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Square and Box face a combination of high valuations, equally high burn rates, and a disappearing IPO market — The Valuation Trap — There is a long article on Square and Box in TechCrunch this weekend. I am not sold on the arguments the author makes about the commodity nature of both products.
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Business Insider. Tweets: @karaswisher, @bgurley, @davidmarcus, @howardlindzon, @bhorowitz and @dannycrichton
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
With IPO Hopes Fading, Square And Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products — Square and Box would seem to be the very epitome of every startup founder's dream of reaching the pinnacle of entrepreneurial success. Take a kernel of an idea and turn it into a massive, multi-billion-dollar company that publicly debuts in an IPO.
Tweets: @trengriffin
| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Twitter isn't dying: active users and timeline views don't capture the platform's vast reach — Twitter Is Not Dying — Well, that's it folks: Twitter is dead. It had a good flight. A short flight, but a noisy one. Sadly, it is now headed the way of Flappy Bird.
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Twitter's problem: the initial idea was so great that they never needed to learn their market — Twitter's Marketing Problem — Twitter's unconventional path is well-documented at this point. From failed podcasting company to playground sketch (actually, probably not) …
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| Donnie Berkholz / Donnie Berkholz's Story of Data: |
GitHub language trends and the fragmenting landscape — A while ago, I wanted to get a little quick feedback on some data I was playing with, but the day was almost over and I wasn't done working on it yet. I decided to tweet my rough draft of a graph of GitHub language trends anyway, followed later by a slight improvement.| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Facebook Woos Mobile Developers, but Is It Too Late? — Not so long ago, the key to building a successful app business required piggybacking on an existing big network like Facebook. — But relying on Facebook for your paycheck also meant being subject to the whims of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.| Harry McCracken / TIME: |
Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal — Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it's a shame more people don't learn to do it. For years now, that's been a hugely popular stance. It's led to educational initiatives as effortless sounding … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Nokia investing $100M in smart-car technology — The Finnish technology company aims to make money off the profound transformation of driving made possible by the combining automobiles with computing and networking technology. — Fresh after selling its mobile-phone business to Microsoft …
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| Carmel DeAmicis / PandoDaily: |
17-year-old Michael Sayman on building 4Snaps, meeting Zuckerberg, his Facebook internship, and appearing at F8 — How a Florida kid's “stupid app” saved his family's home and landed him on the main stage at Facebook — Michael Sayman is not your average tech entrepreneur.| Christopher Beam / The New Republic: |
Why Chinese URLs use Arabic numerals over Mandarin characters or Latin letters — Chinese Number Websites: The Secret Meaning of URLs — Decoding 4008-517-517.com — An American friend living in Beijing once said she refused to communicate with anyone whose email address consisted …
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Gizmodo and TheDomains.com
| David Segal / New York Times: |
Problem for advertisers: more than half of online video ads go unwatched below the fold, in tiny players, or played simultaneously with other ads — The Great Unwatched — Some of the biggest names in Internet media have been gathering in New York City at the third annual Digital Content NewFronts …
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Beet.TV. Tweets: @zimbalist, @rafat, @simonkhalaf, @pkafka, @rafat, @fredbenenson and @carr2n. See also Mediagazer
| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Updated Google Drive app now requires separate Docs and Sheets apps to edit files — Google Drive App Updated To v1.3 - Now Requires New Docs And Sheets Apps For Editing Capability [APK Download] — Google is sneaking one more update in this week, and it's an odd one.Sponsor Posts
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