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| 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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| 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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Swarm, interfluidity, CoinDesk, Preston J. Byrne, Recode, Engineering. Distributed, CoinDesk, Engadget and The Merkle
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Thanks:@_trendspotter| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
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Tweets: @edsu, @paxdickinson and @bryceweiner
| Tony Romm / Politico: |
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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Business Insider, Fortune, Patently Apple, Tech Times, Daring Fireball, The Huffington Post, Digital Trends, CNET, MacRumors, Mashable, Recode, Engadget, 9to5Mac, SiliconBeat, The Verge, MacNN, AppleInsider, Newser, iMore, BuzzFeed and MacDailyNews
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Thanks:@tonyromm| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Boxee founder Avner Ronen launches Public, an iOS app for broadcasting group text chats; chats can be embedded on websites and shared on social media — For eight long years, Avner Ronen tried to reinvent television with his consumer electronics startup Boxee.| 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.| 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: @artypapers, @jonsteinberg, @sub8u and @scottporch
| 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.
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Nextgov, TechSpot, Mercury News, Recode, The Verge, Phys.org, TechnoBuffalo, Autoblog, Quartz, Marketing Land, SlashGear, Digital Trends, PYMNTS.com, FactorDaily, Engadget and 3DPrint.com
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
A look at Ola CEO and co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal's tactics in competing with Uber in India — Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder of the ride-hailing service Ola, is in a pitched battle with Uber Technologies Inc. for domination of India's streets. But late last year, the streets of Chennai disappeared … | 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.| Marisa Kendall / Mercury News: |
Twilio sets price range for 10M shares at $12 to $14 for its IPO, valuing company at around $1B, close to its latest private round — SAN FRANCISCO — Cloud communications company Twilio is poised to end Silicon Valley's tech IPO drought next week with a $130 million market debut.
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Bloomberg, MarketWatch, NASDAQ.com, Seeking Alpha, Silicon Valley Business … and Inc.com
| Arthur Scheuer / VentureBeat: |
Xavier Niel, founder of French coding school 42, now with campus in Silicon Valley, explains how a school without teachers, lectures, or tuition fees works — EXCLUSIVE: — 42 is the answer to the ultimate questions about life, the universe, and everything.| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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