May 2013
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WordPress CEO on the Yahoo-Tumblr acquisition →
Prior to the confirmation of Yahoo’s deal with Tumblr, WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg revealed that while on average he saw 400-600 blog post transfers from Tumblr to WordPress every hour, on Sunday that rate reached 72,000 posts in the hour preceding his post. As with news of platform acquisitions, exodus like this isn’t uncommon. Mullenweg also said that at $1.1 billion, Yahoo scored...
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Tumblr Staff: News! →
staff: Everyone, I’m elated to tell you that Tumblr will be joining Yahoo. Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing. And our mission – to empower creators to…
May 20th
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aulia-m: Breaking: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the blogging site Tumblr. wsj.com — Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 19, 2013
May 19th
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alfabytes: Thought via Path →
aulia-m: So @ariefr said if he was running Tumblr he’d sell for a billion to Microsoft and let them deal with the porn. If you were running Tumblr and Yahoo dangles a billion USD in cash in front of you, would you sell? Consider Instagram selling to Facebook for $300 million in cash and $700 million in…
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May 15th
Some mobile messaging stats from June 212 →
For anyone who might need some stats about mobile messaging, here’s a few put together by mobithinking. It’s quite insightful for references on any discussion on this subject. This was primarily based on Portio’s research released in early 2012 but the 2013 research was just released in late April, so if you have access to that, you can compare it and update certain figures and...
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App taps clues to your happiness →
bbc.co.uk An app designed to follow personal moods has been launched by researchers at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Researchers at Cambridge University combine smartphone data and user input to determine mood and track happiness through a mobile application. While apps like these are becoming common, supposedly this is the first one to make such an evaluation based on passive data and...
May 7th
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The Money Shot →
The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom, it was more of a roller-coaster ride, with several missed opportunities, at least two “aha” moments, and one major reboot. Here’s the long story of how Facebook acquired Instagram
May 6th
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On To Google Ventures
parislemon: It was almost exactly 19 months ago that I laid down the proverbial writer’s pen and picked up the less proverbial pen for writing checks. It has been an amazing experience getting a fund up and running, learning, and ultimately, making a lot of wonderful investments. I’ve enjoyed it so much that I’ve decided to dive deeper by joining Google Ventures as a general partner. Just as I...
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April 2013
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LivingSocial Hacked: Information of 50 Million... →
securityweek.com Daily deals site and Groupon com­peti­tor, Liv­ing­So­cial, said on Fri­day that it had fall­en vic­tim to a cyber attack that put its rough­ly 50 mil­lion users at risk. “Liv­ing­So­cial recent­ly exp … LivingSocial has revealed that it has had it’s entire user database of over 50 million members breached and stolen. While no credit card data was taken, the database...
Apr 26th
End WWDC →
bitsplitting.org Not long ago, when Apple’s WWDC con­fer­ence dates were announced, a slow trick­le of reg­is­tra­tions would occur as devel­op­ers con­sult­ed with spous­es, boss­es, and co-workers to deter­mine, in … Getting tickets for Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference has become something of an event in itself, overshadowing the actual event which happens in June. This...
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“Amazon is not a retailer anymore, it is the largest behavioral marketing company...”
– Yaakov Kimelfeld, chief research officer at Kantar Media Compete, talking to Reuters about the company’s advertising network prospects. (via parislemon)
Apr 25th
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Interview with Chosun Daily of Korea about Apple →
Horace Dediu, asymco.com The following interview took place by email on April 15th, 2013.1. What are the truth and false about the ‘Apple shock’ currently? In what perspective should we see this?First, I’d point out that during Steve Jobs’ time the company suffered many s… An interview with Horace Dediu by a South Korean publication about the state of things at Apple, Inc. Worth reading if...
Apr 23rd
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Who Cares If It's Been Tried Before? →
parislemon: Elad Gil: Some good ideas have a lot of bad implementations before someone comes in and does it well enough to win big. Obvious, and yet, often overlooked.
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