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A profile of Marc Andreessen and Andreessen Horowitz — Tomorrow's Advance Man — Marc Andreessen's plan to win the future. At his firm, Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capitalist routinely lays out “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years.”
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NASDAQ to test system based on blockchain technology for NASDAQ Private Market, its marketplace for pre-IPO trading, may extend it to stock market if successful — A Bitcoin Technology Gets Nasdaq Test — Pilot to take place in fledgling Nasdaq Private Market| Wall Street Journal: |
IDC: China Q1 smartphone shipments fall for the first time in 6 years, down 4.3% YoY, with Apple the largest vendor by market share — China's Smartphone Market Slows Down — With 90% of Chinese already owning a smartphone, handset makers look to win over ‘upgraders’
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
How are there so many unicorns? Survey of 37 unicorns by Silicon Valley legal firm shows liquidation preferences protecting investors in 100% of funding deals — Here's One Thing All the Billion-Dollar Unicorns Have in Common — They're called unicorns — young companies valued at $1 billion or more …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
How Microsoft's strategy for supporting apps developed for Android and iOS differs from similar plans by BlackBerry and IBM — Android and iOS apps on Windows: What is Microsoft doing—and will it work? — Running a competitor's apps has been done before. It hasn't worked.
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Apple announces new environmental initiatives for China, plans to expand its renewable energy projects to manufacturing facilities in the region — Apple announces new environmental initiatives for China: responsibly managed forests, solar for manufacturing
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| David Scheltema / Make: |
Next Thing Co. unveils CHIP, a $9 Raspberry Pi competitor with 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, running Debian Linux — Next Thing Co. Releases “World's First” $9 Computer — Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) — Snuggly situated in an industrial section of Oakland …
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Overcast's Apple Watch app redesign shows why scaled-down iPhone apps don't work well on Watch — Redesigning Overcast's Apple Watch app — I originally designed the Apple Watch app for my podcast player, Overcast, with a scaled-down version of the iPhone app's structure.
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| John McDuling / Quartz: |
Q&A with Google Ventures' Bill Maris on conflicts of interest, life sciences investments, international investments, and more — What it's like to run Google's $2 billion venture capital fund — When Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, decided to set up a venture-capital fund …
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Obama's 2013 plan to curb online espionage falls short as most prosecutions under Economic Espionage Act involve passing trade secrets without hacking — An Obama Plan to Stop Foreign Hackers Has Mixed Results — Two years ago, the Obama administration announced a new strategy to curb online espionage.
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| James Appell / Foreign Policy: |
Skolkovo, Russia's $4B tech incubator near Moscow, languishes as funding is cut and startups leave — The Short Life and Speedy Death of Russia's Silicon Valley — In 2009, Moscow unveiled an ambitious plan to build a world-class technology incubator. Then corruption, brain drain, and Putin killed it.
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