Friday, November 30, 2012

iCloud Newz, we found some people you may know on Twitter

     
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Some people you may know on Twitter
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Andy Bryant @_AndyBryant
I'm writing books, tweet English grammar, blog @ http://t.co/4r3L79WT,...
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「国家百年の計」。経済活性化なくして福祉の継続は困難。日本の再生には、首相公選、独立州制度、PPP、ベーシックインカム、イスラム金融、開発キャプ...
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Following: 237463 · Followers: 231719
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Top Stories of the Day // November 30, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 30, 2012

R.I.P. Frothy Times, A Return To Normalcy

Whatever it is, it is palpable. A sort of buzz in the Valley that all is not well, and a slight nervousness among entrepreneurs, investors and startup employees... read more

High Profile UK VC Stefan Glaenzer Faces Jail After Sexual Assault Conviction

The London tech startup scene has been rocked today by revelations that a major investor is facing jail after being convicted of sexually harassing women on the... read more

Peter Thiel And Existing Investors Put Another $49 Million In Accounting Software Company Xero

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. It is... read more

Google Play Narrowing The Gap On iOS For Mobile Revenue, But iOS Still Brings In 4X The Money

According to a new report from mobile app analytics firm App Annie, Google's Play software store is gaining on rival Apple's iOS app marketplace. The revenue... read more

The Netflix For Designer Clothes, Rent The Runway Raises $20M From Vogue-Publisher Condé Nast And Kleiner Perkins

Rent The Runway, a Netflix for designer clothes, accessories and jewelry, has raised $20 million in funding led by Condé Nast Publications, with all... read more

Basho's Amazon S3 Compatibility Gets Potent Boost With Replication Capabilities For Riak Cloud Storage

Basho Technologies Riak Cloud Storage (Riak CS) now can be replicated across multiple data centers. The new capability, combined with its existing AWS S3... read more

Two Reasons For RIM To Be Cheerful: U.K., Spanish Teens Still Love BlackBerrys (Well, They're Cheaper Than iPhones)

BlackBerrys are still wildly popular with a certain cash-strapped sub-set of mobile users in parts of Europe: namely teenagers. A wide-ranging research report... read more

Video: How Reddit Was Born

There are only a few founders that I really like and Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian are two of them. These lads, with their bright-eyed charm and genuinely... read more

Apple Vets Carriers For 4G Performance Before Allowing iPhone 5 To Be Sold As An LTE Device

Apple wants to ensure that customer experience with its iPhone 5 lives up to what the company is promising, and it will take strong measures to do so, including... read more

Plyfe Brings Its Brand-Promoting Games To Mobile, Raises $750K

Plyfe, a startup that allows brands to promote themselves through games and rewards, is moving onto mobile today — Plyfe games can now be played on the... read more

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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // November 29, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 29, 2012

Microsoft Trolls The Trolls In Latest IE10 Ad

The folks at Microsoft have just released a clever commercial for Internet Explorer 10, the latest version of the company's once dominant web browser which has... read more

Twitter's Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: 'This Is Contracts 101'

When the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter... read more

Basis Takes On Jawbone, Nike, Finally Launches Its Impressive $199 Health Tracking Band

For Quantified Self devotees, data hounds and fitness enthusiasts, it's a good time to be alive. Recent improvements in sensor technology, battery life and... read more

NPD: U.S. Windows Device Sales Down 21% On Last Year; Windows 8 Tablet Sales "Almost Non-Existent"

Microsoft earlier this week made a point of noting that there have been 40 million downloads of Windows 8 since it launched a month ago, putting it ahead of... read more

WordPress.com Launches Restaurant Vertical As It Pushes Platform Well Beyond Basic Blogging

Restaurants are kind of notorious for having painful web experiences -- either with websites that are horribly basic and out of date, or needlessly souped up... read more

The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn't The Problem At Groupon

In February of this year, Groupon acquired Adku, an e-commerce data targeting startup staffed with a whip-smart team that included several relatively prominent... read more

Fantastical Lands On iPhone With A Calendar App Tailor-Made For Mobile Schedule Management

The iPhone's Calendar app is pretty good overall, and that's something that even Fantastical creator and Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons admitted to in an... read more

Millennial: Apple Still Leads Samsung In Overall Impressions, But Android Dominates iOS With 52% Share

Leading mobile ad network Millennial Media today released ist Q3 Mobile Mix report, and it would appear that Apple has kept its lead as top manufacturer on the... read more

Khan Academy Brings Its 3,500+ Educational Videos To The iPhone

Whether or not one believes Khan Academy is helping to reinvent education, it's hard to dispute the fact that Khan (and now his team) are an educational... read more

Acquia Lands $30 Million Series E To Scale Out Its Enterprise Drupal Development Platform

Acquia, the company that makes a suite of software tools for the open source web development and content management system Drupal, has secured $30 million in a... read more

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // November 28, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 28, 2012

Google's Romanian Domain Gets Defaced By Algerian Hacker MCA-CRB. Google Says: "We Were Not Hacked"

Looks like Pakistan is not the only place where major internet companies' domain names can get hacked hijacked. This morning, google.ro, was taken over, with... read more

#StuffMicrosoftSays: "Don't Get Scroogled," Launches Holiday Bing Campaign

Microsoft just launched a full-on offensive campaign for holiday shoppers called "Scroogled." Yes, it's what you think it is, it's an attempt to tell people not... read more

iPad And Android Tablet Market Share Margin Narrows Much Faster Than Originally Predicted

Apple continued to win out in terms of tablet market share this past quarter, according to the latest figures from ABI Research, with a 55 percent share of all... read more

A Few Math Questions That US College Students Can't Answer

If you can do basic subtraction, you might just be more math-savvy than a lot U.S. college students. A new research paper looks at the mathematical prowess of... read more

Gorgeous Photos, In Your Pocket: 500px Arrives On iPhone

Hot on the heels of acquiring the makers of a popular iPhone app for browsing the photos on its service, the Toronto-based photo-sharing startup 500px is... read more

Google Street View Visits An Arctic Town And Now Provides A Look At 90 Ski Resorts Worldwide

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Kids Grow Up So Fast, But Spruceling Makes Dressing Them Much Easier

If you have kids, you know this situation all too well. You buy your toddler an adorable sweater khaki combo that they grow out of almost immediately, and it's... read more

Everything.me, The Search App That Bridges The Native And HTML5 Divide, Gets $25M From Telefonica, Mozilla And Singtel

Native apps are stealing the show when it comes to usage and functionality on mobile devices these days, but a lot of companies continue to hold out hope that... read more

View Presentations On The iPhone And Edit On The iPad With New Prezi Apps

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Take An Animated GIF Tour Of An Angry Birds Playground

I was up in the Arctic Circle this past weekend, attempting to eat reindeer burgers, swim in non-existent ice holes and see the Northern Lights when we checked... read more

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