Now that Diaspora, which is building an open-source distributed social network, has launched in private alpha, I figured it&'d be a good idea to remi... read more »
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It is 25 degrees here in NY and I feel like a wuss. We California people aren&'t cut out for the weather out here. I&'ve got thermal underwear (top &a... read more »
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Sometime in the last week or so, we&'ve heard from multiple sources, Accel Partners has sold very significant chunks of Facebook stock. So significant... read more »
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Raise your hand if you could stand to be better about task tracking. Keep your hand raised if you rely on email entirely to manage your tasks. Issu... read more »
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King.com, a popular casual gaming site with 25 million unique players a month, is moving into social games in a big way.The company is debuting 26 ski... read more »
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Music games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band once lit up the charts of video game sales. But then they plunged into an abyss as gamers got tired of t... read more »
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Life is good for the reigning Android hardware king Samsung. The company released its record-breaking earnings report (PDF link) for the fourth quar... read more »
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Today at Facebook&'s event in Palo Alto, CA, the company had a lot to say about their mobile platform. Yes, they had updates to their Android and iPh... read more »
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Google&'s App Engine, a platform that helps developers build web applications by streamlining some of the work they&'d typically have to do themselves... read more »
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Today at its mobile event, Facebook executives Mark Zuckerberg and Erick Tseng gave some (vague) answers as to why there still isn&'t an official iPad... read more »
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An even weirder than usual episode of Why Is This News this week ending up with Mike Arrington heckling us through the wall of the studio. But before ... read more »
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When you think of hot social networking companies, MyLife probably isna4ぎa4д the first one that comes to mind. Or the second. But chief executive Je... read more »
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Kabbage, which runs a service that helps eBay sellers pick up a quick cash advance, announced today that it has raised $6.65 million in its first roun... read more »
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Today, the senate voted to work on a bill called the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act that would, among other things, require food producers, facili... read more »
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Doodle Jump, an enormously popular game on the iPhone built by two brothers in New York, has been downloaded more than 10 million times across the iP... read more »
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OnLive, the online gaming service, has hired as its new chief operating officer Etienne Handman from cloud-music service Pandora.Handman replaces Mike... read more »
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Signaling renewed competition in the e-reading space, Amazon today debuted a web-based extension to their existing Kindle platform with a new product ... read more »
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[Update: added comments from kn0thing a4ぎa4揩Alexis Ohanian's Twitter handle a4ぎa4 on Y Combinator's Hacker News website]Priceline today announced... read more »
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Back in about 2002 or so when Toshiba and a few others tried to sell tablets to businesses and consumers. This was around when Bill Gates was floggin... read more »
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