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The One-Person Product — In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies. That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client, David said that we were going to make a prototype of an idea he'd had for a while.
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The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars — It's being reported Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion. You may recall Instagram was profiled on HighScalability and they were also bought by Facebook for a ton of money. A coincidence? You be the judge. — Just what is Yahoo buying?
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A better, brighter Flickr — In the beginning, Flickr innovated the way people share and discover photos. Today, we are shifting the photo-sharing landscape again. We're releasing a Flickr that's more spectacular, much bigger, and one you can take anywhere. — Biggr. A free terabyte of space
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Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage — The new Flickr is live. — Smack-dab in the middle of Yahoo-Tumblr aqcuisition day, Yahoo is holding a major press event here in NYC. But announcements coming out of this event aren't related …
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Senate investigators: Apple avoided $44 billion in taxes — Senate investigators accuse Apple of wiring together a complicated system to shield billions of dollars in international profits from both U.S. and foreign tax collectors. — A report released ahead of Apple CEO Tim Cook's inaugural … | Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
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You are your data: The scary future of the quantified self movement — Few if any consumers who fell behind on their credit card payments in the early 2000s thought that half a decade later employers would use their credit score to determine their job worthiness.| Wall Street Journal: |
Hazards of the Buzzy Startup in Light of Tumblr Buy — Yahoo's Purchase of Tumblr Puts Spotlight on Highfliers Like Pinterest, Quora With Little Revenue — Yahoo Inc.'s $1.1 billion deal for Tumblr Inc. is a fairy-tale ending for the blogging site, which fetched a rich price despite its meager revenue.| Donna Tam / CNET: |
NY official: Airbnb stay illegal; host fined $2,400 — An administrative law judge decides that a man leasing a condo broke New York's laws after he rented out part of his home on Airbnb. — New York officials have determined that a man who rented out part of his apartment on Airbnb … | Melissa Grey / Engadget: |
Microsoft launches The Music Room, an interactive TV series on Xbox Live — A day ahead of its hotly anticipated Xbox event, Microsoft has announced a new interactive TV series entitled The Music Room, exclusively on Xbox Live. As a part of Microsoft's drive to beef up Xbox's entertainment content …
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The man who ‘nearly broke the internet’ — Sven Olaf Kamphuis is accused of global cybercrime, but Spanish police found him in a squalid flat with his name on the letterbox — The day Sven Olaf Kamphuis parked his huge orange Mercedes van with its German numberplates outside Bar Javis …
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Fab Raising At Least $250 Million — The billion-dollar startup club may soon get a new member. — Online design retailer Fab Inc. is in advanced talks to raise $250 million to $300 million in venture capital in a deal that would value the fast-growing but unprofitable company at $1 billion …
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Hangouts, phone calls and Google Voice — Thanks for all of your feedback on last week's Hangouts launch. I wanted to quickly talk about 1) making/receiving phone calls in Gmail, and 2) Google Voice support more generally. 1) Today's version of Hangouts doesn't yet support outbound calls …
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AT&T says ‘any’ mobile video chat app will work on its network by the end of 2013 — When Google Hangouts first launched, we noted that AT&T Android customers couldn't use its video chat capabilitieson a cellular network. A statement from AT&T implied that video chat could be used on downloaded apps … | Alexis Santos / Engadget: |
Google Checkout for web merchants to be retired on November 20th — Although Google Checkout was rolled into Google Wallet at the end of 2011, it's still been an option for folks who peddle their wares online to collect payments. Come November 20th, however, the service will officially shut down.
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Square Cash Will Let You Send Money To Your Friends By Email — Square's not just for businesses apparently, as an invite-only page for a product called “Square Cash” has popped up. Not many details are known about it, but we've reached out to the company for comment.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Think your Skype messages get end-to-end encryption? Think again — If you think the private messages you send over Skype are protected by end-to-end encryption, think again. The Microsoft-owned service regularly scans message contents for signs of fraud, and company managers may log the results indefinitely, Ars has confirmed.
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Apple retail revenues per visitor reach new record — In the US, on a sales per square foot basis, Apple retail continues to perform twice as well as Tiffany & Co., the second best retailer, and three times as well as lululemon athletica, the third best retailer.
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