Daily Archives: June 28, 2011

Square Raises $100 Million Round At $1 Billion Valuation, Led By Kleiner Perkins

June 28, 2011
Square Raises $100 Million Round At $1 Billion Valuation, Led By Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker and John Doerr Image: Twitpic/Steve Case See Also: HOLY MOLEY: This iPhone App Scans Skin For Melanoma The Right Way To Drop Out Of School: Get Someone To Pay You $1,000,000 First Yahoo Is About To Spin Off A Billion Dollar Business Square, the mobile payments company led by Twitter...

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Accel, Khosla, and Andreessen Horowitz Pour Another $30 Million Into Social Browser RockMelt

June 28, 2011
Accel, Khosla, and Andreessen Horowitz Pour Another $30 Million Into Social Browser RockMelt

Is there a future for social browser startup RockMelt? Despite attracting only a few hundred thousand active users since its much-hyped launch, the company filled with ex-Netscape rockstars and backed by former Netscape founder Marc Andreessen just managed to raise another $30 million in a B round led by Accel Partners and Khosla Ventures,...

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How Symantec Cracked Stuxnet

June 28, 2011
How Symantec Cracked Stuxnet

Stuxnet was a very sophisticated piece of software, some 10,000 lines of code that took man-years to develop. Symantec started seeing versions of the malware up to a year before the actual attack last June, they just had no idea what they were looking at until things started to happen at the nuclear facility....

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Wow, Google+ Looks EXACTLY Like Facebook (GOOG)

June 28, 2011
Wow, Google+ Looks EXACTLY Like Facebook (GOOG)

Google was kind enough to send SAI some invitations for its new social networking service Google+, and after a few hiccups we’ve been able to get on the service. First impression: it’s Facebook. With video chat. Only it doesn’t have any people on it yet, so it’s not as useful. There are some subtle...

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Wondering why Google+ actually looks good? Thank Andy Hertzfeld.

June 28, 2011

Google is not known for great design. That’s not to say that minimalist design cannot be great design. There are many extraordinary cases of excellent minimalist design. And I’m not saying that Google’s user experience is bad: by keeping simple, the most basic features, at least, are easy to grasp — just don’t go...

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The Jedi Trainer’s Guide To Employee Management [Infographic]

June 28, 2011
The Jedi Trainer’s Guide To Employee Management [Infographic]

If your startup is getting ready to expand but you have no idea how to handle your newly hired underlings, take it from those who have navigated galactic asteroid fields, staged rebellions against empires and mastered the art of the Jedi Mind Trick. You wouldn’t want to hear instructions from a Wookie, would you?...

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40 gigabits per second over 1300km? Too easy in Australia.

June 28, 2011

Australia’s Academic Research Network and Cisco have achieved data transfer speeds of 40 gigabits per second between three sites over 1300km. The three sites are CSIRO astronomy locations in Parkes, Narrabri and Marsfield, and the trial hopes to convince those determining the location of the Square Kilometre Array that Australia has the infrastructure required to handle...

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Lawyers Flee As Paul Ceglia’s Facebook Ownership Lawsuit Implodes

June 28, 2011
Lawyers Flee As Paul Ceglia’s Facebook Ownership Lawsuit Implodes

Toldja! See Also: Guy Who Says He Owns Facebook Finally Explains Why He Waited 7 Years To Say So The Guy Who Says He Owns 50% Of Facebook Just Filed A Boatload Of New Evidence — And It’s Breathtaking OKAY, WE’RE CONVINCED: The Guy Who Says He Owns 50% Of Facebook Is A Fraud...

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A DAY IN THE LIFE: ‘Guest Of A Guest’ Founder Rachelle Hruska

June 28, 2011
A DAY IN THE LIFE: ‘Guest Of A Guest’ Founder Rachelle Hruska

In 2005, Rachelle Hruska moved to New York for six months. Six years later, she’s still here, heading up Guest of a Guest, the site she founded along with Cameron Winklevoss. The venture, which has expanded to Los Angeles and Hamptons, chronicles the young, rich, and beautiful in Gotham and beyond. It has become...

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Office 365 vs. Google Apps vs. Zoho

June 28, 2011
Office 365 vs. Google Apps vs. Zoho

Pricing Google Apps: Google Apps for Business costs either $5 a month per user or $50 a year per user. It’s free for “accredited not-for-profit 501(c)(3) entities with If you need fewer than 10 users you can use Google Apps for free. You can also use Google Docs, without Google Apps, for free. Office...

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