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Sources: Apple, like HP, won't provide support or cash to the Republican National Convention over concerns about Trump, in break with past elections — Apple has told Republican leaders it will not provide funding or other support for the party's 2016 presidential convention …
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Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @jeffjarvis and @anzaloneliszt
Thanks:@tonyromm| Robert Graham / Errata Security: |
Background on the alternative cryptocurrency Ethereum, investment fund The DAO, and how they were exploited — The news in the Bitcoin world is the Ethereum/DAO hack. I thought I'd write up a simplified explanation. — What is Bitcoin? — I'm sure you know, or have an idea what Bitcoin is …
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Tweets: @pmarca, @effectstocause, @x0rz, @desantis and @frances_coppola
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
The “theft” of Ethereum from the DAO violated the DAO's intent, but not its smart contract, exposing tensions between blockchain idealism and real world systems — There's a fairly incredible trial going on in London right now. The Libyan Investment Authority is suing Goldman Sachs …
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Thanks:@_trendspotter| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
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Tweets: @edsu, @paxdickinson, @bryceweiner and @chrislundkvist
| Joe Nocera / New York Times: |
By creating a market for on-demand TV, Netflix spawned its own competitors and is struggling to survive, with a negative cash flow of nearly $1B — It helped to develop all the new ways we watch TV — on-demand, bingeing, mobile. But the Silicon Valley company still has to keep reinventing itself.
Tweets: @scottporch, @artypapers, @jonsteinberg and @sub8u
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM's Watson allows passengers to communicate with Olli, a self-driving minibus from Local Motors, using natural language — IBM today took the wraps off its first big foray into the world of self-driving cars, not as the driver of them, but as the brain behind making your self-driving journey a little more interesting.| Seth Fiegerman / Mashable: |
Behind the scenes at Tumblr after the Yahoo acquisition: new competition, a $240M writedown in February, and an uncertain future — After Marissa Mayer promised ‘not to screw it up’ — Marissa Mayer was running late. This time, it wasn't for a dinner with skeptical advertisers nor …
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| Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair: |
VC Aileen Lee, who coined the term “unicorn”, on diversity in tech, the startup downturn, and how the current wave of unicorns is peaking — Venture capitalist Aileen Lee discusses the role of women in technology, the start-up downturn, and whether we have (please, God) hit peak unicorn.| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Gear Fit 2 review: Samsung's $179 fitness band/smartwatch improves upon the original with built-in GPS, makes top-tier Fitbits look outdated — Samsung's $179 Gear device improves upon the first and should make others sweat. — It has been a couple of years since Samsung upgraded …
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Yahoo! Finance, Engadget, Gizmodo and TechCrunch
| Derek Thompson / The Atlantic: |
Pew: entire net growth in digital advertising happening on mobile, with Google and Facebook controlling half of net mobile ad revenue — In the early 1950s, television was popular, but unsophisticated. This was a common sentiment, even among the people who produced it … | Matt Graves: |
The history of Napster from rebel file-sharing software in 1999 to a legal music service in 2016 — Yesterday afternoon, the Rhapsody music service announced that it will retire the Rhapsody name, and re-brand its service (and the company) under the Napster brand.| Jermandbob / The Official BitTorrent Blog: |
BitTorrent refocuses on consumer media, spins off Sync into a stand-alone enterprise focused company Resilio, headed by former BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker — Today BitTorrent, Inc. moves to close one chapter and start another, as we announce the launch of Resilio, Inc. and the exit of our former CEO, Eric Klinker.
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Profile of Diane Greene, who is retooling all Google's cloud services to work for business customers and compete with AWS — The first thing to understand about Diane Greene, the woman Google acqui-hired in November to transform its fragmented cloud business, is that she has the mind of an engineer.Sponsor Posts
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