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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Details on Marc Andreessen's New Fund (Plus Five Other Interesting Things He Said) — Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are launching their much-anticipated $300 million venture fund this evening, aptly called Andreessen Horowitz. — The fund will make investments of $50,000 to $50 million …
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Introducing our new venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz — My partner Ben Horowitz and I are delighted to announce the formation of our new venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, and our first fund — $300 million in size — aimed purely at investing in the best new entrepreneurs …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Web pioneer Andreessen raises $300M for new venture capital firm — Marc Andreessen, the entrepreneur who co-founded the first significant Web browser Netscape at 22, is moving on to his next profession: Venture Capitalism. — Andreessen (pictured left) with his long-time business partner …
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Richard Wray / Guardian:
Nokia turns to Android in phone wars — Finnish mobile phone giant changes strategy to increase share in the only growing market — Nokia is understood to be developing a mobile phone that runs on Google's Android software platform in a strategic U-turn for the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Since March, Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox, Safari, And Chrome — The new browser wars on on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 …
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Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Twitter Suspending Accounts in Droves — Twitter seems to be on a roll lately. It would seem, either by bug, or some new policy just implemented, Twitter has just suspended hundreds to thousands of Twitter accounts with little to no reason. You can see all the action, semi-real-time here.
Harrison Hoffman / CNET News:
4chan may be behind attack on Twitter — Update: Twitter has reacted to this raid by removing the term from its trending topics, but evidence can still be found on Twitter Search. — Twitter saw a huge influx of fake accounts on Sunday, pushing the NSFW trending topic, #gorillapenis, all the way to the top of the list.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Prepare Yourself For iPod Video — Like most people who've had an iPhone 3GS in their hands, we've been extremely impressed with the video capabilities of this little device. Not only Does it take near-HD video, it has excellent basic editing software and video can be uploaded to YouTube over Wifi or the cell networks.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate — The increasingly competitive browser market has at last created an environment in which emerging Web standards can flourish. One of the harbingers of the open Web renaissance is HTML 5, the next major version of the W3C's ubiquitous HTML standard.
Stephen Hutcheon / The Age:
Google wants a bigger slice of the real-estate search business — In a move that has raised eyebrows among established players in the classified real-estate business, Google Australia has unveiled a new tool on its mapping service that will directly link buyers and renters to available property.
Markcuban / blog maverick:
When you succeed with Free, you are going to die by Free — The problem with companies who have built their business around free is that it is far from free to remain successful. — The more success you have in delivering free, the more expensive it is to stay at the top.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Rise of Web Video, Beyond 2-Minute Clips — When motion pictures were invented at the end of the 19th century, most films were shorter than a minute, because of the limitations of technology. A little more than a hundred years later when Web videos were introduced, they were also cut short …
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breaking news presents challenges and opportunities to improve — Thursday June 24th was a big news day: details about Governor Mark Sanford's confession on Wednesday about his liaison in Argentina continued to break, we learned of Farah Fawcett's death, and then later TMZ broke the news of Michael Jackson's death.
