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Feature Friday: Checking In Your Friend

Sometime in the past week, an awesome feature appeared in my Foursquare app. I was checking into our local farm stand at the beach and I saw this at the bottom of my checkin screen:Since I was with the...

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Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Have A Secret Plan For A Massive Database Of...

Major companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Twitter, are in secret discussions to create a system that could banish child abuse images from the web.The plan would be the first...

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4 Simple Ways To Protect Your PC From Snoops And Nosey Family Members

Could you please advise me of any privacy software that would most closely match Webroot's Window Washer — now discontinued, sadly — in its aims and effectiveness? If possible, is there something that...

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FINALLY! There Is Now 4G Mobile Coverage On The Summit Of Mount Everest

Mount Everest now has 4G coverage at 5,200 metres above sea level, thanks to Huawei and China Mobile.Climbers will now be able to live stream the view from Mount Everest after the technology companies...

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Apple's App Store Is Getting Cumbersomely Large

Five years ago, the iTunes App Store kicked off business with a few hundred apps sorted into around twenty different subject areas.  Today, our favorite app store has an organization problem. Every...

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PORN: The Hidden Engine That Drives Innovation In Tech

Even though Google Glass just banned porn, the adult industry still looks to adapt and drive new technology.Whether its interactive motion-controlled porn, sexual avatars, biofeedback or 3D video, the...

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Video Of The Week: Cliff Chenfeld on Media Reporter

My friend Cliff Chenfeld recently appeared on the Media Reporter TV show. Cliff has been in the entertainment business for over 25 years and he talks about the changes he has seen in the music...

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Dell Shares Slipping After Michael Dell And Silver Lake Refuse To Raise Their...

Dell shares slip on reports Michael Dell and Silver Lake won't increase offer for companyNEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Dell slid Friday on reports that founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners don't...

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Former Presidential Candidate Mohamed ElBaradei To Be Named Egypt's Interim...

CAIRO (AP) — Pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been named interim prime minister, an opposition spokesman said on Saturday evening.Khaled Dawoud of the National Salvation Front, the main...

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Pocket Wifis for the Global Traveler

We've got two girls traveling around the world this summer. One has a pocket wifi from Xcom Global (asia) and the other has a pocket wifi from Tep Wireless (europe).I've become a convert to the pocket...

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Why Iceland Should Abandon The Krona And Use Bitcoin As Its Currency Instead

The government of Iceland does not have the necessary skills to manage its own currency. It should ditch the Icelandic krona and adopt Bitcoin, a nascent virtual currency that so far looks like the...

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Fidelity Worldwide Investment Director Sees Signs Of Dotcom Crash Sequel, 15...

Tom Stevenson is an investment director at Fidelity Worldwide Investment. The views expressed are his own. He tweets at @tomstevenson63.If you wait around long enough even the most discredited...

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Billionaire Carlos Slim Invests $40 Million In App Developer Shazam

LONDON (Reuters) - Smartphone app developer Shazam has found an unlikely ally in the form of Carlos Slim, one of the world's richest men, who is investing $40 million to back the development of the...

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Startup Management

AVC regular William Mougayar is building an education oriented community for entrepreneurs called Startup Management. He soft launched it in the past week.The idea, as I understand it, is to aggregate...

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50 Million People Watch This 23-Year-Old Swede's Videos On YouTube, Making...

Rapper Psy's Gangnam Style video has now been watched more than 1.7bn times on YouTube, and his channel has more than 6m subscribers. But he's still not the king of Google's online video service.A 23...

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Self-Driving Car Startup Mobileye Just Raised $400 Million To Help It Put...

Mobileye announced the closing of a $400M financing round by firms BlackRock, Fidelity Management, Wellington Management, Sailing Capital and Enterprise Rent-A-Car. The round makes Mobileye the highest...

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All Of A Sudden, Startup Founders Have Gotten Brutally Honest About Their...

There’s something swirling in the air around startups and founders. It’s refreshing, cold hard, honesty.Maybe it took a Series A crunch or simply more ways for the truth to be unleashed. Perhaps it was...

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Only Once - The Book

My friend and USV portfolio CEO Matt Blumberg has a popular blog called Only Once on which he posts about the challenges and joys of being a CEO (for the first time, thus the name). Matt should be...

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How to Know When to Sell vs. When to Market to Customers

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Apple And Amazon End Their Lawsuit Over Using The Term 'App Store' (AAPL, AMZN)

(Reuters) - Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc have ended their lawsuit over who has the right to use the "app store" name, clearing the way for both companies to use it.U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton...

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