Daily Archives: October 24, 2011

One of World’s Top UX Designers Leaves Google to Join Startup Quora

October 24, 2011
One of World’s Top UX Designers Leaves Google to Join Startup Quora

Elizabeth Windram Laraki has worked for more than 6 years as the lead designer first at Google Maps and then at YouTube but tonight announced on Twitter that she’s left Google and joined high-profile QA startup Quora. Her title is now Product Designer. Quora is led by a team of very early Facebook employees,...

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Introducing a thermostat Steve Jobs would love: Nest

October 24, 2011
Introducing a thermostat Steve Jobs would love: Nest

Can gorgeous design, learning algorithms and millions in venture capital funding make a simple home thermostat as coveted as the iPhone? If anyone can achieve such a lofty goal it’s Tony Fadell, the former chief architect at Apple, who led the development of the iPod and the first three versions of the iPhone, and...

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SpringSource links up with Neo Technology on NoSQL

October 24, 2011
SpringSource links up with Neo Technology on NoSQL

VMware CEO Paul Maritz has been banging the drum for a new era of application development tailored to a world of cloud computing, big data and multi-platform delivery, and NoSQL is often seen as an important part of that evolution. That end, the SpringSource division of VMware has been advancing its NoSQL prowess by...

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Local Marketplace And Minion-Finder Zaarly Raises $14.1 Million

October 24, 2011
Local Marketplace And Minion-Finder Zaarly Raises $14.1 Million

Ian Hunter, Bo Fishbacl and Eric Koester cofounded Zaarly at Startup Weekend LA. Image: Zaarly See Also: How The Craft Beer Movement Is Taking Over The US Steve Jobs Would Annoy Jony Ive By Taking Credit For His Design Work Citi: ‘The Most Interesting Thing You May Not Know About the Housing Market’ Zaarly,...

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China Mobile: Apple “promised” to give us the iPhone but we don’t know when

October 24, 2011

Apple has agreed in principle to a partnership that will see China Mobile offer the iPhone, although it is not yet clear when the world’s largest carrier will carry Apple’s flagship smartphone, or which version of the device it will be. China Mobile Chairman Wang Jianzhou revealed that dialogue with Apple has been positive...

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THE HOUSE THAT FARMVILLE BUILT: Mark Pincus’ House On Sale For $8.9 Million

October 24, 2011
THE HOUSE THAT FARMVILLE BUILT: Mark Pincus’ House On Sale For $8.9 Million

Image: Teed Haze Mark Pincus’ four-level home in the luxurious Presidio district in San Francisco can be yours today — for the low, low price of $8.9 million. A source who did not want to be named told Business Insider he visited the property and the real estate agent told him it was owned...

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New Factual Resolve API Will Help Clean Up, Complete Location Databases

October 24, 2011
New Factual Resolve API Will Help Clean Up, Complete Location Databases

Open data platform Factual.com is launching a new API for developers of location-based services called Resolve. The API is an entity resolution API that makes partial records complete, matches entities against one other and assists in the process of de-duping and normalizing datasets. What this means is that developers can simply tell Factual what...

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MyPad Shrugs Off Official Facebook Competitor, Now Has 2.5 Million Daily Active Users

October 24, 2011
MyPad Shrugs Off Official Facebook Competitor, Now Has 2.5 Million Daily Active Users

On October 10th, one of the longest running tech rumors in recent memory finally came to fruition: Facebook released its own, official iPad application. The app had been in high demand since the day the iPad first launched (Facebook’s iPhone app is, after all, among the platform’s most popular of all time). But there...

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Google Senior Media Liaison Karen Wickre leaves Google for Twitter

October 24, 2011
Google Senior Media Liaison Karen Wickre leaves Google for Twitter

Karen Wickre, the Senior Media Liaison at Google for the last nine years has left Google and joined Twitter. Our sources say Wickre held a very senior PR position at Google for a long time, and was the go between for project managers and the media. Many at Google enjoyed working with her immensely....

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Forrester Advice on Hadoop: Best Practices for Early Adopters

October 24, 2011
Forrester Advice on Hadoop: Best Practices for Early Adopters

Visit the CenturyLink resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. Hadoop seems to be on everyone’s minds this year. It’s certainly a hot topic for Forrester’s...

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