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Venture Firm Greylock Partners Outshines Silicon Valley Rivals — A group of 40 investors, executives, and entrepreneurs gathered at the Carneros Inn resort in Napa Valley, Calif., in June for a two-day conference on initial public offerings. LinkedIn (LNKD) Chief Executive Officer Jeff Weiner … | Susan Berfield / Businessweek: |
The End: Barnes & Noble in Silicon Valley — As the chief executive of Barnes & Noble (BKS) from 2010 to 2013, William Lynch might have had one of the most difficult jobs in the retail business. He made it harder still by running a large chain of bookstores as though it were a tech startup.| Yulia Ponomareva / Russia Beyond The Headlines: |
Yandex co-founder Ilya Segalovich dies at 48 in London — Ilya Segalovich, co-founder of Yandex, Russia's largest search engine, was disconnected from life support on July 27. … Arkady Volozh, the other founder of Yandex, announced the sad news on the official company blog on July 28.| CJ Heres / GTV Hacker: |
Chromecast: Exploiting the Newest Device By Google. — On Wednesday, July 24th Google launched the Chromecast. As soon as the source code hit we began our audit. Within a short period of time we had multiple items to look at for when our devices arrived.| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Angels Get Carry For Helping A Startup Raise Money With AngelList Syndicates — AngelList is testing out a new service that lets angel investors syndicate deals with each other, a feature that could allow startups to raise venture-sized rounds of money with relative ease.
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The Secret FISA Court Must Go — We are assured the secret FISA court is keeping a close eye on government surveillance, but the truth of what it has done and justified is terrifying. Law professors Christopher Sprigman and Jennifer Granick argue that the court must go.| Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: |
Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars — High court imposes injunction on Flavio Garcia, who has cracked security system of cars including Porsches and Bentleys — A British-based computer scientist has been banned from publishing an academic paper revealing …
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Advertising Giants Announce $35.1 Billion Merger — Two leading advertising companies, Omnicom Group and Publicis Groupe, announced a merger on Sunday that would create the world's biggest family of agenices, with a stock market value of $35.1 billion and 130,000 employees.
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Michael Dell Says He Plans to Stay at PC Maker Even if His Buyout Attempt Were to Fail — Dell Inc. Chief Executive Michael Dell, pushing to save his buyout heading into another frantic week, said that even if the deal were to fail he would stay at the company he founded … | Justine Sharrock / BuzzFeed: |
How Many Retweets Is San Francisco's Tax Break Worth? — When “giving back” means encouraging people to use your product, everybody wins. — A blackboard in Twitter's cafeteria where Twitter employees are asked to share ideas on how the company can “better serve the community.”
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In the Beginning Was the Word; Now the Word Is on an App — EDMOND, Okla. — More than 500 years after Gutenberg, the Bible is having its i-moment. — For millions of readers around the world, a wildly successful free Bible app, YouVersion, is changing how, where and when they read the Bible.| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
PRISM revelations result in lost business for US cloud companies — The reach of NSA's PRISM program has spooked some overseas companies from using US cloud providers. — The revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) broad monitoring of traffic and access to the data …
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Insight: How Samsung is beating Apple in China — (Reuters) - Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that “over the arc of time” China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which has been around far longer … | Ryan Knutson / Digits: |
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