Daily Archives: January 29, 2013

Why Insurers Are Afraid Of Social Media Companies

January 29, 2013
Why Insurers Are Afraid Of Social Media Companies

John Moccia John Moccia is a partner at Rollins Insurance Recent Posts How to GET PAID by your EO policy How Much Should Startups Expect to Pay for Health Insurance? When Should Startups Consider DO Liability Coverage? If you are running a social media company —large or small — and have had to buy...

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SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE VALLEY: Ellen Pao, Accuser, Stands Up For Keith Rabois, Accused

January 29, 2013
SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE VALLEY: Ellen Pao, Accuser, Stands Up For Keith Rabois, Accused

KPCB Ellen Pao, former Kleiner Perkins partner See Also After Disagreements With Jack Dorsey, Square COO Keith Rabois Is Out Sex Scandal Forces Square COO’s Resignation Meet All The Players In The Kleiner Sex Scandal That’s Rocking Silicon Valley On Twitter, Ellen Pao is defending Keith Rabois. Pao is the venture capitalist who accused...

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John Chambers Officially Gives Up His Dream To Turn Cisco Into A Consumer Brand (CSCO)

January 29, 2013
John Chambers Officially Gives Up His Dream To Turn Cisco Into A Consumer Brand (CSCO)

Getty Images/Ethan Miller Cisco CEO John Chambers See Also What I Learned From John Chambers And Marc Benioff Cisco Buys 4-Year-Old Israeli Startup Intucell For Half A Billion Dollars Bring Your Own Device Policies Are Changing The Way We Work Across The Globe As expected, Cisco sold its home wireless router business, Linksys, to...

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Now you can share any Vine video to Tumblr and others blog with Vineit

January 29, 2013
Now you can share any Vine video to Tumblr and others blog with Vineit

Twitter launched Vine last week and the short-video service has proven to be popular among its users (despite plenty of early bugs), but sharing beyond Twitter is currently limited. Until now, that is. Dwolla Developer Evangelist Michael Schonfeld — @baconseason — has a built a service that shares the 6-second videos to Tumblr and any other...

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Microsoft’s Xbox Live service is down for many due to sign-in issue

January 29, 2013

Microsoft has posted a service alert to notify users of an issue it is having with processing sign-ins for Xbox Live . The company says the following platforms are affected: Games for Windows LIVE, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox 360 Console, Xbox.com, Zune PC Client. The alert also includes the following note: “It looks like you’ve been disconnected...

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Judge finds Samsung patent infringement against Apple wasn’t willful, rules out triple damages

January 29, 2013

In the landmark case of Apple v. Samsung, Judge Lucy Koh has overturned the jury’s ruling that Samsung willfully infringed on Apple’s patents, thereby eliminating a possible tripling in damage awards, FOSS Patents reports. Koh issued several orders for the case late Tuesday. Though the judge did strike the willful infringement finding, she largely...

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Peak Mac: The Dawn Of The Real PC Market

January 29, 2013
Peak Mac: The Dawn Of The Real PC Market

I don’t want to give up my desktop computer, but it seems like many people do. Dan Frommer at SplatF lays it all out: The PC industry is in decline. The Mac, which was growing while the rest of PCs were shrinking, is now shrinking, too. But if you add in the iPad and...

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Nerd Alert: Turn Your Browser Into A Notepad

January 29, 2013
Nerd Alert: Turn Your Browser Into A Notepad

Okay, forgive me, but I have to nerd out on you for a second. I have just learned that you can turn any modern browser window into a text notepad, and you can save the contents. It even works on mobile browsers. Type this into your browser’s location bar: data:text/html, html contenteditable Hit enter,...

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Why Do Users Trust Mozilla More Than Google On Privacy?

January 29, 2013
Why Do Users Trust Mozilla More Than Google On Privacy?

The privacy-obsessed don’t seem to think much of Google. A survey of consumer confidence found Mozilla to be the most trustworthy pure Internet company when it comes to user privacy, the organization eagerly announced. Out of companies generally, Mozilla broke into the top 20 in the study, which was conducted by the Ponemon Institute....

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You might also like … to know how online recommendations work

January 29, 2013
You might also like … to know how online recommendations work

To the untrained eye, all the suggestions we’re inundated with online might seem essentially the same. After all, there’s no big difference between “you might like,” “your friends liked” and “other people who bought this also bought,” right? Actually, there is, and the right approach to making recommendations can make or break a web...

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