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Neetzan Zimmerman to leave Gawker
Gawker viral content mastermind Neetzan Zimmerman is leaving the company for social network startup Whisper, he told Capital on Friday. Zimmerman will be the editor in chief of the social secret-sharing app that has recently been attracting tens of millions of dollars from investors.
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Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs
Apple has acquired the one-man photo technology startup SnappyLabs, maker of SnappyCam, sources tell me. The startup was founded and run solely by John Papandriopoulos, an electrical engineering PhD from the University Of Melbourne who invented a way to make the iPhone’s camera take full-resolution photos at 20 to 30 frames per second — significantly faster than Apple’s native iPhone camera.
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Yahoo Announces That It Has Acquired “Intelligent Homescreen” Startup Aviate
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just made her first announcement onstage during her Consumer Electronics Show keynote — that the company has acquired Aviate, a startup that taps the apps on your smartphone to bring up information at the moment that it’s relevant.
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Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Explains The Surprising Goal Of His New Company, Jelly
Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone revealed his top-secret new startup Jelly, a mobile app that enables users to ask short questions of their social network through pictures. For instance, Stone snapped a photo of an art piece in San Francisco, asked his network what it was, and got a few dozen answers.
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Zuckerberg: Why I Stayed Facebook CEO Even Though Many Thought I Should Quit
The Facebook founder didn't have any executive experience or any work experience, but he decided to stay on as a CEO of Facebook, despite the critics.
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Supreme Court to Hear Aereo Case
The Supreme Court will hear broadcasters’ challenge to the legality of startup Aereo, in a case that may determine not only the future of digital streaming of station signals but of network television itself.
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Facebook Acquires Branch Media Team To Lead New “Conversations” Group
It looks like Facebook has acquired Branch Media, the startup behind conversation service Branch and link-sharing service Potluck. Co-founder Josh Miller made the announcement on Facebook. He said his team will be forming a new Conversations group, which will be based in New York City, “with the goal of helping people connect with others around their interests.”
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Spam could kill Snapchat, and Evan Spiegel doesn't seem to care
Snapchat has a big problem. Its dramatic increase in spam? Sure, that too. But the big problem is Evan Spiegel's outrageous arrogance that his users' annoyance doesn't concern him.
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Could This Christian Horror Film About a Demon-Possessed Porn Magazine Be 'The Room' of 2014?
That is a direct line from one of the characters in The Lock In, a The Blair Witch Project-like Christian horror film made for the web by Holy Moly Pictures, a Christian startup company. In the movie, high school seniors attend a church lock-in. One student brings a pornographic magazine to the lock-in, and the magazine is possessed by a demon.
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Dropbox and Uber: Worth Billions, But Still Inches From Disaster
Dropbox went dark over the weekend. According to the company, the widespread outage was the result of a bug it introduced while updating the hundreds of computer servers that drive its massively popular file-sharing service. But the problem was bigger than that. The San Francisco-based startup not only faced countless complaints from users across the net, it was forced to deflect rumors that the service was hacked, something that turned out to be a hoax.
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OneWheel Electric Skateboard
Onewheel started with a vision of the future - one where fast, fun, electric transportation makes getting around our cities a joy. Then we spent a ton of time putting together the best technologies we could buy and inventing the ones we couldn't.
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Ouya co-founder departs the gaming startup
Ouya is a console alternative to the more traditional systems from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. It is tiny, only costs $100, and runs Google’s Android operating system. The idea of the box is to let developers make games for the television using the same style of distribution that smartphones and tablets use.
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Surveillance fallout hits startups hard, execs say
Clients in Europe, Asia and elsewhere are saying “no thank you” to American-made products for fear that they have flaws that government and other hackers can infiltrate, said Brough Turner, founder and chief technology office of netBlazr, a broadband company based in Watertown, Mass.
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With Traction But Out Of Cash, 4chan Founder Kills Off Canvas/DrawQuest
“There’s a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that’s the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on,” says moot aka Christopher Poole. So rather than raise more money for his remix artist community Canvas and game DrawQuest, later today he’ll announce they’re closing. “No soft-landing, no aqui-hire, just ‘shutting down’...
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BeWifi lets you steal your neighbor’s bandwidth when they’re not using it
By aggregating wireless signals, Telefonica is trying to make unreliable Wi-Fi better.
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Twitter, Box, and Dropbox attracting hordes of employees away from tech giants
Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Apple lost a significant chunk of workers to startups in 2013. Jobvite released a report today on hiring patterns in the tech industry, and it found that tech giants have lost their luster for many employees.
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The Five Mistakes Startups Make When Building for Mobile
In 2009, Farhan Thawar joined mobile development firm Xtreme Labs as VP of Engineering. At the time, it handled accounts for some of the biggest brands in the world — a roster including the largest social networks and popular sports organizations. And they all had one thing in common...
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Google's Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant
Google is on a shopping spree, buying startup after startup to push its business into the future. But these companies don’t run web services or sell ads or build smartphone software or dabble in other things that Google is best known for. The web’s most powerful company is filling its shopping cart with artificial intelligence algorithms, robots, and smart gadgets for the home.
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The startup that won itself a Super Bowl ad
GoldieBlox, a company that makes toys to teach girls about engineering, wins an Intuit competition and gets a spot during the big game.
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Pinrose Tries Selling Perfume by Algorithm, No Charlize Therons Required
A pair of Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni—sound familiar?—have come up with a lower-cost, less-glitzy approach to selling perfume that they think is more in keeping with the lifestyles of modern women. Erika Shumate and Christine Luby launched their startup, Pinrose, this week with 10 scents that cost $50 each.
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