Yahoo Is Planning to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion

[NyTimes] : "The board of Yahoo, the faded Web pioneer, agreed on Sunday to buy the popular blogging service Tumblr for about $1.1 billion in cash, people with direct knowledge of the matter said, a signal of how"

Lawmakers Show Concerns About Google’s New Glasses

[NyTimes] : "Eight members of Congress on Thursday formally demanded that Google address a range of privacy concerns about its new wearable technology device, Google Glass. The letter, addressed to Larry Page,"

VMware takes on the BYOD problem with -- you guessed it -- virtualization

[Link] : If you’ve talked to a CIO lately, you’ve likely got an earful about having to support employee smartphones and the problems they bring — users sending off company files to…

Parallelism and concurrency need different tools

[Link] : concurrent (noun): Archaic. a rival or competitor. – dictionary.com Two lines that do not intersect are called parallel lines. – Wikipedia In this piece, I disagree with Joe Armstrong…

Google Escalates the Competition in Map Services

[NyTimes] : "Larry Page, chief executive, says the new maps have a cleaner and more intuitive layout. SAN FRANCISCO — Cartographers, beware: the map wars have begun."

The New Yorker Launches Strongbox, an Open-Source Anonymous Tip Tool Built by Aaron Swartz

[Link] : Technology gives journalists unprecedented power to track down information. And technology gives lots of other people the ability to follow journalists’ footprints. Just ask the Associated…

Ingenious: A Mini Mobile Browser That Lives in Your Desktop Browser

[Link] : Glimpse in action. Thanks to responsive design, most modern websites (including this one) serve up different versions of themselves depending on what device you’re using to visit them –…

More Clients Ask Questions of Bloomberg

[NyTimes] : "Fallout From Snooping Controversy: Amy Chozick of The New York Times and Tom Lowry of CNBC Digital discuss on CNBC that reporters for Bloomberg News used the company’s terminals to monitor"

Real Estate or Utility? Surging Data Center Industry Blurs Boundaries

[NyTimes] : "The Equinix data center in Secaucus, N.J. Equinix has announced plans to restructure itself as a real estate investment trust, which would eventually save the company more than $100 million in taxes"

Two strategies: The Washington Post vs. The NYT

[Link] : Both are great American newspapers, both suffer from the advertising slump and from the transition to digital. But the New York Times’ paywall strategy is making a huge difference.  The…

You Can Do Too Much Due Diligence

[Link] : It's Monday, time for another lesson I've learned in the venture capital business. Today I will tell a story that I love telling. It has some of my favorite people in it. Back in 2004, early in my…

New York State to Ask Smartphone Makers to Help Prevent Thefts

[NyTimes] : "Concerned about an increase in smartphone thefts, the New York State attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is trying to get the nation's largest cellphone makers to do more to discourage the"

Search Is Eating The World

[Link] : Much of the crew just got back from Lucene Revolution. It was an incredible experience to hang out with the cream-of-the-crop of the Lucene/Solr community. It continues to be clear…

Moloch

[Link] : Moloch is a open source large scale IPv4 full PCAP capturing, indexing and database system.

Saying Goodbye to Titles, and Hello to Responsibility

[NyTimes] : "This interview with Seth Merrin, founder and chief executive of Liquidnet, the trading network, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. Tell me about some of the values of your culture. A. One"

In Big-Dollar Philanthropy, (Your Name Here) vs. Anonymity

[NyTimes] : "The David H. Koch Theater, named for the billionaire industrialist, is the home of the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center. One hundred million dollars. As"

Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears

[NyTimes] : "The average carbon dioxide reading surpassed 400 parts per million at the research facility atop the Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii for the 24 hours that ended at 8 p.m. on Thursday. The"

Privacy Breach on Bloomberg’s Data Terminals

[NyTimes] : "A shudder went through Wall Street on Friday after the revelation that Bloomberg News reporters had extracted subscribers’ private information through the company’s ubiquitous data"

Elon Musk and David Sacks Depart Fwd.us, Mark Zuckerberg’s Political Action Group

[Link] : Elon Musk and David Sacks, two of the Silicon Valley stars behind Fwd.us, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s political action committee, have left the group, according to sources familiar with the…

RawHyde's California Adventure

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