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LivingSocial hacked, company suspects 50M accounts affected
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 23:28
LivingSocial, the international daily deals company, is alerting 50 million of its members to hack that left names, emails, birthdays, and hashed passwords exposed.
Jim Breyer To Leave Facebook Board
Forbes - 26 Apr 2013 23:17
Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, an early Facebook investor, plans to leave the company's board of directors in June, according to a regulatory filing.
Dispelling myths: Personalized learning tools will not replace teachers
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 22:41
Guest Post Dispelling the three most common myths about personalized learning.
5 big reasons Rosetta Stone's buy-out of LiveMocha was a mistake
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 21:42
Guest Post Hours after April Fool's day, LiveMocha CEO Michael Schutzler announced that his company was being acquired by the behemoth he had battled for five years: Rosetta Stone. There are 5 reasons why you should be s...
Odd bug affecting Apple's iMessage, deleting last word of users'
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 21:02
Apple's messaging services deletes the last word of a few key phrases. One is "The best prize is a surprise," and another is "I could be the next Obama." The only catch?
TikTakTo debuts its all-in-one approach to e-commerce
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 20:48
TikTakTo combines flash sales, product search, social features and daily deals to create 'the ultimate online shopping experience.'
Samsung's app store is the latest victim in the sanction war against Iran
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 20:33
Sanctions in Iran are making it tough for tech companies -- including Samsung -- to do business there.
These are the top 5 BYOD issues facing the healthcare industry
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 20:32
Guest Post Many hospital IT organizations across the globe are beginning to deploy bring-your-own-device strategies. But they must be prepared to face these five major issues head on.
'We're no rock stars': Meet Silicon Valley's tech talent agents (interview)
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 20:19
A San Francisco-based agency called 10x Management is among the first to bring a Hollywood agency model to the tech industry.
But Why Would Vodafone Owe Tax On Selling The Verizon Stake?
Forbes - 26 Apr 2013 19:25
Verizon is stepping up the campaign to get Vodafone to think about selling out the 45% of Verizon that it owns. They've hired bankers and lawyers to look at how it might be done, floated the idea of issuing bonds to pay ...
Gree searches for the billion-dollar game from its swanky S.F. headquarters (interview)
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 19:00
With 450 people at its U.S. headquarters, Japan's Gree is chasing after the giant mobile game.
Alcohoot combats drunk driving with 'world's first enforcement-grade smartphone breathalyzer'
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 18:50Apple's 'black hole' ecosystem will drive market share past Android, Yankee Group says
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 18:39
In a global smartphone market that Android has been expanding at a breakneck pace, a bright spot for Apple has been increasing market share in the lucrative U.S. domestic market. A new report from the Yankee Group says t...
Yes, Mr. Schmidt, talking to Google Glass is, actually, 'the weirdest thing'
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 18:12
Of course, he is 57 years old, was born in the 1950s, and was the CEO of a boring enterprise software company, Novell, before joining the much more au courant Google.
Cambridge Satchel Has It In The Bag
Forbes - 26 Apr 2013 17:44
Cambridge Satchel has come a long way since it was first launched in founder Julie Deane?s kitchen in Fen Ditton, England, in 2008. Back then, Deane and her mother did it all, from answering the phone to weighing package...
Review: Does The Sonos Playbar Audio System Deliver?
Forbes - 26 Apr 2013 17:19
The Pitch: A wireless sound system that pulls double duty: It's both a cloud-connected music machine, and a boom-bringing home theater soundbar.
AT&T's home automation service Digital Life comes to 15 cities
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 17:04
Now you can finally transform your place in the home of tomorrow.
Dysonics launches Kickstarter to fund its first wireless motion sensor for headphones
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 17:00
Rondo Motion changes your audio experience, allowing you to sense the direction that sounds are coming from.
The DeanBeat: King overtakes Zynga as the largest social gaming company
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 17:00
After 10 years, King has become the biggest in terms of daily active users for social games.
Why VCs can't afford to ignore EdTech any longer
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 16:43
Guest Post The education space is massive, very broken, barely touched by technology and has been largely underserved by entrepreneurs and investors. The opportunity for disruption, significant value creation and outsize...
Google kindly reminds developers that they can't update their apps without Google Play
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 16:18
Google Play-downloaded apps that try to update themselves without the app store are officially on Google's naughty list.
Wavii officially acquired by Google, app shuts down
Venture Beat - 26 Apr 2013 16:10
After many rumors and reports, news summarization app Wavii has officially been acquired by Google and the app has been shut down.