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Google And Apple Are Ruining Developers' Summer Vacations
Mobile developers had better catch their collective breath while they can. Following the Apple and Google developer conferences, app creators have a bevy of new tools to learn and exploit. If you make...
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This Creepy Art Project Dies A Little Every Time It's 'Liked' On Facebook
Jean Baudrillard, the French philosopher whose ideas inspired The Matrix, didn't live long enough to sign up for a Facebook account.It's a shame. As somebody who wrote about reality and simulations, he...
View ArticleBeing Upfront
No feature or fun friday today. I wanted to talk a bit about a feat that my friend Mark Suster has pulled off. He has completely repositioned and rebranded a 17 year old venture capital firm. And I...
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Former Stasi Officer: The NSA Domestic Surveillance Program Would Have Been...
The National Security Agency's domestic surveillance capabilities would have been "a dream come true" for East Germany, a former lieutenant colonel in the defunct communist country's secret police told...
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Citi Bike Is My New iPhone
New York’s new bike-sharing system, now a month old, is still working out the kinks. It’s sometimes impossible to find a bike, and sometimes impossible to return one. Kiosks, after an embarrassingly...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: Jerry Colonna on ThisWeekIn
Back in 1996, at the very start of Flatiron Partners, Jerry Colonna, who started Flatiron with me, introduced me to Jason Calacanis. We hired Jason to do some due diligence for us on a potential...
View ArticleHuman rights begin in small places
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual...
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Apple Wants To Destroy A Popular Fountain In San Francisco To Build A New...
SF wants fountain, historic style for proposed Union Square Apple storeSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco planners want to keep a beloved city fountain in Union Square after plans submitted last month...
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New York City's Startup Scene Is Rapidly Becoming The Hub For Innovation And...
Foursquare, Mashable, and 10gen.What do a major social network, happening news website, and a rising database company have in common? They are all ‘Made in New York.’Just a couple of days ago,...
View ArticleThe One Key Person That Will Help You Improve Sales
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GOOGLE MAPS THE WORLD: An In-Depth Look At Google's Massive Global Mapping...
Since 2005, Google has mapped 28 million miles of road in 194 countries. And it won't rest until the whole planet is on its servers. Tom Chivers reports on the mammoth operation and asks: is it ruining...
View ArticleSocial Networks That Bring People To AVC
According to Google Analytics, these are the top social networks that bring people to AVCI've been tracking this for quite a while and not much has really changed over the years except that Disqus and...
View ArticleTwitter's CEO Had An Awkward Interview Moment When Asked About Government Spying
Katie Couric's interview with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is an excellent example of how charm and charisma can help a journalist to press a public figure to answer questions he'd rather not face. The...
View ArticleBeing Upfront
No feature or fun friday today. I wanted to talk a bit about a feat that my friend Mark Suster has pulled off. He has completely repositioned and rebranded a 17 year old venture capital firm. And I...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: Jerry Colonna on ThisWeekIn
Back in 1996, at the very start of Flatiron Partners, Jerry Colonna, who started Flatiron with me, introduced me to Jason Calacanis. We hired Jason to do some due diligence for us on a potential...
View ArticleSocial Networks That Bring People To AVC
According to Google Analytics, these are the top social networks that bring people to AVCI've been tracking this for quite a while and not much has really changed over the years except that Disqus and...
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Nokia Buys A Future For $2.21 Billion
Finland's Nokia says it will buy out Siemens' 50% stake to take complete ownership of Nokia Siemens Networks, the joint venture which sells telecommunications equipment to mobile phone carriers in a...
View ArticleFrom The MBA Mondays Archive
In the comments to Valuation vs Ownership, Mike Nolan said:Just today I talked with an entrepreneur developing a SAAS in an educational space. His questioned focused on how to set up his first LLC and...
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Android Is Utterly Dominant In Europe, With 70% Of The Market Versus Apple's...
Android's 70.4 per cent share of the European market is far higher than than Apple iOS' 17.8 per cent share and the 6.8 per cent share for Windows, according to the latest OS barometer figures from...
View ArticleHanding Over Your Company To Someone Else To Manage
Yesterday Zynga announced that Mark Pincus is handing over the CEO job to Don Mattrick. This is not a post about why this will be awesome for Zynga's business and its stock because I don't know Don...
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