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Leaked Photos Of A Motorola Pre-Production Device: This May Be The Moto X+1 — We've been hearing rumors and seeing at least some evidence of a new Motorola flagship for the past few months. The Moto X was released in August of last year, which makes it just about time for a refresh in the current yearly phone cycle.| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
How later IPOs and other big trends are changing the structure of the VC industry — The Changing Structure of the VC Industry — There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. — On the surface the narratives have been
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Apple Secretly Acquired “Pandora For Books” Startup BookLamp To Battle Amazon — TechCrunch has learned that Apple has made another acquisition, one that it is using to boost its e-books effort and “beat Amazon at its own game.” It has bought BookLamp, a startup based out of Boise, Idaho …
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| Brendan Sasso / National Journal: |
Cable Companies: Google Threatens Net Neutrality, Not Us — Internet service providers are urging the FCC to regulate popular websites. — The real threat to online freedom is from Internet giants like Google and Netflix, according to major cable companies.
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| Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat: |
Marc Andreessen takes to Twitter to quote bad predictions about Facebook through the years — Marc Andreessen takes a walk down memory lane with Facebook doubters — Marc Andreessen has been a Facebook investor from very early on. Andreesson, who has been given to launching …
Tweets: @pmarca, @spencerante and @davemcclure
| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
AWS in fight of its life as customers like Dropbox ponder hybrid clouds and Google pricing — AWS doesn't have the public cloud to itself anymore. It faces two gigantic competitors trying to poach reference customers and growing adoption of hybrid cloud. — For many years Amazon Web Services was the only public cloud in town.| Kevin Bullis / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers demo cheaper resistive random access memory fabrication, raising prospect of terabyte chips for smartphones — Super-Dense Computer Memory — Researchers have discovered a new way to make chips that could pack terabytes into smartphones. — A novel type of computer memory could …
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
With photo-based key-copying services like KeyMe, simply allowing others to view your keys poses a security problem — The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor's Home — When I broke into my neighbor's home earlier this week, I didn't use any cat burglar skills. I don't know how to pick locks.
Tweets: @newsmary, @chartier, @lainnafader, @joemfbrown and @kashhill
| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Premium not freemium: Fleksy follows in SwiftKey's footsteps with a new store for themes — Fleksy's regular Android updates continues today with the news that the smart keyboard app is getting a general design refresh alongside a brand new Fleksy Store for premium content.
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| Anil Dash / Medium: |
As messages intended for friends increasingly become media fodder, what does “public” mean? — What Is Public? — It's so simple, right? — Someone could make off with all your garbage that's put out on the street, and carefully record how many used condoms or pregnancy tests …
Tweets: @icann_atlarge, @beep, @cutting, @craigmod, @sarahkendzior and @anildash
| Alex Wawro / Gamasutra: |
How Glu Mobile refit an earlier game to make chart-topping “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood” — Q&A: Keeping up with hit mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood — Reality TV star and actress Kim Kardashian has conquered everything from cable TV to bottled water with some stupendous branding tactics.
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| Megha Bahree / New York Times: |
Indian startups like Autowale connect auto-rickshaw drivers with riders via SMS — Text and Ride in India — PUNE, India — When Praveen Narayan Dusane first started driving an auto-rickshaw in this crowded college town, he had to hustle for every rupee. He could wait hours at a rickshaw stand for passengers.Sponsor Posts
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