The Disrupt NYC Hackathon: We’re 8 Hours In

There's a strong murmur in the room with random spurts of excitement. Hackers and coders have teamed up and mostly (hopefully) decided on a project. There are only 15 hours left. But night is approaching. That's when things tend to get loopy thanks to the.....»»

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Day After IPO, Mark Zuckerberg Marries Longtime Girlfriend Priscilla Chan

What a week. After eight years, Mark Zuckerberg takes Facebook public at a $104 billion valuation. His longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan gets her medical degree from the UC San Francisco. And to top it all off, they get married today. Mazel tov. An ama.....»»

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Mobile Miscellany: week of May 14th, 2012

Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you're like us and really want to know what's going on, then you've come to the right place. This past week, Verizon Wireless brought its LTE service to 28 new markets and expanded its reach in 11.....»»

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Zuckerberg Just Got Married [Facebook]

Mark "IPO" Zuckerberg just dropped a Facebook status update bigger than the NASDAQ bomb: he and longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan are married, only a day after he became one of the richest men on the planet. He wore a suit! More ».....»»

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A Sofa That Encourages You To Lose Things Between the Cushions [Wish You Were Here]

Even though the cushions on your couch can be a black hole for everything from pocket change to the TV remote, they're also a handy place to quickly hide stuff when company visits. And it's that exact idea that inspired Jess Fügler's Jam Sofa. More&nb.....»»

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Samsung announces 4Gb DDR2 modules for smartphones and tablets

Coming second half of 2012.....»»

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Facebook stock sags in IPO

Stock offering manages 23 cents above expectation.....»»

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Facebook IPO starts

There’s money in those peoples' details.....»»

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Twitter to offer more tailored following suggestions

Say bye to vacuous celebrities.....»»

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Dolby announces Dolby TruHD 96kHz for Blu-ray titles

Will allow each stage of the production process to work with the lossless codec.....»»

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At Universal Music Group, There Are Roughly 25 Executives Making a Million Dollars or More...

Still? Yes indeed, according to estimates shared by a pair of sources, both of whom agreed to disclose top-level compensation details with Digital Music News......»»

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Ring of Fire: How Japan sees it

Tokyo residents are going crazy over the highly anticipated appearance of the solar “ring of fire,” expected at 7:35a.m., Monday, May 21st. View the full article HERE......»»

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Apple pledges clean power for datacentre following Greenpeace protest

Shaun Nichols, V3.co.uk Company will use green energy in largest datacentre Apple is promising to use renewable energy sources following a high-profile protest from environmental group Greenpeace. The company has outlined a plan which will see its Maide.....»»

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Twitter enables Do Not Track support

Shaun Nichols, V3.co.uk Microblogging site gets behind privacy campaign Twitter is gaining praise from privacy rights groups after enabling support for the Do Not Track browser option. The company on Thursday confirmed that it had enabled the feature, w.....»»

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Top 10 pitfalls for Facebook to avoid now it has gone public

V3 Staff, V3.co.uk Stop fiddling with the design, watch your back and don't lose user data Now Facebook has unleashed its stocks to the market in the most eagerly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) of the decade, everything seems rosy for the fir.....»»

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Facebook fizzles in IPO

Madeline Bennett, V3.co.uk Stock offering fails to live up to expectations Facebook's eagerly-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) failed to live up to expectations Friday as the company's stock sagged in trading. Initially priced at $38, Facebook'.....»»

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US senators plan to force Facebook"s Saverin to pay taxes

Shaun Nichols, V3.co.uk Plans would see millionaire expats pay taxes even after relinquishing citizenship US senators Charles Schumer and Bob Casey have introduced a new proposal in response to Facebook creator Eduardo Saverin's planned attempt to dodge.....»»

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HP goes live with EcoPod datacentre housing 2,000 servers

Shaun Nichols, V3.co.uk Container-based system deployed for first time HP has deployed its first EcoPod container-based datacentre. The company installed the ultra-compact datacentre platform at its facility in Alpharetta, Georgia. The 40-foot container.....»»

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Make mainframes, not war: how Mad Men sold computers in the 1960s and 1970s

Celebs, comics, and—at times—computing itself helped sell the young technology. Cover photo for a 1964 brochure for the PDS 1020 Digital Computer. Computer History Museum Madison Avenue's strategy for .....»»

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Apple Files for Preliminary Injunction Against Galaxy Tab 10.1

In the latest move in a complex series of patent-related cases, Apple filed a motion in a U.S. district court late Friday to ban Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Tab........»»

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