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| Paul Graham: |
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas — One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some. Any one of them could make you a billionaire.
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple Drives Silicon Valley's Biggest Leasing Boom Since 2000 — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is leading the biggest leasing surge in California's Silicon Valley since the dot-com boom, as the company scours the region for space before building a futuristic new headquarters.| Josh Ong / AppleInsider: |
Apple provides additional details, renders for Cupertino campus project — The city of Cupertino released on Friday updated plans and renders for Apple's Cupertino campus project providing additional views of the proposed facility. — Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs first unveiled plans …
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MacDailyNews, Cupertino City News and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Loopt's Sam Altman on Why He Sold to Green Dot for $43.4M — Mobile location start-up Loopt will be acquired by the banking company Green Dot, best-known for its prepaid cards. — The deal is worth $43.4 million in cash, though that includes $9.8 million set aside in retention payments for key Loopt employees.
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| Steve Tenerowicz / Know Your Cell: |
Popular mobile game developer Mika Mobile ending support for Android — Mika Mobile, developer of the popular games Battleheart and Zombieville USA, announced today that it will no longer be developing games for Google's Android mobile OS — Mika Mobile, developer of the hit Android games Zombieville USA …
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| Michelle Paulson / Wikimedia blog: |
Transfer of Wikipedia sites from GoDaddy complete — After months of deliberation and a complicated transfer, the Wikimedia Foundation domain portfolio has been successfully transferred from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor. The portfolio transfer was formally completed on Friday, March 9th, 2012.
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| Laura June / The Verge: |
5 Minutes on The Verge: Techmeme's Gabe Rivera — Gabe Rivera is the founder and editor of tech news aggregator Techmeme, which he started in 2005 as a one man operation, and which now has a staff of 10 people who also help to run its sister site, Mediagazer.
Tweets: @megan, @alexia, @zpower and @parislemon
| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
After Megaupload Bust, Putlocker and RapidShare Pick Up Slack — The Feds shut down Megaupload two months ago, but browser-based filesharing hasn't slowed down. It has just moved to other websites. Before the takedown, Megaupload was the most popular web-based filesharing service — by far.| Wall Street Journal: |
How ‘Kony’ Clip Caught Fire Online — An Internet video seeking to draw attention to fugitive African rebel leader Joseph Kony now stands as the fastest-growing viral phenomenon in Web history, thanks to informal celebrity advocates and young viewers. — Posted online on Monday … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Gundotra: Google+ Won't Let 3rd-Party Apps Post Because “Your Stream Could Easily Be Overwhelmed” — Today at his SXSW fireside chat, head of Google+ Vic Gundotra said “I am 100% to blame” for the social network lacking an API seven months after launch. The reason?
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Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, ABCNEWS, Marketing Land, CNET, SiliconFilter and AllThingsD. Tweets: @mikeindustries
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tether launches $30/year web-based tethering service for iPhones, works around Apple's restrictions — Tether made news in November, 2011 when Apple seemingly accidentally accepted their application into the iTunes App Store. The $14.99 piece of iPhone software allowed anyone to simply download …
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Tether.com, Pulse2 Technology …, App Advice, Softpedia News, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, The Next Web, CNET, Electronista, iPhone Savior, everythingiCafe and MacRumors. Thanks:@markgurman
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Army Warns Of Danger Of Geotagging — While for an ordinary civilian the automatic geotagging of your photos or check-ins might be convenient, in the military it can be a lethal mistake. In 2007, geotagged photos of a new fleet of helicopters allowed enemy forces to mortar the base …
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Gizmodo, Telegraph, WebProNews, INFOdocket and army.mil
| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
Nielsen report finds 56 percent of US households have a modern game console, total gaming time up seven percent — Nielsen is out with its annual survey of video game use in the US today, and it's found that gaming continues to be on the rise across the board.
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blog.nielsen.com, Fudzilla and USA Today
| Jennifer Howard / Chronicle of Higher Education: |
Google Begins to Scale Back Its Scanning of Books From University Libraries — Google has been quietly slowing down its book-scanning work with partner libraries, according to librarians involved with the vast Google Books digitization project. But what that means for the company's long-term investment in the work remains unclear.
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New York Times
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
PayPal's New Digital Wallet Will Offer Personalized Deals, Flexible Payments, And More — We've been hearing recently about PayPal's in-store payments platform for large retailers (which will soon be rolled out to small businesses as well). But we haven't seen PayPal do much in the past few months …
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VentureBeat and GigaOM
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