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Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom on What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram — The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom … | Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Meet The ‘Liberator’: Test-Firing The World's First Fully 3D-Printed Gun — “Alright. One...two...” — Before “three” arrives, a shot reverberates across the overcast central Texas landscape. A tall, sandy blond engineer named John has just pulled a twenty-foot length of yellow string tied …
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YouTube reportedly near launch of paid channel subscriptions — Video-sharing site could launch a paid content platform for some of its specialist video channels as early as this week, according to The Financial Times. — YouTube reportedly could launch its paid subscription service … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google Glass' awkward interactions parodied on ‘Saturday Night Live’ — Google Glass and its new approach to a constantly-connected lifestyle has already been the butt of a number of jokes, including Tumblr blogs devoted to showing how ridiculous the device can be.
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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC — When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. It was a fun period for me because everything was new and I was curious. — What kind of deals should I be doing? — What stage? What price?| Brad Chacos / PC World: |
Amazon accidentally leaks world's first small-screen Windows 8 tablet — The first-ever small-screen Windows tablet made a brief appearance on Amazon.com today, before quickly being yanked from the online retailer's e-shelves. — While Acer was busy showing off a smattering …
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Where Mail With Illegible Addresses Goes to Be Read — SALT LAKE CITY — Inside a plain warehouselike office building filled with rows of cubicles, Melissa Stark stares at the image of an envelope on a computer screen. The handwriting is barely legible and appears to be addressed to someone in the “cty of Jesey.”| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
First Retina iPad Mini is on track: DisplaySearch update — The first refresh of the iPad Mini is coming in the third quarter, NPD DisplaySearch said Sunday, in an update. — Update: The iPad Mini will be refreshed in the third quarter with a retina display, according to NPD DisplaySearch.| Reuters: |
EU regulator takes aim at Google over Apple mobile patent lawsuit — (Reuters) - The European Commission said it believed Motorola Mobility, a unit of Google, was abusing its market position by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany over patents essential to mobile phone standards.| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
LinkedIn is 10 years old today: Here's the story of how it changed the way we work — Today marks a historic moment for one of Silicon Valley's biggest and well-known companies. It has been a decade since LinkedIn was founded as a business-related social network and now it has grown … | The Japan Times: |
Nintendo taps smartphone apps for console boost — OSAKA - Nintendo Co. is trying to modify its game consoles so customers can use smartphone applications on them as it searches for a way to return to profitability, company sources said. — The game console and software maker …
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HP redesigns its ProBook laptops for small businesses, prices start at $499 — Last fall, HP took a small step toward refreshing its ProBook business notebooks when it started offering some of them with AMD Trinity chips. Eight months later, it's time for a real makeover …
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The Weekend Interview With Gavin Andresen: Bitcoin vs. Ben Bernanke — The chief scientist for the digital currency talks about its appeal—and pitfalls—in a world of fiat money. — Could a virtual currency created by an anonymous Internet hacker someday replace the U.S. dollar?| Dan Kaminsky / Wired: |
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