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The Business of Fake Hollywood Money
Making fake cash is a risky line of work -- even if it's as a certified Hollywood prop master.
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Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla
I am pleased to announce that Chris Beard has been appointed CEO of Mozilla Corp. The Mozilla board has reviewed many internal and external candidates –
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Orchard and Fig are joining Docker
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Stripe launches in Australia
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Welcome new YC team members
We have a bunch of new additions to the YC team to announce. Scott Bell is joining the YC software team. He was a co-founder of Skysheet from YC W09. He’s coming to YC from Houston where he was doing consulting and Lisp hacking. Dalton Caldwell is becoming a partner. He was the cofounder and CEO of imeem (acquired by…
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YC Portfolio Stats
We get asked a lot for statistics on the YC portfolio. Even though some of these aren’t that helpful [1], here is the latest update on the numbers we get asked about the most. As always, all the credit goes to the founders. Total market cap of all YC companies: >$30 billion Total money raised by all YC companies: >$3…
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Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC
[http://instagram.com/p/qPXemCGEse/?modal=true] Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20554 July 14, 2014 Re: Open Internet Remand, GN Docket 14-28 Dear Chairman Wheeler and Commissioners Clyburn, Rosenworcel, Pai, and O’Rielly: Y Combinator is Silicon Valley’s premier early stage…
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New Parallella Boards
When we launched the “$99 Parallella project” on Kickstarter in 2012 , the goal was to “democratize access to supercomputing”. With a $99 price point, we knew that we would not make a profit, but we figured the value of reaching the whole world with our technology was enough of a reward for Adapteva as a company. With…
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Y Combinator
Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.
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Silent Circle Launches Global Encrypted Calling Plan
Interested in joining the conversation on privacy? Check out our articles on privacy and information security in the business environment.
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Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth
Call the rural call completion (RLEC) hotline toll free or send us an email if you suspect rural call completion issues on the Verizon network.
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Alcatel-Lucent sets record of 10 Gbps over traditional copper telephone lines
Advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.
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Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions
Challenge Munich is the third-largest city in Germany, with approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The local governing body employs more than 33,000 people – 16,000 of whom use PCs as part of their daily roles. Those computers are located at different sites and their users have widely differing needs. In 2001, there…
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Bitcoin Core switching from hard-coded to flexible fees in next major release
Latest crypto news, Bitcoin analysis, and clear insights into cryptocurrency. Independent coverage from BitcoinFoundation.
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Update to Microsoft Takedown – Domains Fully Restored
We would like to give you an update on the Microsoft takedown and announce that ALL of the 23 domains that were seized are now back in our control.
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New RFS: One Million Jobs
We want to fund companies that have the potential to create a million jobs. There are a lot of areas where it makes sense to divide labor between humans and computers—we are very good at some things computers are terrible at and vice versa—and some of these require huge amounts of human resources. This is both good…