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Entrepreneurs Have Control When Things Work, VCs Have Control When They Don't
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I did an interview yesterday in Buffalo, NY where I was the past couple days for the launch of the Z80 incubator. Grove Potter, the Business Editor for the Buffalo News, interviewed me for something like an hour. It was a fun talk. At one point he asked me about...
Confirmed: News Corp to split into two publicly traded companies
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News Corp has announced today that it will split into 2 publicly traded companies. This comes as the confirmation of earlier rumors we reported on a couple days ago. More to follow, please refresh for updates....
HTC Evo 4G LTE Review: Head-To-Head With The iPhone 4S And The Galaxy Nexus
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The Evo 4G LTE is one of the best phones to land on Sprint shelves in a while, but that’s not to say it has no competition over at the Yellow carrier. The Galaxy Nexus has propped itself up as the Android phone to beat, while the iPhone 4S...
Microsoft Security Patch Marked Google.com As Malware
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Some of those who use Microsoft security software received a security patch a couple days ago that lead to malware warnings for users trying to visit Google.com. Softpedia posted a picture of the warning. Microsoft quickly learned about the issue on their support forums and issued a patch yesterday... Please...
Visualized: What the new Samsung Series 9 could have looked like
www.engadget.com
In case you haven't noticed, we've gotten multiple opportunities to talk shop with Samsung executives over the past couple days. After we finished grilling the R&D team on higher-res displays, we sat down with the designers behind the latest Series 9 Ultrabooks, and they surprised us by whipping out...
You’ll never believe how LinkedIn built its new iPad app (exclusive)
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Guess how much of LinkedIn’s new iPad app is actually mobile web and not native. Go ahead — guess. We’ve had a lot of fun asking people to guess this over the past couple days. They’ll start with 40 percent and edge up to 70 percent, but no one...
Spotify Says It Goes Better With Coke
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Here’s the news Spotify will announce at a press event in a couple hours: A big-dollar deal with Coke. CEO Daniel Ek made a preliminary mention of the deal during a speech at the Ad Age Digital conference, and promised more details later. But we can take a rough guess at...
Shocker: Apple and Samsung agree to nothing during their 2 day forced summit
9to5mac.com
A couple days ago we updated you on the ongoing legal battle between Samsung and Apple with Reuters reporting Samsung chief JK Shin was considering cross-licensing options ahead of court moderated settlement talks between Apple and Samsung scheduled for May 21. While it’s not much of a surprise to anyone...
10 ideas from the Guardian’s editor in chief Alan Rusbridger on open journalism
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During the Guardian Open Weekend that took place a couple days ago, its Editor in Chief Alan Rusbridger was asked if the newspaper had “rules” for open journalism. Rather than answering in private, he did what any ‘open journalist’ would do – and used its Twitter account to share ten very interesting ideas (“not...
Apple's Chilly Response to iPad Heat Complaints
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It’s not uncommon for Apple enthusiasts to start finding fault with their new gadget within a couple days of buying the latest and greatest. In some rare cases — most famously, with the iPhone 4 antenna — Apple may end up acknowledging some validity to the griping. But for now,...
"No Truth" To Report That News Corp Might Buy Monster In Spinout, Says Source (MMW, NWS)
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There is "no truth" to a Times report that News Corp may buy Monster.com in the next couple days, a source close to News Corp tells us. News Corp is considering whether to split in two – a very profitable entertainment division and a not-so-profitable publishing division. The New York...
Apps & updates: Tweetbot Alpha 3, IM+ Pro, Viber, more
9to5mac.com
There are more than a few apps and updates today worth mentioning, starting with the latest update for the recently launched Tweetbot for Mac Alpha: Tweetbot Alpha 3: After rolling out a huge update a couple days ago with notifications, keyboard shortcuts and other performance enhancements, today Tweetbot Alpha 3...
How Gramfeed went from a 2 hour project to a beast visited by 2 million people
thenextweb.com
We write about a lot of cool projects here at The Next Web and not all of them are meant to be turned into a full-time gig or profitable business. Companies like Twitter and Foursquare make APIs for its products publicly available to developers to tinker away on, helping to...
PostPost Fixes Twitter's Sucky Search
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Twitter's features need some work. It has search, and it has a discovery tab, but they're weak. Twitter is so focused on what's happening right this second that it lets deeper searching and browsing go by the wayside. Enter PostPost. It has been around for a while as a Twitter...
Nokia confirms Lumia 900 data problem, offering exchanges and $100 credits; firmware update around April 16th
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Nokia has just confirmed the data connection problems that some early buyers (and reviewers like ourselves) have seen on the Lumia 900, describing it as a "memory management" issue. That's the bad news; the good news, however, is that the company claims that it's strictly a software problem, not...
Nokia confirms Lumia 900 data problem, offering exchanges and $100 credits; firmware update around April 16th
Guy Adams Talks About His Time In Twitter Exile After NBC Olympics Tweets [TCTV]
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There has been quite a brouhaha around Twitter, NBC, and The UK Independent reporter Guy Adams these past couple days. It boils down to this: Adams’ Twitter account was suspended after he tweeted out the email address of the NBC executive in charge of the network’s much-criticized handling of...
In Which We Hold Google Accountable To A Core Principle It Seems To Have Abandoned (GOOG)
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In the about section of Google.com, there is a list called "Ten things we know to be true." The intro copy reads: "We first wrote these '10 things' when Google was just a few years old. From time to time we revisit this list to see if it still holds...
Images show Nokia Lumia 800 on China Telecom's CDMA network
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It looks like Nokia's Windows Phone rollout will soon be making its way to China, if some photos on microblogging site Weibo.com are to be believed. In the last couple days, a user on this site posted images of a Lumia 800 running on China Telecom's CDMA network (the...
HTC Rezound finally ready to receive Android 4.0 update
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Just a couple days short of its latest deadline, the HTC Rezound now appears to be ready to be knighted with Ice Cream Sandwich via an OTA update. Verizon has taken to its official site to publish upgrade instructions and benefits, indicating that the rollout has begun. Once your...
Facebook rolling out comment editing with a viewable history of all changes
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Facebook is rolling out a new feature that will allow users to edit their own comments on the site. Instead of deleting and reposting comments, you'll soon be able to simply edit them directly. When you do, Facebook will show an edit history to all users that will show...
Early benchmarks confirm third-generation iPad has 1GB of RAM
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The third-generation iPad has 1GB of RAM after all—at least according to some early benchmarks. Vietnamese site Tinhte.vn obtained one of the new devices a couple days ahead of schedule and immediately ran Geekbench. The app reported back that the device has 1GB of RAM and a Geekbench score...
Facebook adds comment editing, angels sing
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You friend just posted a vague, self-interested status update about how you really don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone and the 150 word poignant comment you just posted has one typo in it. One. Facebook is officially catering to you, with its new comment editing feature. One...
HP Pulled The Plug On Palm Two Years Early, Says Former Exec (HPQ)
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When HP bought Palm in April 2010, the company planned to give Palm products three years to succeed, according to a former executive. But after Leo Apotheker took over, the company changed directions and pulled the plug almost two years early. Phil McKinney was the chief technical officer of...
Sprint: Samsung Galaxy S III May Be Delayed
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Due to “overwhelming demand and limited supply,” Sprint says that customers who preordered the 16 gigabyte version of the new Samsung Galaxy S III could possibly receive their smartphones a couple days later than expected. Preorders kicked off on June 5, with early customers expecting to receive the device by...
Saturday’s ‘Leap Second’ Added More Heat To This Weekend’s Tech Meltdowns
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If you were hoping to spend the last couple days catching up with your favorite websites while maybe streaming a Netflix movie, you’ve probably discovered by now that you had pretty lousy timing for a lazy web-surfing weekend. On Friday, bad storms in the Southeastern United States knocked out a...
Sergey Brin clarifies thoughts on internet freedom, Apple, and Facebook
9to5google.com
A recent interview from The Guardian with Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been getting a lot of attention over the last couple days regarding Brin’s views on the freedom of the internet. While Brin still recommends reading the full article here, he posted a note on his Google+ account today...
Google brings new custom themes to Gmail
9to5google.com
Google just announced new custom themes will be coming to Gmail, allowing users to upload their own background images (or select from Google+ photos), browse from a selection of “Featured Photos”, or enter a URL of any image. The video above pretty much speaks for itself, but Google noted...
China Telecom Getting The iPhone 4S On March 9, Prices Start At Free
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China Telecom Getting The iPhone 4S On March 9, Prices Start At Free: This will get overshadowed by the new iPad unveiled a couple days before, but this is big news. China Telecom has 130 million customers. And, get this, one model of the 4S will be given away for...
More TV Buyers Look to LED Screens
allthingsd.com
For the first time, more U.S. TV buyers are looking to purchase LED TVs rather than cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) TVs, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli. Consumers who planned to buy an LED-backlit TV jumped to 54 percent in the last quarter of the year, a...
Google explodes into market research with easy-to-use consumer research tool
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World—meet Google Consumer Surveys: Just when it looks like Google has extended its reach into every dark corner of the Internet, the search engine launches a new service for reaping cash online. The Mountain View, Calif.-based Company has its press-machine in full swing with Software Engineer Tessa MacDuff and webspam team head...
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