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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Full memo: Jeff Bezos responds to brutal New York Times story, says it doesn't represent the Amazon he leads — The cruel and back-stabbing environment described by The New York Times in a recent report on the workplace culture at Amazon.com has struck a nerve with Jeff Bezos …
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Tweets: @kennwhite, @jack_welch, @swardley and @pmarca
Thanks:@taylor_soper. See also Mediagazer| Nick Ciubotariu / LinkedIn Pulse: |
An Amazonian's response to “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” — Disclaimer and proviso: “The postings on this site are my own and don't represent Amazon's position in any way whatsoever”. — Update: I really appreciate the notes of thanks this post has received, here and on other social media avenues.
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New York Times, BBC, Re/code, ongoing by Tim Bray, TIME, Forbes, Inquirer, The Digital Reader, VentureBeat, NBC News, BuzzMachine, The Next Web, Boing Boing, Philip Greenspun's Weblog, USA Today, Digital Trends, Fortune, Re/code and Business Insider
Tweets: @joshmedia and @petersterne
See also Mediagazer| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
After Huawei and LG Nexus renders over the weekend, live picture of LG Nexus 5 leaks online — This could be Google's new Nexus 5 smartphone, built by LG — We waved goodbye to the Nexus 5 when Google stopped selling its 2013 flagship Android smartphone earlier this year, but it might be time to say hello to a revamped version.
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| Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic: |
Wikipedia's dwindling ranks of volunteer editors struggle to stop editors paid by PR firms — The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay — On January 11, 2013, James Heilman, an emergency-room physician and one of Wikipedia's most prolific medical editors … | M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Avoid being featured in the App Store at launch: your app will likely have issues and first-time users won't give you a second chance — Avoid the Feature — Early on, all those downloads are not your friend — It's right there, like a glittering lure in a dark sea. An email from Apple.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
IBM to build LinuxOne mainframes running Ubuntu Linux in partnership with Canonical; IBM joins Linux Foundation's new Open Mainframe Project — IBM Teams With Canonical To Put Ubuntu Linux On Mainframes — You might not think that ‘Linux’ and ‘mainframe’ belong in the same sentence …
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TechEye, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Reuters, Inquirer, Tech Times and The New Stack
| Serena Ng / Wall Street Journal: |
QVC to Acquire Online Shopping Site Zulily for $2.4 Billion — The owner of home shopping network QVC is acquiring five-year-old Internet retailer Zulily for $2.4 billion in cash and stock.
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Business Insider, Bloomberg Business, ABC News, Consumerist, Investor Relations and Reuters. Tweets: @danprimack
| Mike Hearn / Medium: |
Bitcoin Core committer releases Bitcoin XT fork allowing blocks larger than 1MB amid disagreement among Core committers — Why is Bitcoin forking? — So this is it. Here we are. The community is divided and Bitcoin is forking: both the software and, perhaps, the block chain too.
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lists.linuxfoundation …, Rusty Russell's Coding Blog, Guardian, AVC, CoinTelegraph.Com News, NEWSBTC, CoinDesk, Business Insider and Bitcoin Magazine
Tweets: @jgarzik, @vgr, @criccomini and @kevinmarks
| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Rambus, known for its many patent infringement lawsuits against chip makers, plans to sell chips under its own brand for the first time — Rambus Expands With Its Own Chip Brand — Rambus is announcing plans to sell chips under its own brand for the first time in its 25-year history.| Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal: |
Expedia extends termination date for Orbitz deal from August 12 to November 12 — Expedia Extends Termination Date for Orbitz Deal — Expedia has pushed back the termination date for its merger with Orbitz Worldwide by three months as the hotel industry urges the U.S. government to reject the proposed tie-up.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How distributed reflective DoS can amplify attacks while hiding the attacker's identity by exploiting weaknesses in the open BitTorrent protocol — How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites — uTorrent, Mainline, and Vuze most susceptible to DoS abuse, researchers say.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
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