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Airware Raises $10.7M From Andreessen Horowitz To Build Brains For Unmanned Drones
— Ready for a sky full of robo-planes? — Airware, a company that's building the brains and guts for commercial unmanned drones, is announcing this morning that they've raised a big ol' $10.7M Series A.
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Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley: “People Think We Don't Know How To Generate Revenue. This Is Wrong.”
— Foursquare has taken its fair share of flack lately, as the company rolls into its fourth year in business. Some claim the company's userbase had stagnated; others claim that the company lacks a sustainable business model.
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Facebook's Latest Home Commercial Is Just The Right Amount Of Weird
— During the Facebook Home launch event, Zuck premiered the company's first commercial for the product. — Complete with half-naked dudes stuffed into luggage compartments, surprise drag queens, and an unintentionally spooky child, it was... pretty bad.
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Burner, The One-Click Disposable Phone Number App, Comes To Android
— Sometimes you just need a temporary, disposable phone number. Why? Maybe you're not too sure about that dude you just met, but you want to give him a chance. Maybe you don't want weirdos from Craigslist calling you once your couch is gone.
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Disney Shuts Down LucasArts Just 154 Days After Acquiring It
— Pour one out for the Gold Guy tonight, my fellow gamers. A sage pillar of the industry has fallen. — Just 154 days after acquiring LucasArts as part of their larger, $4B acquisition of Lucasfilm, Disney has dissolved the classic video game development company.
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An Exclusive First Interview With Reddit's New CEO, Yishan Wong
— Just a bit over a week ago, reddit announced that they'd finally found a CEO. Now, this wasn't a matter of swapping the old guy out with the new guy — up until Condé Nast spun reddit off into its own thing back in September …
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How Coldcalling Deadmau5 On Twitter Earned One Artist His Big Break
— When I hear anyone talking about “the power of social media”, my brain immediately flips to thoughts of self-appointed gurus with uber-douche titles like “Twitter Ninja” or “Friendster Rockstar”. I can't help it.
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BOKU's Secret New Carrier Investor: Telefonica
— When Boku announced their shiny new NFC payments platform last week, the company kept noting that they would soon be announcing funding from a new carrier investor. Which carrier that might be, however, was kept a mystery.
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Apple's Q1 2012: $46.3B In Revenue, 37M iPhones And 15.4M iPads Sold
— We're still a few minutes out from Apple's Q1 2012 earnings call — but as is par for the course, the raw numbers have made their way out a bit early. And they.. are... insane. — Note: For those wondering …
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Lionsgate Sacrifices “Abduction” To Test Simultaneous Facebook/DVD Release
— When you're in charge of getting people to rent a move like Abduction, with its Metacritic score of 25 and a truly remarkable 4% on Rotten Tomatoes, what can you really do? The answer: whatever the hell you want.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).