Editorial: Hey, Paul Graham, It’s Not About Facebook
June 7, 2012Y Combinator founder Paul Graham tells portfolio companies to prepare for some lean times. Facebook did not need to be his whipping boy.
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Gossip Permeates 15 Percent of All Work Emails, Study Finds
June 7, 2012A recent study conducted by Georgia Tech has found that nearly 15 percent of the average 112 emails sent by workers daily can be classified as gossip, but finds it may not be such a bad thing.
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Here’s How To Check Whether Your LinkedIn Password Has Been Released
June 6, 2012Developers have thrown up a site that checks whether your password was among those released, more quickly than LinkedIn did.
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Swap-O-Matic: The Bartering Vending Machine
June 6, 2012If you see something you want behind the Swap-O-Matic’s glass display, cash or cards aren’t even an option. Instead, you’ll need to pick something you don’t need anymore, and offer it up for trade (the device relies on the honor system).
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Adventures in Airtime: What Seven Strangers Think of the Service
June 6, 2012Napster co-founders Sean Parker and Sean Fanning are working together again to push the boundaries of video on the Internet. We called up seven strangers on Airtime to see what they thought of the new service.
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Meebo Slow Cooked To $100 Million Sale
June 6, 2012Online chat client Meebo grew organically, relying on word of mouth and a deliberately-paced test phase to maintain a stable trajectory, according to co-founder Seth Sternberg. That strategy paid off this week, when Google acquired the service for a reported $100 million.
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Sony Introduces Augmented Reality Platform Wonderbook
June 6, 2012Sony stuck to big game announcements at this year’s E3 press conference, most notably introducing a unique augmented reality reading platform called Wonderbook.
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Google Steps Up Microsoft Rivalry With Quickoffice Acquisition
June 6, 2012In a move that could represent a gauntlet in a battle for mobile office suite share between Google and Microsoft, the former company acquired document, presentation and spreadsheet editor Quickoffice, which is available for most smartphone platforms.
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LockerDome Secures $1 Million In Six Weeks
June 6, 2012Sports social networking platform LockerDome announced today that it has secured more than $1 million in a round of funding led by Louis Arch Angels in St. Louis.
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Nintendo Finally Caters To More Serious Gamers, But Is It Too Late?
June 5, 2012During today’s E3 press conference Nintendo announced that some recent triple A titles will be making their way to the company’s upcoming console, the Wii U, but will it be enough to bring serious gamers back?
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