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The Fancy Is Beating Fab And Pinterest Where It Counts—In Mobile
We just reported that Thing Daemon, which runs a Pinterest-like shopping site called The Fancy, has raised another $26 million and added an American Express executive to its board. How did it manage...
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Marissa Mayer Just Posted A Picture Of Her Baby Dressed As A Sleeping...
Let's all ignore the depressing Hurricane Sandy news for a moment and look at this picture of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's month-old baby dressed up as a plant for Halloween. One month old - Macallister...
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A NEW STAR WARS IS COMING IN 2015 (DIS)
Disney just bought Lucasfilm for $4 billion. Announcing the news, Disney also said it will release a new Star Wars movie in 2015. The movie is currently titled Star Wars: Episode 7. That means it will...
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This Startup Founder Is Saving 1.4 Million Websites From Hurricane Sandy
Massive flooding from Hurricane Sandy has taken out a bunch of important data centers in New York and New Jersey. But its also lead to some incredible stories of brotherly love, including this one from...
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Disney Buys Lucasfilm for $4 Billion (DIS)
Disney announced today it will buy Lucasfilm for $4 billion in cash and stock. George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars franchise and CEO of Lucasfilm, owns 100% of the company. Even better: A new...
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Apple Delays The Release Of A Redesigned iTunes (AAPL)
More news out of Apple this afternoon. The company is delaying the release of a revamped iTunes. We can now expect it in November, a company spokesman tells Peter Kafka of All Things D. "The new iTunes...
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Five Directors Disney Should Ask To Make Star Wars Episode 7
Disney just bought Lucasfilm for $4 billion, and it plans to make a new Star Wars by 2015. The best news is that George Lucas will not be that involved in the production of the new movie. That guy...
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Here Is A Video Of Two Kids Freaking Out About Star Wars Episode 7 Coming In...
Disney bought Lucasfilm and says it will release a new Star Wars in 2015. Vox CEO Jim Bankoff just posted this video of his kids learning this news. SPOILER: They start freaking out like you know you...
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Hey, Silicon Valley, George Lucas Just Made $4 Billion Without Any VC Money
An entrepreneur by the name of George Lucas just cashed out of the company he founded and built: Lucasfilm. Unlike many entrepreneurs who build companies these days, George Lucas didn't raise any VC...
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New York Data Centers Bragged On Twitter Before Hurricane Sandy Took Them Down
Two data centers housed in the same New York building shut down by flooding sent out tweets boasting about their services and dinging rivals in the hours before Sandy hit. They have since apologized...
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This Guy Making A Cell Phone Call At A Lamp Post Was The Biggest Genius We...
The big story in New York is Hurricane Sandy, obviously. But the counter-part big story is that people are going to extreme lengths to find power where they can. Check out this man we saw on 47th...
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BII REPORT: How HTML5 Will Take Over Mobile Apps
HTML5 is a new technology that allows developers to build rich web-based apps that run on any device via a standard web browser. Many think it will save the web, rendering native platform-dependent...
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Almost Every Website On The Planet Could Be In Legal Jeopardy Now, Thanks To...
Zappos just lost a big court battle. In January, hackers got ahold of 24 million Zappos customers' email addresses and other personal information. Some of those customers have been suing Zappos, an...
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NEW YORK: A Tale Of Two Cities
In upper Manhattan and most of Brooklyn and Queens, it's life as usual in New York. (Except for the lack of transportation). In lower Manhattan, meanwhile, it's life in the dark, as this photo by...
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Mossberg: The iPad Mini Is Exactly That, A Smaller iPad (AAPL)
Reviews of Apple's new iPad, the iPad mini, are out tonight. The first one we're read is from the Wall Street Journal's personal tech columnist, Walt Mossberg, and he's not exactly knocked out by the...
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All The Reviewers Are Let Down By The iPad Mini's Screen (AAPL)
Apple has always been a leader when it comes to screen resolution for its mobile gadgets. With the iPhone 4 it introduced the "Retina display," which is so sharp that you can't see pixels. Earlier this...
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Amazon's Ad Slamming The iPad Mini Has A Big Error (AAPL, AMZN)
Amazon is slamming the iPad mini on its front page, doing a side by side comparison of Apple's tablet to the Kindle Fire HD. There's one problem with the comparison, though. Amazon says the iPad mini...
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REVIEW: The iPad Mini Is A Five Star Device, Worth The Price (AAPL)
Remember the iPod mini? When Apple launched that in January 2004, at a time when a huge swathe of the fast-growing digital music player market was still up for grabs, people thought Apple was crazy....
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10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL, MSFT, DIS, GOOG)
Good morning! Here's the news: Disney paid $4 billion for Lucasfilm. Disney will make a new Star Wars movie, which will be released in 2015. The iPad mini is a pretty great device. But, the lack of...
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Google Is Selling Almost 1 Million Nexus 7 Tablets Per Month (GOOG)
Google is selling almost one million Nexus 7 tablets per month, according to Asustek CFO David Chang. Chang tells the Wall Street Journal, "At the beginning, it was, for instance, 500K units a month,...
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