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Square and Box are trapped by their high valuations, 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.
Tweets: @dannycrichton and @bhorowitz
| 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.| 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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The Atlantic Online, Vox, TIME, ReadWrite and BuzzFeed
Tweets: @meryn, @lorenb, @hornokplease, @mikeisaac, @eric_andersen and @digiphile
Thanks:@anprtweets. See also Mediagazer| Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
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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Trends. Tweets: @simonowens, @carnage4life, @joshelman, @lorenb, @hershberg, @norrisnode and @monkbent
| Jessica Goldstein / ThinkProgress: |
Researcher's attempt to hide her pregnancy from big data described as inconvenient, expensive — Meet The Woman Who Did Everything In Her Power To Hide Her Pregnancy From Big Data — They see you when you're sleeping, they know when you're awake... CREDIT: Flickr/Robert Scoble
Tweets: @stevesi, @chouxsalad and @eric_andersen
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Cops who use Vigilant's vehicle tracking system must agree to secrecy TOS — Cops Must Swear Silence to Access Vehicle Tracking System — It's no secret that police departments around the country are deploying automated license plate readers to build massive databases to identify the location of vehicles.| 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.| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Alibaba I.P.O. May Unleash Global Fight Over Users — The largest technology stock offering in history is looming, but few in Silicon Valley seem to care. — The initial public offering expected soon in the United States by Alibaba Group Holding, China's largest e-commerce company …
Tweets: @hkanji and @jonrussell
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
PayPal's Strategy Exec: I Quit Before Twitter Tirade — Rakesh “Rocky” Agrawal, the PayPal strategy exec who unleashed on a couple of coworkers in a late-night Twitter rant earlier this weekend, said in a tweet on Sunday morning that he had resigned from the payments giant before his tirade.
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Tweets: @paypal, @rakeshlobster, @rakeshlobster, @rakeshlobster, @alex, @mikeisaac, @ryan, @edbott and @joshconstine
| James Galbraith / Macworld: |
2014 MacBook Air benchmarks: new processors perform better, flash storage is slower compared to 2013 models — Lab tested: New 2014 MacBook Air benchmarks — Apple on Tuesday released a minor update to its MacBook Air line of laptops. The changes included a subtle 100MHz increase …
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AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, iMore and MacNN
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Jury Finds Samsung Phones Infringe on Several Apple Patents, Awards $119.6 Million — A federal jury ruled Friday that Samsung infringed on at least one of the patents that Apple had sued over in its latest patent case. — The jury found all accused Samsung phones infringed on the first patent at issue …
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Tweets: @fmanjoo, @fosspatents, @fosspatents, @fosspatents, @fosspatents, @fosspatents, @parislemon, @fosspatents, @josh, @inafried, @fedcourtjunkie, @benedictevans, @scottmaustin, @hmintz, @markgurman, @drpizza, @benbajarin, @hmintz, @hmintz, @sharatibken, @hmintz, @hmintz, @hmintz, @9to5mac, @martyn_williams, @hmintz, @9to5mac, @9to5mac and @sharatibken
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
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Tweets: @jchengwsj and @fosspatents
| Lynn La / CNET News: |
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Turkey's Erdogan: One of the World's Most Determined Internet Censors — Some Worry Prime Minister's Tactics Could Become a Template for Other Countries — ISTANBUL—Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rode around Google Inc. headquarters last spring in the company's self-driving car …
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