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Shoppers! Meet @VidFall, awesome brands, luxury travel, huge savings. #VidFallvidfall.com
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30 million people use this social network … and you’ve probably never heard of it.washingtonpost.com
"We Heart It" has 30 million monthly active users. Most of them are teenage girls. -
McSema is Officially Open Source!blog.trailofbits.com
We are proud to announce that McSema is now open source! McSema is a framework for analyzing and transforming machine-code programs to LLVM bitcode. It supports translation of x86 machine code, inc... -
How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb from a Failing Startup to a Billion Dollar Businessfirstround.com
In 2009, Airbnb was close to going bust. Like so many startups, they had launched but barely anyone noticed. The company’s revenue was flatlined at $200 per week. Split between three young founders living in San Francisco, this meant near indefinite lo... - fitzgen.github.io
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Facebook Buys Secure Server Technology Provider PrivateCore | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Facebook announced this morning it has acquired PrivateCore, a Palo Alto-based secure server technology company. The deal does not appear to be solely an.. -
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Party Like It’s 1999: Japanese Retrofuturism and Chrono Trigger—Vol. 2, No. 3theappendix.net
Twentieth-century Japanese visions of a future that never came to pass. -
Rails Performance - What You Need To Knowairpair.com
This tutorial discusses the truths and myths of Rails performance and covers steps for improvement. -
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ESPN Using @Tilt Payment Tech to Let Fantasy Football Leagues Collect Dues, Payout Winners Online - Digits - WSJblogs.wsj.com
The sports network’s Fantasy Football Web and mobile apps had previously relied on a patchwork of methods to take care of league dues. -
An Empire of Stars - Lapsed Historianlapsedhistorian.com
The story of how Great Britain became a member of the small club of nations to independently achieve space flight and of Prospero, its forgotten satellite. -
Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers - Software Freedom Law Centersoftwarefreedom.org
The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software. -
Two Tap Raises $2.7M Seed Round For Its “Shopping Cart For The Entire Internet” | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Two Tap, a Y Combinator-backed startup that aims to become the "shopping cart of the entire Internet," today announced that it has raised a $2.7 million seed.. -
Celkon Campus A35K: Android 4.4 Kitkat Smartphone Now Available Exclusively Via Snapdeal at Rs 2,999gizbot.com
Hyderabad-based company claims the Campus A35K to be the most affordable smartphone in the Indian market to ship with Android KitKat mobile OS. Read more -
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SourceForge Interview: A New Game Engine - Dice Newsnews.dice.com
Over at SourceForge, the August Project of the Month is the community-elected VASSAL Engine.