Daily Archives: June 30, 2011

Huge: Twitter now handles 200 Million tweets a day, enough to write a 10 million-page book

June 30, 2011
Huge: Twitter now handles 200 Million tweets a day, enough to write a 10 million-page book

Twitter has made an announcement on its official blog that users are now sending 200 million Tweets every day. This represents phenomenal growth for the network as Twitter says that users sent two million Tweets just 2 and a half years ago and one year ago were only at 65 million per day. Twitter...

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Google Takeout, An Easier Way To Take Your Data With You

June 30, 2011
Google Takeout, An Easier Way To Take Your Data With You

Lost in all the buzz around Google+ is an important new feature rolled out alongside it that makes it way easier to take all your data out of Google. It is called, appropriately enough, Google Takeout. It’s got it’s own separate site and is also part of settings within Google+. In settings, you click...

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6 wickedly creative job applications for the digital age

June 30, 2011
6 wickedly creative job applications for the digital age

As the job market becomes increasingly competitive, there are ever more random lengths people will go to in order to secure a job or even get noticed by potential employers. A standard CV won’t really cut it these days, particularly if you want to get into the digital or media industry, where you have...

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Amazon Drops 10,000 California Affiliates Amid Sales Tax Requirement

June 30, 2011
Amazon Drops 10,000 California Affiliates Amid Sales Tax Requirement

See Also: Connecticut Governor Plans To Fire 5,500 State Employees As Unions Reject Compromise Minnesota Is Going To Shut Down, And Everything Else You Need To Know About State Budgets Minnesota Leaders Meet, Fail To Reach Agreement To Avoid Shutdown Online retailer Amazon is leaving thousands of California-based online retailers in the lurch after...

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Microsoft kills energy tool Hohm, too

June 30, 2011
Microsoft kills energy tool Hohm, too

In the wake of Google pulling the plug on its energy tool PowerMeter, Microsoft says it has now killed its energy service, Hohm, too. Microsoft writes on its blog that it will discontinue its Hohm service starting on May 31, 2012. Microsoft writes: ue to the slow overall market adoption of the service, we...

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Former OpenTable CEO Jeff Jordan has joined VC firm Andreessen-Horowitz as its fifth general partner. The hire was r…

June 30, 2011
Former OpenTable CEO Jeff Jordan has joined VC firm Andreessen-Horowitz as its fifth general partner. The hire was r…

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This Is The iPhone 4′s Biggest Threat Yet

June 30, 2011
This Is The iPhone 4′s Biggest Threat Yet

Image: Steve Kovach, Business Insider Steve Kovach See Also: WATCH OUT: These 26 Android Apps Will Steal Your Phone’s Information The Top 10 Android Phones You Can Buy This Month Android Or iPhone? Here’s What The Big Names In Tech Use There’s still no release date. There’s still no pricing announcement. There isn’t even...

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Microsoft tags along behind Google, ends its energy-tracking service

June 30, 2011

It seems that Microsoft is willing to keep up certain projects even in the face of tepid demand so long as Google has a competing product in the market. But once Google yanks the plug on a feature that never had a future, Microsoft feels comfortable following suit. Today, the company ended its Microsoft Hohm...

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Andreessen-Horowitz Adds Jeff Jordan As General Partner, Leads $5M+ LikeALittle Series A

June 30, 2011
Andreessen-Horowitz Adds Jeff Jordan As General Partner, Leads $5M+ LikeALittle Series A

Andreessen-Horowitz, the prestigious VC firm started by Silicon Valley veterans Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, has just announced that it’s added its fifth general partner: Jeff Jordan, the former CEO of OpenTable and former executive at PayPal and eBay. In conjunction with the news, A-H is also announcing Jordan’s first investment: a Series A...

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Free Data Transfers for AWS Starts Friday

June 30, 2011
Free Data Transfers for AWS Starts Friday

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Amazon announced that effective this Friday, they will no longer charge for data...

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