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How Airbnb and Lyft Finally Got Americans to Trust Each Other — In about 40 minutes, Cindy Manit will let a complete stranger into her car. An app on her windshield-mounted iPhone will summon her to a corner in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, where a russet-haired woman …
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RadiumOne Confirms That It Has Fired CEO Gurbaksh Chahal — RadiumOne just announced that its board of directors terminated CEO and Chairman Gurbaksh Chahal on Saturday night. The company said in an emailed statement that Chief Operating Officer Bill Lonergan will be taking over the CEO role.
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Says He Didn't Do It: “I Didn't Hit Her 117 Times” — It is hard to know where to start in this astonishingly vehement account that RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal just posted on his personal site, titled “Can You Handle the Truth?,” in which he defends himself from charges of domestic violence.
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| Gary Kamiya / San Francisco magazine: |
San Francisco Is Dead. Long Live San Francisco. — Yes, the city we know is going away. But, as has happened throughout its history, a new one will arise. Let's give it a chance. — In 1999, my wife and I saw a For Sale sign on a small house on Nob Hill, two blocks away from the apartment where we'd been living for years.
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| Gideon Lewis-Kraus / Wired: |
The story of Boomtrain: one startup's struggle to survive the Series A crunch — One Startup's Struggle to Survive the Silicon Valley Gold Rush — It was an unseasonably warm December, and somewhere nearby a rising tide in the San Francisco Bay was lifting all kite-surfers … | Ellen Cushing / San Francisco Magazine: |
Kara Swisher: AllThingsD was profitable, but Re/code will probably lose money this year — “I Think Google's Pretty Dangerous and Thuggish. I've Always Said That.” — Kara Swisher, outspoken tech journalist, has a lot on her mind. … San Francisco: You recently split …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
‘Anonymish’ App Secret Taps Into Android, Global Markets; UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand First Up — Secret - the iOS app that lets you share confessions, rumors, complaints and praise with your wider circle of friends without attaching your name to it- has captured the eye of early adopters in the US tech world.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Farewell Nokia: The rise and fall of a mobile pioneer — Nokia was once a dominant force in the wireless world. CNET takes a look at its successes — and what went wrong. Nokia's headquarters in Espoo, Finland, is known as Nokia House, or NoHo, and is the centerpiece of an industrial park on the bay.
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Net Neutrality: A Guide to (and History of) a Contested Idea — This week, news broke that the Federal Communications Commission is considering new rules for how the Internet works. — In short: the FCC would allow network owners (your Verizons, Comcasts, etc.) to create Internet … | Lee Fang / VICE: |
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Understanding the Crazy Math Apple and Samsung Use to Calculate Patent Damages — Listening to how Apple and Samsung calculate damages often feels like Alice's trip down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. — According to Apple's experts, consumers would pay tens or even upwards of $100 per phone for the patented features in the case.| Benedict Evans: |
Why iPad plateaued: tablets are eroding the PC market, but the smartphone is the transformative new category — iPads and tablet growth — Apple's revenue has pretty much stopped growing. This chart shows the quarterly revenue the company has reported - a series of ever larger spikes upward around …
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| Signe Brewster / Gigaom: |
Rabbit Proto makes it easier to get circuits into 3D printed objects — Circuit printers and 3D printers are relatively accessible these days. Rabbit Proto, an open source project based out of Stanford University, wants to make it a little bit simpler to put the two together with a set …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Bitcoin Slips Following News Of Fresh Restrictions In China — Bitcoin, which has recently traded under $400 and over $500, shed more than 10% of its value over the past few days, falling from around $500 to under $440, before recovering slightly. — As has happened many times in recent months …
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