Daily Archives: September 28, 2011

Apple to stream iPhone event live for press at its Covent Garden store in London

September 28, 2011

Apple has announced to the staff at its Covent Garden retail store in London that the store will be closing early on Tuesday to prepare for a live streaming of the ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ keynote for the press, according to a report by MacRumors. The store usually closes at 9:30 PM but will pull...

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Real Journalism, VentureBeat Style

September 28, 2011
Real Journalism, VentureBeat Style

And that, by the way, is why anyone who cares about real journalism mistrusts TechCrunch—Dylan Tweney, VentureBeat TechCrunch has plenty of critics. But I don’t think I’ve ever read such a botched attempt at a takedown as a post published this evening on VentureBeat by Dylan Tweney titled, How TechCrunch’s back-room deals destroy its...

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Yieldex Raises $10 Million Series C Round From Hearst

September 28, 2011
Yieldex Raises $10 Million Series C Round From Hearst

See Also: GOP Says “No Threat” Of Government Shutdown; Democrats Not So Sure Billion-Dollar ZocDoc Raises Another $25 Million For Its $75 Million Series C Round The #1 Reason A Government Shutdown Is Just Plain Dumb Digital advertising and analytics company Yieldex has raised a $10 million Series C round led by Hearst and...

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How CloudFlare Aims to Save the Future of the Internet, With an Amazon-Style Technology Roll Out, for Free

September 28, 2011
How CloudFlare Aims to Save the Future of the Internet, With an Amazon-Style Technology Roll Out, for Free

What do you do with a shiny new, globally distributed network capable of serving up billions of web pages? CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince, a graduate of Trinity College, Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago law school, decided his company was in a great position to build a bridge between the IPv4 web,...

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Facebook makes it even easier to wish someone a Happy Birthday

September 28, 2011
Facebook makes it even easier to wish someone a Happy Birthday

Sometimes it’s the simple things in life that grab your attention and give you a smile. Facebook has always been my crutch for remembering the birthdays of my friends and family. On the right hand side of your news feed, you get the list of that days birthdays. You click on their name, go...

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(Amazon) Silk or a spider web?

September 28, 2011

Of all the announcements from Amazon today, the most audacious one is the one that involves Silk, a hybrid browser that essentially pre-fetches the web, caches it and then serves it up to Fire owners. I was pretty intrigued by it the moment I read about it. It reminded me of Skyfire. However, it...

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Prize-Winning Foursquare Hack Helps You Plan Your Next Trip

September 28, 2011
Prize-Winning Foursquare Hack Helps You Plan Your Next Trip

Last weekend, Foursquare held its second hackathon, a worldwide, weekend-long affair in which hundreds of developers tinkered away and built new location-based apps and tools on top of Foursquare’s API. There were about 100 hacks submitted for consideration and today Foursquare announced the winners. Taking the top prize is a handy little Web app...

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Prize-Winning Foursquare Hack Helps Your Plan Your Next Trip

September 28, 2011
Prize-Winning Foursquare Hack Helps Your Plan Your Next Trip

Last weekend, Foursquare held its second hackathon, a world-wide, weekend-long affair in which hundreds of developers tinkered away and built new location-based apps and tools on top of Foursquare’s API. There were about 100 hacks submitted for consideration and today Foursquare announced the winners. Taking the top prize is a handy little Web app...

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Tony Hsieh: Don’t Rule Out A Zappos Airline (AMZN)

September 28, 2011
Tony Hsieh: Don’t Rule Out A Zappos Airline (AMZN)

See Also: Amazon Reveals The Kindle Fire: A $199 Dagger Aimed Right At The Heart Of Tablet Market AMAZON’S HUGE DAY SHAKING UP TECH: Here’s Everything You Need To Know Check Out “Silk,” Amazon’s Killer Web Browser Zappos founder Tony Hsieh said that the company often gets email from highly satisfied customers asking him...

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Engine Yard Adds JRuby, Heroku Adds Python and Django

September 28, 2011
Engine Yard Adds JRuby, Heroku Adds Python and Django

There must be something in the air. Heroku and Engine Yard are beefing up their platforms today. Engine Yard put JRuby into general availability today after several months in testing and years of development. Not to be left out, Heroku expanded its service to add Python and Django as part of its “polyglot platform.”

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