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Lauren Indvik / Mashable:
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.
May 20, 2013, 11:25 AMIn context
Lauren Indvik / Mashable:
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.
May 13, 2013, 8:20 PMIn context
Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
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 …
Apr 22, 2013, 7:35 PMIn context
Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable:
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.
Apr 3, 2013, 4:45 PMIn context
Camille Bautista / Mashable!:
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 …
Mar 14, 2013, 4:00 PMIn context
Emily Price / Mashable!:
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 …
Mar 14, 2013, 5:35 AMIn context
Seth Fiegerman / Mashable!:
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 …
Mar 5, 2013, 8:25 PMIn context
Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!:
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 …
Feb 28, 2013, 8:50 AMIn context
Emily Price / Mashable!:
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 …
Feb 22, 2013, 9:10 PMIn context
Todd Wasserman / Mashable!:
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:
Feb 5, 2013, 3:50 PMIn context

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Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup - FormVerse  —  If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email.  If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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:
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 …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Boosting Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem with Splunk Alliance  —  Today we announced a strategic alliance with operational intelligence leader Splunk.  We are excited to be strengthening our relationship …
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).