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Spoiler Alert: The First Four Episodes Of Game Of Thrones Season 5 Just Leaked

Apr 12, 8:18AM

thrones Ouch. If you hate Game Of Thrones spoilers, you might want to keep your head down and your router disconnected for the next…like, month. Don’t worry, though: this post, at least, will be spoiler free. The very night before Game Of Thrones Season 5 was set to premiere, the first four episodes of the season have been leaked simultaneously. Rumors of this leak started circulating on… Read More



What Happens At AngelPad

Apr 12, 7:01AM

AngelPad1 Editor’s note: Ashish Krishna is a co-founder and designer at Mammoth. I’m in the car of my co-founder Karan Gupta driving to a brewery in San Francisco. I’m thinking we are all going to get drunk — really drunk. Wishful thinking. It’s past midnight, I’m sober as ever and I’m emailing angels, founders and VCs we met earlier in the day. Life of a… Read More



New York-Based Tech IPOs Signal East Coast Tech Validation

Apr 12, 1:00AM

digitalcity Silicon Alley’s digerati are poised to celebrate what’s been years in the making as the locus for tech public offerings expands beyond Silicon Valley. Further evidence is mounting that New York’s scene is building momentum thanks to marquee public offerings are anticipated from Etsy to Gilt Groupe, AppNexus to Outbrain, with many more expected in the offing. Read More



The Risk Of Reviewing The Reviewer

Apr 11, 9:00PM

reviews Reviews impact everything: what brands we trust, what we purchase, what we eat, and even how we travel. Online reviews have factored into my purchasing decisions as a millennial. I was barely a teenager when Yelp was founded, and today, over a decade later, reviews have transformed the online consumer landscape. Yet what does the future hold as we enter an age when even the customer –… Read More



Square Enix Launches A Cloud-Powered Final Fantasy XIII For iOS And Android In Japan

Apr 11, 7:04PM

Final Fantasy XII It seems Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix is experimenting with bringing its AAA console games to mobile, as the company has launched a version of Final Fantasy XIII for iOS and Android that runs in the cloud and streams to your phone or tablet. Read More



Nattch Wants To Sell A Distraction-Free Social Network

Apr 11, 7:00PM

Nattch Nattch is a mobile social network for people tired of the digital noise found on mainstream social services — whether it’s ads, memes, animated GIFs, videos of cute cats. Whatever. Point being that stuff can be termed extraneous distraction if the reason you signed up to the service was to learn about your friends’ lives. Not see another trollface meme. Or Taylor Swift GIF. Read More



Microsofties Were All Over That New Windows 10 Build

Apr 11, 6:46PM

windows10 Windows Phone users were understandably interested in the new code, as it represents Microsoft’s most complete vision to date of how Windows 10 — the company’s attempt at a universal platform — will update their handsets. Read More



A Connected Planet, Digital Telepathy And Other Passions Of Ramez Naam

Apr 11, 6:00PM

Ramez Naam Ramez Naam started his career in technology at Microsoft in 1995, where for six years, he worked on early versions of Internet Explorer and Outlook before launching a nanotechnology company in 2001. Those were the early days for nanotechnology — before everyone realized that its real commercial applications were at least a couple of decades away. Read More



Twitch Turns "Twitch Plays Pokémon" Into A Native Ad Format

Apr 11, 5:07PM

Twitch Plays Old Spice Starting April 16, Twitch and Procter & Gamble will launch “The Old Spice Nature Adventure,” putting a guy in the woods with a bunch of hidden booby traps and silly gags for three days and letting Twitch users control him via commands in chat. Read More



Yahoo Answers Is Not Research, Or How Two Startups Are Fighting For The Future Of Knowledge

Apr 11, 5:05PM

6800805548_f3d337452d_o We’re told never to forget the ultimate laziness of humans, but when it comes to research in the internet age, sometimes that laziness can shock even the most prepared of minds. Students in grade school have grown accustomed to “remixing” internet sources to create their research reports, copying a line from here and a line from there into a massive kludge of plagiarism… Read More



Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business

Apr 11, 3:07PM

twitter-locked In the push for more revenue growth, Twitter has been building up its business in areas like advertising and commerce, but a move made late Friday night points to another area where the company is setting its sights: big data analytics. Twitter announced that it will be terminating agreements with third parties for reselling firehose data — the unfiltered, full stream of Tweets and… Read More



A New Revolution Modernizes The Revenue Supply Chain

Apr 11, 3:00PM

bank vault These days, marketing technology companies (MarTech) are white-hot. No one can deny the incredible opportunity these startups have presented for venture capitalists. The value of these applications is the ability to enable marketing teams to identify prospects more quickly and convert them into qualified leads for sales more effectively. Read More



Whatever Happened To PaaS?

Apr 11, 1:00PM

baby-jane In 2009 I discovered Google App Engine and fell in love. Its promise: any software developer could build web apps available to anyone, anywhere, 24/7, without having to worry about server configuration, or database setup, or OS versions, or security patches, or load balancing, or scaling. Automatic scaling! All we had to do was write our code; App Engine would handle everything else. Read More



'Great Cannon' Is China's New Weapon That Shoots Down Internet Sites

Apr 11, 4:45AM

cannon China is widely suspect to be behind the recent attacks on Github and internet freedom group Great Fire. Now we have the most concrete evidence that indeed it was, and it looks like it did so using a new weapon to boot. Read More



As Vertical Marketplaces Rise, Craigslist Faces Its Demise

Apr 11, 2:00AM

excitebike-craigslist Craigslist is one of the largest marketplaces on the Internet today, but as we see it, not for long. Over the last several years, we’ve watched businesses and consumers shift away from Craigslist and toward vertical marketplaces. The shift implies an abundance of exciting vertical marketplace investment opportunities. Read More



What It's Like To Try Out The Apple Watch In-Store

Apr 11, 1:42AM

Apple Watch fitting demo Apple began offering previews of the Apple Watch at its stores this morning, and we had a chance to show up early and get a run-through of the demo process before doors opened to customers looking to make an appointment. Read More



TC AppleCast 12: Apple Watch, MacBook And Beards

Apr 10, 11:16PM

TC-applecast16-9 It’s Apple Watch pre-order day! The new device went on sale this morning at just after midnight Pacific time, and now shipping times are extending to at least June across the product lineup. Our guest today, The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple (@jdalrymple), not only successfully ordered three but also went to the Apple Store in Palo Alto to check out the in-store experience. I also managed… Read More



Instacart Is Quietly Working With Third Parties To Outsource (Some Of) Its Deliveries

Apr 10, 11:10PM

Instacart Bags Instacart, the on-demand grocery delivery startup that is reportedly valued north of $2 billion, is growing fast in 15 markets throughout the country. As it seeks to meet that demand, the company has begun experimenting with outsourcing deliveries through third-party companies, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. Read More



Congress Returns Next Week With A Tech-Heavy Agenda

Apr 10, 10:38PM

capitol building Congress is back from a recess this week, and with lawmakers we’ll see the return of some familiar issues. We will see Congress address patent reform and cybersecurity in the coming weeks. Once lawmakers finish with cybersecurity, it’s possible we could even see legislation related to National Security Agency (NSA) phone record collection before the end of the month.  These are… Read More



Snapchat Goes Hard At Coachella With New Dynamic Filters

Apr 10, 10:25PM

Snapchat Coachella Snapchat wants to usurp Instagram as they way to share Coachella Music Festival adventure. So today it revealed a new style of Geofilters that change throughout the day to tell friends what they’re looking at. Rather than just a generic “Coachella” illustration that can be overlaid on photos or videos all day, Snapchat has different ones for each Coachella band that are… Read More




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