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Why We Start Up Startups

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Thanks to the great Brad Feld for publishing this column in his blog today as well. Pause for a moment.  And ask yourself some simple questions you probably don’t think about every day....

Steve Jobs Did Not Liberate Us. Tim Berners-Lee Did, By Freeing Ones and Zeros To Eat the World

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30 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. More accurately, The Great Magician took it out of a bag and let it talk to us. The Macintosh, as I learned from first-hand experience in 1984,...

DarkList Links Silk-Road-Style Drug Dealers

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When the Department of Justice took down the anonymous, Bitcoin-based narcotics bazaar known as the Silk Road in October, the dark web drug market didn’t disappear. It splintered into smaller markets...

The End of the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules, at Least For Now

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As most commentators, myself included, predicted last fall, a federal appellate court has vacated the FCC’s controversial 2010 “net neutrality” rules, holding that the agency wildly exceeded its...

Jaguar Super Bowl 2014 Ad Villains are Ben Kingsley, Mark Strong and Tom Hiddleston

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The Super Bowl 2014 takes place on February 2, 2014 and will have besides the big game a huge line-up of Super Bowl ads. Fox managed to charge $4 million on average for 30 second spots. The Jaguar...

The Apple Mac Turns 30 Years Old

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Apple sure has come a long way. The company has seen hard times and been rescued from the doldrums by a resurgent Steve Jobs. It also saw its super-genius founder Jobs succumb to cancer a few years...

Tax Filing Procedure Complicated

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The taxpayers are facing a conundrum of sorts as issues are being raised over the legitimacy and overall functioning of the IRS tax filing system. The most recent problem that has everyone dazed and...

Pope Francis Talks Internet

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“The internet …,” writes Pope Francis today, “offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.” With that, Pope Francis offered the world some...

Booger & Lewis Geek Out About ‘King Of The Nerds’

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When the second season of TBS’s reality TV competition King of the Nerds begins tonight, viewers can expect the program to reach nerdier heights than ever. Just ask two of the most iconic nerds in...