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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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
After Several Public Google Maps Hacks, Google Forced To Suspend Map Maker To Prevent More Fake Edits — Google has temporarily suspended Google Map Maker, a service to allow the community to make edits to Google Maps similar to how Wikipedia edits work. The reason the service was suspended … | Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
All about Microsoft's Edge Browser: Extensions, high performance asm.js, and no more ActiveX — And no chance of open source any time soon. — Microsoft has spent the past few days talking about the new browser formerly known as Project Spartan: what it will do, what it won't do, and what it won't do yet but will do soon.
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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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| Teppei Kasai / Reuters: |
SoftBank names Nikesh Arora president and Son's likely successor — Japan's SoftBank Corp unveiled a management reshuffle on Monday, appointing investments head Nikesh Arora as president and naming him as a potential successor to CEO Masayoshi Son, as the telecoms conglomerate steps up its overseas expansion.
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Report: Cyber attacks costs US healthcare system $6B annually; nearly 90% of healthcare providers were hit by breaches in the past two years — Rising Cyber Attacks Costing Health System $6 Billion Annually — A rise in cyber attacks against doctors and hospitals is costing …
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
iOS slips to 72% enterprise share in Q1 2015, Android hits 26%, and Windows Phone stays flat at 1% — Entering into 2015, Apple continues to rule the mobile enterprise space. iOS lost just 1 percentage point over the last quarter, dipping to 72 percent of global device activations in Q1 2015.| Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post: |
As fitness wearables and sensors become more pervasive, important questions remain about privacy and the usefulness of health data tracking — From the instant he wakes up each morning, through his workday and into the night, the essence of Larry Smarr is captured by a series of numbers … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
News Digest App “NYT Now” Drops Subscription Pricing, Offers Brand Sponsorships Instead — The New York Times said today it's ditching the paid subscription model for its mobile app NYT Now, after failing to convert a significant number of mobile users to subscribers.
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| Jason Verge / Data Center Knowledge: |
Microsoft Invests In Several Submarine Cables In Support Of Cloud Services — Microsoft is investing in several submarine cables to connect data centers globally and in support of growing data network needs. The latest investments strengthen connections across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, connecting several countries.
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