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Prospectus for Silicon Valley’s Next Hot Tech IPO, Where Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong by John Flowers
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Form S-1 Registration Statement Under The Securities Act of 1933 Ponzify, Inc. LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS Forget Facebook. Forget Groupon. Forget everything you know about Silicon Valley. Because Ponzify isn’t like other tech companies. We don’t promise results. We show them to you, on a piece of paper, that has...
Prospectus for Silicon Valley’s Next Hot Tech IPO, Where Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong by John Flowers
Twitter CEO: Company Won't Be Ready For IPO For "A Couple Of Years"
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Don't expect a initial public offering of shares of Twitter anytime soon. CNN is reporting that the company has placed restrictions on employees who hold shares, forcing them to keep 80 percent of the shares they own. The cable news outlet cited company emails about the policy, which has been...
Twig: the most versatile iPhone charging cord/tripod hits Kickstarter
9to5mac.com
Apple’s medium-length, white docking cable is widely known for its, how would one say, cumbersome functionality when attached to iDevices. It comes in every iPhone, iPad, iWhatever box, and it is in desperate need of an update. Sure, reports indicate the next iPhone will sport a mini-dock connector, so maybe a...
Viral Video: "The Newsroom" Is Reborn
allthingsd.com
Here’s a new trailer for HBO’s upcoming series, “The Newsroom” by famed Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. The series — by the man behind the hit television show, “The West Wing” and the Facebook movie, “The Social Network” — is set at a cable news channel under siege in the...
Daily Wrap: The Domination of the Mobile Hardware Landscape and more
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Dan Rowinski investigates the dangers of the dominance of Samsung and Apple. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of...
People don’t care about scoops, they care about trust
gigaom.com
We’ve written a number of times about how social media and the “democratization of distribution” has compressed the news cycle to the point where the half-life of a scoop is measured in minutes rather than hours or days. And judging by a survey of media attitudes that Craigslist founder...
What’s next for Kevin Rose? How about Google Ventures partner.
venturebeat.com
Kevin Rose has joined tech giant Google’s venture capital firm Google Ventures, a spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat today. Rose is perhaps best known as the founder of community news sharing site Digg as well as his time as news correspondent for the Tech TV/G4TV cable news channel. Some of...
For a Few Minutes This Morning, President Obama Thought Health Care Had Been Overturned
www.theatlantic.com
The president was confused by cable news -- just like the rest of us....
People Get Their News from YouTube, Apparently?
betabeat.com
News you can use (if you are a hedgehog). Coming soon, to a Newsroom episode near you: The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reports today that people are increasingly turning to YouTube for news. And no, not just cuteness news, either. The report illustrates its findings with the example of...
Offline: Chicago
www.theverge.com
The concept of travel has nothing to do with the internet, but as I've traveled over the past month, I've found the practicalities have very much to do with the internet. I've been this month, for varying lengths, in California, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Mexico, and now, finally, New...
Healthcare, Journalism, And The Mad Dash For 'The Scoop'
www.techdirt.com
As you may have heard, when the Supreme Court came out with its ruling on healthcare, CNN and Fox News jumped the gun and incorrectly reported that the Court had struck down the individual mandate. Fox News corrected the mistake pretty quickly. CNN took a bit longer (and spread the...
Kid Racks Up $1400 Debt in FarmVille
mashable.com
Oh dear — looks like it’s time to add FarmVille to the list of internet addiction scares after a 12-year-old UK boy has amassed £905 in FarmVille debt. About £288 of that came from the boy’s own savings, while £625 was billed to his horrified mother’s credit card.The debt...
Why CNN's Digital Strength May Cause Problems For Fox
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CNN has become a prime-time ratings afterthought in the cable news business it started three decades ago, as Fox (NSDQ: NWS) News continues to dominate a traditional television realm mostly supported by older viewers. But online and on mobile, the tables are turned. Driven by a flurry of big...
Where Is The NPR Of Cable?
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This chart has been floating around: In response several bloggers have asked why no cable news show has mirrored NPR's success. Julianne Dalcanton doesn't understand the mystery: To me, the reason seems dead obvious. Radio is the only delivery mechanism that you can absorb while doing something else. Driving?...
HuffPo Unique Visitors Up 47%, Plans Streaming Network To Kill Cable News
techcrunch.com
Say what you will about The Huffington Post and AOL, their merger has given HuffPo the resources to conquer the online news aggregation business. Today HuffPo dropped some big stats about the year since its acquisition, most importantly a 47% growth of monthly unique visitors to 36.2 million. Next it’s...
Apple boycotts Fox News because of Glenn Beck
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Filed under: Apple CorporateA two-week old report by the Washington Post is only now gaining traction in the tech section. It appears that Apple has boycotted Fox News based on Glenn Beck and his ludicrous statements, including calling President Obama a racist and branding progressivism a "cancer." "More than 200...
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