The latest stable version of WordPress, 3.1, was first released on 23 February 2011. Now, less than 5 months later, the blogging software has been downloaded over 15 million times according to a tweet posted mere minutes ago (and the download counter). Joomla just recently announced that its software has been downloaded 23 million...
With its new SplitSecure technology, Structure 2011 LaunchPad finalist BeyondCore is trying to prove that companies processing sensitive data don’t have to be afraid of cloud computing. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company has actually been around since 2003, but SplitSecure represents its first foray into the cloud. At Structure 2011, BeyondCore Founder and CEO...
Image: Jaeson Parsons Jaeson Parsons made a lot of money on 9/11. His trading desk at Refco bet huge when no one else would. “We quoted the market more than 50 ticks wide,” Parsons said. “It was unheard of, but everyone was scared and no one was willing to put their jobs or their...
Image: Jaeson Parsons Jaeson Parsons made a lot of money on 9/11. His trading desk at Refco bet huge when no one else would. “We quoted the market more than 50 ticks wide,” Parsons said. “It was unheard of, but everyone was scared and no one was willing to put their jobs or their...
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Image: AP An amazing take by an anonymous user on Quora on why Apple products sometimes seem so superior. Because they are. Because they get them before anyone else. We’ll just quote it because it’s great as it is: When new component technologies (touchscreens, chips, LED displays) first come out, they are very expensive...
Does this thing look familiar to you? Granted, there are plenty of little differences, but at a first glance, what does this remind you of? If you said MacBook Pro, congratulations, we’re on the same wave length. The brushed metal finish, the keyboard, the black bezel around the screen… it all screams Apple. That’s...
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg gets a long profile this week by the New Yorker’s Ken Auletta. It’s a good read but there’s not much new in there. The points that are worth noting: A lot of people at Google really dislike her for poaching execs (she says she doesn’t, that Googlers come to her...
Took me a little bit to get it… At first, I thought it was saying brands could DM you without you following them. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/PGflMceCYY4/
Makes me sick to my stomach. To voice political opinions of our President is one thing.This is NOT funny, but rather wildly inappropriate. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/D9HKQL9eHMQ/
The Slide group within Google has been busy. Disco, the group messaging app, quietly launched back in March. Then last week, Pool Party, a group mobile photo service entered into private beta. And today the team is back again with Prizes, a service that apparently aims to link up people with a problem to...