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Anti-tech protesters visit Kevin Rose's SF home, distribute leaflets calling him a “parasite” — My house was protested today by anti-tech folks, they had a large banner saying “Kevin Rose Parasite”, handed these to my neighbors:
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| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Organizers of demonstration at Kevin Rose's home demand $3B from Google for an anarchist utopia — Anarchists Picket Digg Founder's House And Demand $3 Billion For Anti-Capitalist Housing — Anarchists staged a protest outside the San Francisco house of Digg founder and Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose today.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
The Six Juiciest Documents From the Apple-Samsung Trial This Week — Internal Apple document provided by Samsung — You'd think a corporate patent infringement battle would be boring — and you'd usually be right, even during the high-profile Round Two of Samsung versus Apple.
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Internal slides show why Apple needs a big iPhone: no growth for 4-inch phones costing $300+ — Why Apple has to make a bigger-screen iPhone 6, in its own confidential internal wording — There has been no shortage of rumors that the iPhone 6 will have a big screen ranging from 4.7-inches to over 5 inches.| Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider: |
How Techmeme Became The Must-Read News Site For Everyone In The Multibillion-Dollar Tech Industry — Over the past 10 years, the technology industry has evolved from photo-sharing websites like Flickr to photo-sharing apps like Instagram. — And, we suppose, there's been a few other changes along the way.
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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
For some, “bro” culture offers one explanation for why there are so few women in tech — Technology's Man Problem — Elissa Shevinsky can pinpoint the moment when she felt that she no longer belonged. — She was at a friend's house last Sept. 8, watching the live stream …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
One big reason we lack Internet competition: Starting an ISP is really hard — Creating an ISP? You'll need millions of dollars, patience, and lots of lawyers. — There are probably many reasons that US households have so few choices for Internet service, but not least among them is the fact … | Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online: |
Meet Mobile Accord, the company that built “Cuban Twitter” ZunZuneo with help of US government — The Fall of Internet Freedom: Meet the Company That Secretly Built ‘Cuban Twitter’ — The United States discreetly supported the creation of a website and SMS service that was … | Arielle Duhaime-Ross / The Verge: |
Driven: how Zipcar's founders built and lost a car-sharing empire — In the late '90s, Antje Danielson's son Max and Robin Chase's daughter Linnea often played together on a tire swing in Cambridge's Dana Park. The two women had met at their kids' kindergarten, but supervising the playground is how they got to know each other.
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| Nolan Feeney / The Atlantic Online: |
HBO's Silicon Valley the most recent attempt to lampoon increasingly pervasive startup culture — Revenge on the Nerds: Why It's So Cool to Laugh at the Tech World Now — In a lavish Silicon Valley mansion, amid ridiculous liquid-shrimp appetizers and a performance from Kid Rock …
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| Matt Phillips / Quartz: |
Enthusiasm for tech stock wanes as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and others fall — The market suddenly hates tech stocks and no one knows why — Seemingly out of nowhere, technology stocks have started selling off hard. Despite a solid report on US jobs Friday … | Emily Weinrebe / ACLU: |
ACLU introduces searchable archive of all leaked NSA documents — Introducing the ACLU's NSA Documents Database — The public debate over our government's surveillance programs has reached remarkable heights since the first set of NSA disclosures in June 2013 based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
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