For most companies, a one-in-billion probability means they don’t really have to take it into account. But Google, which serves about 7 percent of the world’s overall web traffic, isn’t any ordinary company. At the Internal Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining on Monday, Google Research Director Peter Norvig shared some of the...
For most companies, a one-in-billion probability means they don’t really have to take it into account. But Google, which serves about 7 percent of the world’s overall web traffic, isn’t any ordinary company. At the Internal Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining on Monday, Google Research Director Peter Norvig shared some of the...
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After spending far too much time with far too little support from their owners at Condé Nast, Reddit is on a bit of a roll lately. They’ve gone on a handful of hiring sprees this year, moved into a bigger, better office… and now, they’ve made their first acquisition: RedditGifts. For the non-Redditors out...
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Ticketmaster just rolled out Facebook integration in its interactive seat map feature. If you sign into Facebook before you buy a ticket online, you’ll be able to see which of your Facebook friends are also going and where they’re sitting. A couple weeks ago, Facebook director Sean Ryan explained that e-commerce and media are...
Facebook is in the process of rolling out a sweeping series of changes to the way users can control their profiles and content-sharing on the massive social network. Among other things, the changes allow users to selectively share status updates or content with certain groups of friends, just as Google+ introduced the idea of...
Companies that have emerged from the Y Combinator accelerator program are some of the most buzzed-about startups in Silicon Valley, with truly standout products. Wired called it “a bootcamp for startups” and graduates include Airbnb and DropBox who are members of the $1 billion valuation club. Getting your startup selected to participate in the...
Samsung says that Apple didn’t come up with the idea for the iPad — similar ideas have been around in science fiction movies for years. Apple sued Samsung for patent and “trade dress” infringement back in April. As part of that suit, Apple said that the Galaxy Tab ripped off the look and feel...