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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?| Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time: |
Don't Mess Up Tumblr: Five Lessons Learned from YouTube — When Google purchased YouTube there was lots of skepticism and outright derision. Today analysts estimate its enterprise value is approaching $20 billion. So I guess it all worked out, eh? Being one of the first Googlers …
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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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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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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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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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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.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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 … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
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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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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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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| 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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Chinese hackers who breached Google gained access to sensitive data, U.S. officials say — Chinese hackers who breached Google's servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years' worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials.| Bloomberg: |
Ergen Said to Bid $2 Billion for LightSquared Wireless Spectrum — Charlie Ergen, chairman of satellite-TV provider Dish Network Corp. (DISH), made a $2 billion bid for spectrum from LightSquared Inc., the bankrupt wireless-broadband company owned by Philip Falcone's hedge-fund firm, according to people familiar with the offer.Sponsor Posts
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