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Judge Frees A 21-Year-Old Pedophile And Lets Him Stay On Facebook
A pedophile who was allowed to remain on Facebook after using it to groom his victims has been freed again without being banned from the site, despite repeating the offense. Callum Evans, 21, posed as...
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9 Things I Would Never Buy A College Student Today
College is expensive. Beyond tuition, chances are your child will also have to buy books, new clothes, kegs of beer, and even some housewares to furnish a dorm room or apartment.With all this spending...
View ArticleBack In Ljubljana
Back in 2008, we invested in a small team out of SeedCamp called Zemanta. They were located in Ljubljana Slovenia but I met them in London. The following summer I visited the company in its hometown...
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After One Year, Marissa Mayer Appears To Be Turning Things Around At Yahoo...
Yahoo's hiring of Marissa Mayer, Alibaba investment paying off for long-suffering companySAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Not much had been going right for Yahoo until it lured Marissa Mayer away from Google to...
View ArticleHow to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social
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View ArticleCapital Market Climate Change
Hope that you feel this Feel this way forever You can plan a pretty picnic But you can’t predict the weather.—Outkast, Ms. JacksonIf you run a startup and are currently raising money, you probably...
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Cincinnati Has Become An Unexpected Hub Of Tech Startups
To judge from media coverage, one might think of the U.S. tech industry as a bi-coastal phenomenon. But between Silicon Valley and New York City's Silicon Alley lie 3,000 miles of countryside dotted...
View ArticleWhy You Need to Ring the Freaking Cash Register
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View ArticleMisunderstanding Twitter
I am writing this on my phone in a Hailo cab in London so forgive the typos and lack of links. I will clean this up later.On the flight over from Brussels I read the International Herald Tribune. In...
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Google Glass Could Have Been Activated By Saying 'Pew Pew Pew'
Early adopters of Google Glass get a palpable thrill out of saying "OK Glass" before speaking commands to Google's voice-activated augmented eyewear.But how much more thrilled would they be if the...
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Yahoo Trims 2013 Sales Outlook As CEO Marissa Mayer's Effort Falters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc trimmed its outlook for 2013 revenue after revealing a sharp 12 percent slide in ad prices in the second quarter, signs that CEO Marissa Mayer's attempts to revive...
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I Tried Android, But I Had To Go Back To The iPhone Because Most Android...
Six years ago, Google launched an unconventional effort to gain a toehold in the growing smartphone business. Rather than make its own phones, the way Apple was beginning to do, the search company...
View ArticleTransparency Please
[crossposted from USV.com] Today, we at USV are proud to be one of the many signers from the tech industry on a letter urging the US government to allow internet and telecom companies to freely...
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Marissa Mayer Has Done Everything Right (So Far) (YHOO)
Most corporate earnings conference calls are dry, staid affairs, the sort of thing you pay half a mind to while coming up with snarky quips on Twitter. Yahoo’s second-quarter earnings call, which...
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The Dell Buyout Shareholder Vote Has Been Postponed
(Reuters) - Dell Inc postponed a crucial vote on CEO Michael Dell's$24.4 billion buyout offer to July 24, buying time to solicit more proxy votes and drum up more support despite winning over several...
View ArticleNelson Mandela Day
Some amazing stories about Mandela, his law firm, his children’s umbilical cords, the prison:Read more posts on caterina.net »Join the conversation about this story »
View ArticleJack Gilbert and H.D.
Poetry! Just this week I’ve met two other poetry fans. It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I’m not familiar with. One of them recommended Jack Gilbert’s...
View ArticleLife before meaning
“We must love life before loving its meaning. We must love life, and some meaning may grow from that love. But “if love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.”– From Dostoevsky (second hand,...
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A couple weeks ago, I was honored with an award from the NCWIT. the National Center for Women and Information Technology. Unfortunately, I had a bad flu and couldn’t accept the award in person. So my...
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Apartamento, a magazine out of Spain, but written in English, is one of my favorite magazines. The latest issue just arrived in the mail today and I am happily listening to YLE and leafing through it....
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