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If Facebook were to go public now, it would be valued at $102.8 billion. Of course, that's not going to happen, since the company only filed for its initial public offering (IPO) last month.
The BIG browser benchmark! Chrome 18 vs Opera 11 vs Firefox 11 vs IE9 vs Safari 5 ... which browser will be triumphant?
Groupon has been forced to revise its fourth quarter earnings report, lowering revenue and net income. However, there might be more reason to worry.
Online outrage increases over sexualized, so-called stalking app Girls Around Me - though it is not the first of its kind.
The Federal Trade Commission has cleared all of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's paperwork. Another box has been checked on the company's road to going public.
About 55 million homes in all that own something bearing the Apple logo on it.
Card processor Global Payments has reportedly been struck by a security breach that puts approximately 50,000 cardholders at risk.
Researchers from the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) have spotted an ongoing Facebook phishing attack, spreading across Syrian pro-revolution forums on Facebook.
According to security researchers from Norman, they have intercepted a copy of the Sogu malware, that's abusing MSDN, Baidu, LinkedIn and Twitter as C&C servers.
All Facebook Pages get the new Timeline design starting today at 11:00 AM PST. Facebook does not have a date and time for when the update process will be complete for all Pages.
Adoption of paid cloud applications and infrastructure services is especially rapid among companies with two to 10 employees, according to an SMB survey sponsored by the software giant.
Most of the job cuts will happen withing Yahoo's product, research and marketing units.
The Opera Web browser for Mac OS X has been recently updated to version 11.62, with the latest update patching six security holes.
According to a newly published data, Mac OS X users are just as susceptible to targeted attacks, as Windows users are.
Both Visa and MasterCard have confirmed they have warned U.S. banks that a credit card processor was reportedly breached. Both firms say their own security systems were not compromised.
In a newly published research by Elcomsoft's researchers, the company argues that many of the mobile secure password managers aren't as secure by design, as originally thought of.
Not very fast, really unstable, and falling in popularity, does Firefox have a future?
A school has denied six boys their diplomas after they posted photos on Facebook that made them look like they were kissing. After some negotiation, the boys will be allowed to graduate.
Security researchers from Sophos, have spotted a bogus Chinese game, that's actually a trojan horse gathering sensitive information from infected devices, next to sending premium-rate SMS messages.
Security researchers from "Stop Malvertising Spam & Scams", have intercepted a currently circulating malicious email campaign, that's impersonating GestPay
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Last Facebook pre-IPO valuation is highest yet: $102.8 billion
Mar 30, 11:52PM
If Facebook were to go public now, it would be valued at $102.8 billion. Of course, that's not going to happen, since the company only filed for its initial public offering (IPO) last month.
The BIG browser benchmark: Chrome 18 vs Opera 11 vs Firefox 11 vs IE9 vs Safari 5
Mar 30, 9:47PM
The BIG browser benchmark! Chrome 18 vs Opera 11 vs Firefox 11 vs IE9 vs Safari 5 ... which browser will be triumphant?
Groupon backtracks, lowers Q4 2011 revenue estimates
Mar 30, 9:01PM
Groupon has been forced to revise its fourth quarter earnings report, lowering revenue and net income. However, there might be more reason to worry.
Stalker app Girls Around Me hunts women via Facebook, Foursquare
Mar 30, 8:55PM
Online outrage increases over sexualized, so-called stalking app Girls Around Me - though it is not the first of its kind.
FTC clears IPO paperwork for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Mar 30, 7:47PM
The Federal Trade Commission has cleared all of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's paperwork. Another box has been checked on the company's road to going public.
Half of US households own an Apple product
Mar 30, 7:10PM
About 55 million homes in all that own something bearing the Apple logo on it.
Security breach extends to Global Payments card processor
Mar 30, 6:43PM
Card processor Global Payments has reportedly been struck by a security breach that puts approximately 50,000 cardholders at risk.
Facebook phishing attack targets Syrian activists
Mar 30, 6:39PM
Researchers from the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) have spotted an ongoing Facebook phishing attack, spreading across Syrian pro-revolution forums on Facebook.
Cybercriminals use Twitter, LinkedIn, Baidu, MSDN as command and control infrastructure
Mar 30, 6:02PM
According to security researchers from Norman, they have intercepted a copy of the Sogu malware, that's abusing MSDN, Baidu, LinkedIn and Twitter as C&C servers.
All Facebook Pages get Timeline
Mar 30, 6:00PM
All Facebook Pages get the new Timeline design starting today at 11:00 AM PST. Facebook does not have a date and time for when the update process will be complete for all Pages.
Microsoft data suggests SMB cloud adoption poised to double
Mar 30, 5:50PM
Adoption of paid cloud applications and infrastructure services is especially rapid among companies with two to 10 employees, according to an SMB survey sponsored by the software giant.
Yahoo layoffs reportedly starting next week
Mar 30, 5:33PM
Most of the job cuts will happen withing Yahoo's product, research and marketing units.
Opera for Mac OS X patches 6 security holes
Mar 30, 5:26PM
The Opera Web browser for Mac OS X has been recently updated to version 11.62, with the latest update patching six security holes.
Targeted Pro-Tibetan malware attacks hit Mac OS X users
Mar 30, 4:58PM
According to a newly published data, Mac OS X users are just as susceptible to targeted attacks, as Windows users are.
Visa, MasterCard confirm credit card security breach
Mar 30, 4:41PM
Both Visa and MasterCard have confirmed they have warned U.S. banks that a credit card processor was reportedly breached. Both firms say their own security systems were not compromised.
Research: Many mobile password managers offer false feeling of security
Mar 30, 4:34PM
In a newly published research by Elcomsoft's researchers, the company argues that many of the mobile secure password managers aren't as secure by design, as originally thought of.
Firefox 11 review: Firefox has jumped the shark
Mar 30, 4:32PM
Not very fast, really unstable, and falling in popularity, does Firefox have a future?
Boys post Facebook kissing photos, school withholds diplomas
Mar 30, 4:31PM
A school has denied six boys their diplomas after they posted photos on Facebook that made them look like they were kissing. After some negotiation, the boys will be allowed to graduate.
Fake 'Roar of the Pharaoh' Android game spreads premium-rate SMS trojan
Mar 30, 4:18PM
Security researchers from Sophos, have spotted a bogus Chinese game, that's actually a trojan horse gathering sensitive information from infected devices, next to sending premium-rate SMS messages.
'Pixmania.com payment order detail' themed emails serving SpyEye crimeware
Mar 30, 4:05PM
Security researchers from "Stop Malvertising Spam & Scams", have intercepted a currently circulating malicious email campaign, that's impersonating GestPay
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Editor's note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written 6 books on investing. His latest books are I Was Blind But Now I See and FAQ ME. You can follow him on Twitter @jaltucher. Ken Lang could perform miracles. In 1990 we would head off to a bar near where we were going to graduate school for computer science, and we would bring a Go board. Then we would drink and play Go for five hours. At the end of the five hours, after a grueling battle over the board, I remember this one time when magically Ken would show up with two girls who were actually willing to sit down and hang out with two guys who had a GO BOARD in front of them. How did Ken do that? Fast forward: 1991, CMU asks me to leave graduate school, citing lack of maturity. The professor who threw me out still occasionally calls me up asking me when I'm going to be mature enough. Fast forward: 1994, one of our classmates, Michael Mauldin is working on a database that automatically sorts by category pages his spider retrieves on the Internet. The name of his computer: lycos.cs.cmu.edu. Lycos eventually spins out of CMU, becomes the biggest seach engine, and goes public with a multi-billlion dollar valuation. Fast forward: Ken Lang starts a company called WiseWire. I was incredibly skeptical. I read through what the company is about. "No way," I think to myself, "that this is going to make any money". 1998: Ken files a patent that classified how search results and ad results are sorted based on the number of click-thrus an ad gets. He sells the company to Lycos for $40 million. Ken Lang becomes CTO of Lycos and they take over his patents.
I would normally rather have a root canal instead of write about the issue of women in technology. I just find most essays on this really tedious and obvious. (Sorry Alexia.) But I do want to point one thing out. When I went to my first Y Combinator Demo Day three years ago, there was one woman. At this week's Demo Day, there were six companies with one or all female founders among the 66 startups in the class. I'm going to keep this post simple. No complaining. Less navel gazing. Just more role models. So here are the women of Y Combinator and they are awesome:
Photos and video can be even more personal than a handwritten card. That's why 
Daily deals site 
With 
This year was supposed to be the year of the Ultrabook. It was supposed to be the year where svelte notebooks became standard. It was supposed to be the year that Intel's latest ultra-mobile platform gave Windows PC makers something to celebrate. But that's not happening. At least not yet. And that shouldn't come as a surprise.
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Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Rob La Gesse, and Steve Gillmor. Recording has concluded.
>From the outside, we early adopters see Best Buy as a dinosaur in a dying world. The company recently announced the closing of 50 stores in the U.S. and 400 layoffs, mostly in corporate. It would be easy to say "Good riddance" and ignore the slow decline of bricks and mortar, but I wanted to speak to someone inside the company. I got a hold of a manager who wished to remain anonymous and was considered a solid and dedicated employee. I asked him what it's like inside his store right now. "Basically what's going on is that we got to work and heard about the 50 store closings and we started wondering about job security. Immediately my reaction was 'Oh, crap, what am I going to do?'" he said.
It's hard to forget that scene in the Graduate when the young, confused Benjamin is approached by a family friend who tells him the future in two words: sentry guns. Now you, too, can enter this lucrative world with Project Sentry, an open source tracking sentry gun system that uses a webcam to scan the scene and take down your prey.
According to 
Back in 2009, 
So you're in town to follow up on some weak leads and your boss says you've got to stay put for a few more days because there's an old lady out near Patton Road who is looking to buy and you call back and say you got to get back to HQ for some paperwork and your boss says "Make the most of it." The only thing that counts in this world, friend, is getting them to sign on the line which is dotted. Am I right? So you need some new leads, or at least some new people in your Rolodex. That's where 
There's no shortage of apps that help people find cheap gas these days, but apps that let you pay for it? And ones that give you a discount for doing it? Sign me up. Regional gas station/convenience store chain Cumberland Farms has done just that with their 
Netflix has been making a few moves to separate its DVD business more from its streaming operation, and today brings news of the latest move in that direction: the company has bought the domain name DVD.com, the company has confirmed to us. The news raises questions of Netflix possibly getting ready to pull a Qwikster on us after all and separate its streaming and DVD businesses -- something others have suggested it might do -- but TechCrunch understands that there are no plans to spin off its DVD business into a separate company, Ã la the Qwikster strategy of last year that so qwikly spiraled into a PR disaster for the company, and was then abandoned.
I don't know if 
Having 
In the debate over whether there can ever exist "another Silicon Valley" and where, exactly, it would be, add in another contender: Skolkovo, an ambitious high-tech sprawl being built outside of Moscow, which this week announced the latest two companies to invest in its big idea: Cisco and Bessemer Venture Partners. Bessemer has promised investments worth $20 million over the next two years into startups that are resident at Skolkovo, while Cisco has dedicated an unspecified part of a $1 billion injection it is making into Russia over a number of years to build an R&D lab in the area -- part of big push from the government to take some of the technology know-how that Russia has been producing for decades and give it a significantly more commercial spin.
Apple's blanket rejection of apps accessing UDIDs is just the latest in a long line of erratic behavior on Apple's part of enforcing the rules of the iOS App Store. Sure, Apple warned developers that they were deprecating UDID, but like many of Apple's Solomonic pronouncements about the iOS App Store it was a little unclear, vague and open to interpretation. Many developers 
When it comes to countries with thriving startup ecosystems, Israel ranks among the best. With nearly 5,000 startups currently in business -- second only to the U.S. -- the country's pool of entrepreneurial talent has been attracting Western businesses and entrepreneurs for years. But, in January, Gil Ben-Artzy and Shuly Galili launched a startup accelerator that aims to reverse this trend in favor of Israeli entrepreneurs, by bringing the country's promising founders to Silicon Valley to help them kick start their businesses. And, today, after 10 weeks of mentoring, networking, and iterating, 
TechCrunch's 
It will be virtually impossible to succeed in the new reimbursement model without recognizing what has long been said, but little done about it -- "the most important member of the care team is the patient." Having implemented or reviewed over 100 health IT systems, there is one common purpose at the core of the architecture of these systems -- how to get as big a bill out as quickly as possible. That has been an entirely rational response to the flawed reimbursement model at the heart of healthcare's hyperinflation (here's a not-so-fun fact: Since the 60's, while all non-healthcare expenditures increased 8x, healthcare increased 274x).
February was a big month for Kickstarter. Not only did they have a number of 
Much ink has been spilled on the huge leaps in communications, social networking, and commerce that have resulted from impressive gains in IT and processing power over the last 30 years. However, relatively little has been said about how computing power is about to impact our lives in the biggest way yet: Health. Two things are happening in parallel: technology to collect biological data is taking off and computing is becoming massively scalable. The combination of the two is about to revolutionize health care. Understanding disease and how to treat it requires a deep knowledge of human biology and what goes wrong in diseased cells. Up until now this has meant that scientists do experiments, read papers, and go to seminars to get data to build models of both normal and diseased cell states. However, medical research is about to go through a tectonic shift made possible by new technological breakthroughs that have made data collection much more 
Here we go again: the rumors of Google branching out into the tablet space have been floating around for what seems like ages now, and the 
This past week has been a big wake-up call for the iOS developer community. The need to move away from UDIDs, or an ID scheme that many developers rely on to power advertising and store data about their users, took on extra urgency after Apple issued a few app rejections related to UDID use over the past week and a half. Even though Apple told developers that it would deprecate UDIDs about six months ago, the community hadn't yet converged on a good alternative. There is a lot of misinformation right now. Because Apple often communicates policy changes through one-off app rejections instead of publishing a clear and transparent notice to everyone, developers get aggravated by rumors. While being super secretive stokes consumer appetite for Apple products, it's a ridiculously awful way to operate a platform that 700,000 apps rely on. Chartboost, which does direct advertising trades between developers, sent out an e-mail last night saying that the stories about UDID rejections are "completely fabricated." But another indie developer, TapBots, posted an actual copy of a rejection notice they received this morning (pictured below). So what is going on?
The Internet killed the magazine star. There's been a major round of layoffs at 
Research In Motion, maker of the once ubiquitous BlackBerry, just released its Q4 2012 earnings. 
An 
This just in folks: RIM has released their 
The 
Advertisers looking for higher ROI from their Facebook 
eBay CEO John Donahoe 
Do you want to get a slot as part of the next batch of Y Combinator startups? Are you curious about what the founders chosen for the program did to get there? If your answer is yes to either of those questions, then read on. Today, FamilyLeaf -- a kind of "Facebook for families -- and one of the companies that presented earlier this week during the Demo Day, decided that they would make public the application that they submitted for the program.
Does the world need another mobile social app? A new startup called 
Now it's as easy as a fist-pound to pay a friend back for dinner, drinks, or a cab. 
Online dating is a hard nut to crack. First of all, it's a very personal process ported to a largely impersonal medium -- and then there's the creep factor. Next, it's a big business, but a small set of names dominate mindshare. Sure, with size and scale comes revenue, but it also brings less appealing byproducts like noise, faked pictures, lazy filtering, inadequate profiles, and the difficulty of judging actual interest from spam or "virtual winking". People have become more comfortable with the idea of dating online, but they don't want an experience that explicitly (and constantly) reminds them of what they're doing. Instead, eDaters want to avoid overexposure, and experience "newness" by going beyond their immediate social graph. Although it may sound counterintuitive, a new site launching today called 
AllThingsD has reported, and we have now confirmed, that OMERS Ventures, a Canada-based VC, has taken a $20-million investment in HootSuite, the social media management platform, valuing the company at around $200 million. The investment is a secondary one, and will be coming in the form of purchases of equity from HootSuite's existing shareholders. These include employees as well as existing investors. That list includes Blumberg Capital, Hearst Ventures, Geoff Entress and Millennium Technology Value Partners, who collectively have invested $4.9 million into the company: $3 million in debt and a $1.9 million capital investment.
Just as Amazon is launching a 
Developers are at odds over Adobe's plan to charge a 9 percent revenue share for higher-end Flash games that make more than $50,000 in revenues. So today, Adobe 
Founder and investor
As 
The SEC recently concluded its investigation of the emerging market for pre-IPO shares of private companies, resulting in charges being brought against three market participants. I am proud to say that SecondMarket was not among those investigated or charged with wrongdoing. While the press focused on the SEC "cracking down" on the private company market, the investigation actually focused on wrongdoing that has existed in the securities markets for decades: broker-dealers using improper sales practices and charging inappropriate fees, and unregistered middlemen improperly acting as broker-dealers.
Finally, a dating site where you can find someone to actually date, not just sleep with. New 
The small business economy is suffering considerable harm from new regulations being enforced by the IRS this year. There's a new tax form that's causing this trouble for small business owners who collect ePayments and conduct eCommerce. The IRS 
Palo Alto, Calif.-based 
Hey there, Kindle Fire owners -- Amazon's rolling out a brand new software update for you, and it packs quite a few worthwhile (and arguably overdue) tweaks for your budget-conscious tablet. Take sharing, for example. Oddly absent from the Kindle Fire at launch was the ability to share interesting snippets of text like its e-ink brethren, but that functionality has been added, along with the ability to tap into Amazon's people-powered Shelfari service for what the company calls Book Extras -- extra related information pertaining to the book a reader is poring through.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a knack for using his considerable net worth in interesting ways -- 
Well, that didn't take long. A proposed Facebook user protection amendment introduced yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives has already been shot down. The legislation, offered by Democratic Congressman Ed Perlmutter, would have added new restrictions to FCC rules that would have prohibited employers from demanding workers' social networking usernames and passwords. The final vote was 
After 
YouTube is announcing a new program to nurture the next generation of video bloggers. The Next Vlogger initiative is part of 
When I was growing up, my dad had this yellow legal pad that sat right by the door. When he walked in at night, he wrote down numbers and codes. JCF - $12 JSM - $42 CCCl - $37 I didn't understand at the time, but the numbers were daily expenses (rounded up to the nearest dollar), and the codes were tags for which member of the family he was spending on, and the type of spending he was doing. Try as he might to teach me the way of the budget code, I just can't get in the habit. But you know what I'm in the habit of doing every day (no matter how grudgingly)? Email. And that's exactly what expense-tracking webapp 
