pincus of Zynga received threats in 2011 that led company to spend $1 million on additional security
— As expected, Zynga filed today to raise an additional $400 million in a secondary stock offering. One thing that caught my eye was a reference to founder and CEO Mark Pincus under the section of employee benefits:
Mar 14, 2012, 2:45 PM–
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| Chris OBrien / SiliconBeat: |
Did Elevation Partners take a hit on Palm investment?
— Did Elevation Partners take a hit on Palm investment? (1) — UPDATE: I just got a call from someone close to Elevation Partners who walked me through the numbers. Bottom line: Elevation expects to receive $485 million from the HP deal for the $460 million it invested.
Apr 28, 2010, 6:05 PM–
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| Chris OBrien / SiliconBeat: |
Looks like Netflix is dead. Again.
— Once again, Netflix has been placed on a death watch. But I'm not buying it for a second. We've heard that too many times over the company's history. And each time, the company has nimbly defeated new and established competitors, while growing like gangbusters in a horrid economy.
Jan 22, 2010, 7:50 AM–
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| Chris OBrien / SiliconBeat: |
The Innovation Age Bias At Sequoia Capital
— Today marks my return to blogging here after taking a couple months off. I'm going to jump in with some thoughts from an event I attended last night at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. — The event was a reception for students …
Jan 6, 2010, 9:05 AM–
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Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
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).