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Permission to Fail
Startups are not easy, it's a rollercoast of small triumps and losses, and emotional highs and lows, learn the valuable lesson of accepting failure.
Introducing the new Google+
If you head over to Google+ today, you’ll see that things look a little different.
Chrome OS is here to stay
We’ve been working on ways to bring together the best of both Android and Chrome OS, but there's no plan to phase out Chrome OS.
Keybase raises $10.8M
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Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal
Trade negotiators from the U.S. and its 11 Pacific Rim partners announced their agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) today, concluding the final round of closed negotiations in Atlanta and marking the culmination of seven years of secrecy. Throughout all that time, the U.S....
Mattermost 1.0 released – open-source Slack alternative
One secure place for everything critical to your team: messaging, file sharing, and collaboration — deployed on your terms.
We Tried Slack and Regretted It
Back in April, all was well with our community of busy adults learning to code. We were communicating using Gitter.im, a GitHub based chatroom system. And yet every day, someone would ask me “Why aren’t your campers using Slack?” I’d considered Slack...
DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
Well, We Failed – Wattage is shutting down
We set out with ambitious plans but after a year of development, we’ve run out of cash and are shutting down Wattage.
Fake Amazon Tech Book Reviews Are Hurting My Book
Update : I really can't say as much as I would like (there's stuff I can't share), but my publisher had a face-to-face with an Amazon rep and internal action was taken. Amazon's investigation is apparently over. The internal position seems to be "we're making money, there are words on pages, so there's no problem…
Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider
For the first time ever, this month’s Stupid Patent of the Month is being awarded to a design patent. Microsoft recently sued Corel for, among other things, infringing its patent on a slider, D554,140, claiming that Corel Home Office has infringed Microsoft’s design. The design patent, as detailed...
Building an Empire with a Single Brick: Meet Patrick McKenzie
Patrick McKenzie is driven by a strong work ethic, but not the kind you see touted in business journals and productivity books.
YC Continuity
YC will fund its 1,000th company this year, and many of these companies are now scaling their organizations, revenue, and operations. Though years removed from our program, these founders continue to come to YC for advice and support, and we would like to do more to help them. To that end, I’m delighted to share that…
An $89 remanufactured Ubuntu workstation
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First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016
Since the earliest days of the Oculus Kickstarter, the Rift has been shaped by gamers, backers, developers, and enthusiasts around the world....
Django Awarded MOSS Grant from Mozilla
Posted by Andrew Godwin on Dec. 11, 2015
Microsoft and Red Hat partner
The cloud is changing the world, offering enterprises, independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers alike endless scale, speed and agility in a cost-effective way. I’ve been talking with customers about “why cloud” for years. Recently there has been a shift in these conversations, as the benefits have become…
Mobile Changes Everything
[vimeo 130722577 w=720 h=404] watch time: 25 minutes We’ve shared a lot of data about whether and why ‘this time is different’. But beyond that, why is the tech market opportunity larger than any time in history (no, really!)? One word: mobile. In this update of his past presentation on Mobile Eating the World …