Daily Archives: July 31, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg’s Brother-In-Law Works At The Company Google Just Acquired, Too (GOOG, FB)

July 31, 2012
Mark Zuckerberg’s Brother-In-Law Works At The Company Google Just Acquired, Too (GOOG, FB)

Harry Schmidt (@goldibex) See Also Mark Zuckerberg’s Sister Arielle Now Works For Google Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s Sister Sing About A Facebook IPO … IN 2007 MA GOSSIP: Facebook Wants To Buy This Woman’s Company, Wildfire, For ~$250 Million Meet Harry Schmidt. He works as a product strategist at Wildfire, the social-marketing startup that Google...

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Rackspace CEO: ‘We’re playing a different game’ than Amazon

July 31, 2012
Rackspace CEO: ‘We’re playing a different game’ than Amazon

For Rackspace, there’s no turning back from OpenStack now. As of Wednesday, all new customer workloads will deploy on the company’s open source cloud computing platform, leaving the company’s legacy platform for existing customers that want to take their time transitioning to the new cloud. Now, the competition to dethrone cloud king Amazon Web...

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Samsung’s legal team in hot water for publicly releasing inadmissible evidence from Apple patent trial

July 31, 2012
Samsung’s legal team in hot water for publicly releasing inadmissible evidence from Apple patent trial

In an interesting turn of events in the Apple/Samsung patent trial, Samsung’s legal team is in some hot water this evening with Southern District Court Judge Lucy Koh. It’s all over the ‘Sony-style’ design mockups that Samsung has been harping on for the past week or so. See, there were some mockups created by...

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New Darknet Wants To Match-Up Cypherpunks In Crypto Utopia

July 31, 2012
New Darknet Wants To Match-Up Cypherpunks In Crypto Utopia

Earlier this year French entrepreneur Ramine Darabiha called for a cypherpunk revival. Looks like he might be getting his wish. Cryptosphere is a new darknet now under development. A darknet is a private and/or anonymous network, sometimes using the public internet for connectivity. Silk Road, a marketplace for illegal drugs, is probably the most...

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The Star Of Zynga’s Mobile Guy, David Ko, Is On The Rise (ZNGA)

July 31, 2012
The Star Of Zynga’s Mobile Guy, David Ko, Is On The Rise (ZNGA)

Zynga Zynga’s chief mobile officer, David Ko See Also Zynga Just Bought Draw Something Developer OMGPOP The Mobile Gold Rush Is Not Even Close To Peaking Zynga Hires Ex-Yahoo David Ko To Run Mobile Division Zynga has shaken up its management after a disastrous quarter, and its chief mobile officer, David Ko, is a...

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First Look: Simple Reimagines Banking

July 31, 2012
First Look: Simple Reimagines Banking

You and I probably don’t see eye to eye on everything. You may not agree with my taste in music, or my politics, or my positions on the Oxford comma and tucking in of collared shirts (pro, and only when worn with a tie). But regardless of your race, creed, religion, or stance on...

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Dropbox details security breach, says two-step authentication and other security boosts on the way

July 31, 2012

In a post on its blog, Dropbox has detailed a recent security breach that resulted in a ‘small number’ of accounts being logged into in an unauthorized manner. The breach was caused by passwords stolen from ‘other websites’, says Dropbox’s Aditya Agarwal. One of the accounts accessed was an employee’s, which contained a document...

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A Twitter Cofounder Wants To Tear Down A Century-Old House And Build A New One

July 31, 2012
A Twitter Cofounder Wants To Tear Down A Century-Old House And Build A New One

SocketSite The interior of a 1911 Louis Christian Mullgardt home purchased by Twitter cofounder Ev Williams. See Also We Hear Twitter Cofounder Jack Dorsey Now Lives In A $10 Million House Mark Zuckerberg Is So Rich, He Lives In His $6 Million House For Free Larry Ellison’s Daughter Is Selling Her Modern Los Angeles...

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Dropbox Reports User Accounts Were Hijacked, Adds New Security Features

July 31, 2012
Dropbox Reports User Accounts Were Hijacked, Adds New Security Features

Several weeks ago, reports started to trickle out that a number of Dropbox users were under attack from spam. Since then, Dropbox has been investigating those attacks (with some help from a third-party) and today gave the first update on the progress, saying that some accounts were indeed accessed by hackers, but that it...

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Here’s A Secret Trick From LinkedIn For Landing A Great New Job (LNKD)

July 31, 2012
Here’s A Secret Trick From LinkedIn For Landing A Great New Job (LNKD)

Nicolewilliams.com Nicole Williams, career advice author and LinkedIn’s Connection Director See Also You Can Hire Someone To Do Charity Work For You Through This Startup My Proven Question For Getting The Job Best-selling author Nicole Williams, LinkedIn’s Connection Director, has a great tip on how to land your next job. Call it “strategic volunteering.”...

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