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Yahoo Acquires Cloud Party

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Yahoo has outdone itself. It is about to make an acquisition in the form of Cloud Party. Cloud Party is a free virtual gaming world experience that is based on virtual reality. Cloud Party team...

Google Ad Chief Susan Wojcicki Talks about Next Big Battle

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Straightforward and unflashy, Susan Wojcicki doesn’t come off like the most powerful woman in advertising that Forbes and others have labeled her. When we meet outside her office at the Googleplex in...

SeatGeek Ticket Platform Jumps 10% After Strangling Its Competition

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About three months after skewering a competitor on its acquisition-spear, ticket search firm SeatGeek is seeing a 10% jump in traffic and revenue. The company had acquired and shut down a chief rival...

Should Microsoft Buy Yahoo for $53 Billion?

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The last time Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo — valuing it at $45 billion, Steve Ballmer hoped that some value could be created by combining their media assets. As he said back then, “We have great...

Exploiting Unconventional Oil Fields Need Overcoming of Tough Logistics Challenges

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Unconventional oil and gas production is a huge factor in the US.  “Unconventionals” – which include shale gas, shale oil, and tight gas sands – accounted for over 8.5 trillion cubic feet of...

A Record Year For Israel’s Technology Market With Acquisitions And IPOs Totaling $7.6 Billion

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Start-Up Nation topped the charts in 2013. The value of all successful exits in the Israeli technology market in 2013 reached a total of $7.6 billion, according to PwC Israel (PDF; in Hebrew). At $...

Super Bowl 2014 Ads Preview on Youtube Ad Blitz

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In the past, most of the advertisers who showed their products on the Super Bowl platform kept the actual ad a top secret until the final moment.But now that strategy is undergoing a radical change....

Proposing A Compelling OSCON Talk

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By Simon St. Laurent The OSCON call for proposals closes on January 30th. I’ve seen some great explanations of how to write a conference proposal generally, and my co-chair Matthew McCullough has an...
    






Google Buys Nest Just As Internet Of Things Suffers First Global Cyber Attack

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Following this week’s announcement that Google has agreed to purchase connected home device maker Nest for $3.2 billion there has been a lot of speculation about whether Google can be trusted with...