Daily Archives: September 5, 2012

Your LinkedIn App Just Got A Whole Lot More Useful (LNKD)

September 5, 2012
Your LinkedIn App Just Got A Whole Lot More Useful (LNKD)

LinkedIn See Also The APP 100: The World’s Greatest Apps REPORT: Amazon May Announce A New Smartphone At Its Kindle Event Tomorrow Nokia Brought The Thunder With Its New Phone, Too Bad It’s Still Running Microsoft’s Software LinkedIn launched an update for its iPhone, iPad, and Android apps tonight that adds the same new...

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Android Jelly Bean adoption hits 1.2%, up 50% during August, Ice Cream Sandwich at 21%

September 5, 2012
Android Jelly Bean adoption hits 1.2%, up 50% during August, Ice Cream Sandwich at 21%

New data from Google’s developer website shows that the number of devices running Android 4.1 (its 2-month-old Jelly Bean system) rose by 50 percent over the last month to hit 1.2 percent, while installations of Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) rose by close to 25 percent to reach 20.9 percent overall. The figures, which were collected...

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Shares Of Sony Just Hit A 32-Year Low

September 5, 2012
Shares Of Sony Just Hit A 32-Year Low

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Nightmarish Hardware Failure At Recurly Erases Subscription Billing Info Of Some Clients’ Customers

September 5, 2012
Nightmarish Hardware Failure At Recurly Erases Subscription Billing Info Of Some Clients’ Customers

Recurly had some very bad news for its clients this morning but at least initial fixes are now on the way. A cascading hardware failure erased some end customer recurring billing info, preventing them from processing payments and essentially requiring them to ask customers to re-sign up for their subscriptions. Considering people often forget about the...

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Former Odeo architect sells Uruguay dev shop to “Lean Startup” firm

September 5, 2012

Evan Henshaw-Plath is one of those entrepreneurs who’s surprisingly under the radar in comparison to the integral role he’s played in the development of some key web tools — he was the first employee and lead architect of Odeo, which later became Twitter, and was the architect of Yahoo Brickhouse’s Fire Eagle location platform....

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REPORT: Amazon May Announce A New Smartphone At Its Kindle Event Tomorrow (AMZN)

September 5, 2012
REPORT: Amazon May Announce A New Smartphone At Its Kindle Event Tomorrow (AMZN)

AP Images Jeff Bezos unveiling the Kindle Fire. Amazon is definitely working on a smartphone, and it could be announced as early as tomorrow at the company’s Kindle event in Los Angeles, reports Nilay Patel of The Verge. An Amazon representative would not comment on the report. Amazon’s phone is said to run an...

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Big data and DNA: What business can learn from junk genes

September 5, 2012
Big data and DNA: What business can learn from junk genes

The science world was rocked Wednesday by the discovery that the 80 percent of the human gene that scientists throught was “junk” actually contains genetic regulators that can lead to diseases and certain genetic traits. It’s the scientific equivalent of discovering that ugly old dresser is actually a Louis XIV original, except that in...

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Windows 8′s ‘browser ballot’ screen making its way into the market via update KB976002

September 5, 2012
Windows 8′s ‘browser ballot’ screen making its way into the market via update KB976002

The browser ballot screen is back. Update ‘KB976002′ for Windows 8 brings the option to the operating system. As you recall, due to a legal scuffle with the European Union, Microsoft, in certain markets, provides new users of Windows with an option to select the browser of their choice. NeoWin, a publication that focuses on...

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Tumblr Runs Into “Networking Issue” That Affects Subset Of Custom Domain Blogs (UPDATED)

September 5, 2012
Tumblr Runs Into “Networking Issue” That Affects Subset Of Custom Domain Blogs (UPDATED)

If you use Tumblr to host a blog with a custom domain name, you might notice that it’s not functioning properly. That’s apparently the case for companies like Airtime, Pinterest and Path, as I’ve come to find. Basically, blogs that are blog.whatever.com. I reached out to Tumblr and received the following response: There’s a...

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How Marissa Mayer Is Re-Shaping Yahoo

September 5, 2012

Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer has already made some big changes at the company since taking charge almost two months ago. But, she has a lot more to do if she really wants to succeed. Watch our video explainer to see where Mayer and Yahoo are at and where they need to be: object...

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