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Court: Bloggers have First Amendment protections

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US appeals court rules bloggers, public have same First Amendment protection as journalists GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that bloggers and the public...
    






Dropbox Founder Drew Houston Joins Billionaire Ranks As Company Reaches $10 Billion Valuation

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In late 2011, a young and brash Drew Houston was doing battle with Steve Jobs. Two years shy of 30, the Dropbox cofounder and CEO had brushed aside the advances of the Apple guru only to him face...
    






Why It’s Still Not Game Over For Nintendo

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News remain grim for Nintendo's Wii U video game console, and this has led to renewed speculation over the Japanese company’s future as a hardware manufacturer. The bad news is in the numbers....
    






Should Digital Health Startups Prioritize Eyeballs or Revenue?

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The good news, I guess, is that the well-worn “eyeballs versus revenue” debate – a dialog that has beset the tech world for years – has at long last reached digital health, suggesting that now there...
    






Top 50 Global Financial Firms – Trust (TR) Or The Guillotine (FT)?

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Trust in global financial institutions has improved but still remains negatives, according to a Thomson Reuters survey of news and social media. Its proprietary TRust Index showed “trust sentiment in...
    






A Little More Context On That Fired Yahoo Exec’s Massive Golden Parachute

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As crazy as it sounds, severance packages worth more than $100 million — like the one Yahoo gave fired COO Henrique De Castro this week — occur with some regularity in corporate America, and have...
    






Solar Grid Storage: Finding Value In Grid Frequency Regulation

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Many observers feel that energy storage has the potential to be one of the ‘next big things.’ A number of companies are working hard at developing and deploying storage technologies, and raising...
    






Nintendo’s Imagined Success Is More Dangerous Than Their Current Failure

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There’s big news today that Nintendo has drastically revised their fiscal year forecast of Wii U sales, cutting the prediction from 9 million to 2.8 million,  just a few months before the goal was...
    






The Feds Are Ready To Sell $25 Million of Bitcoin Seized From The Silk Road

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One of the bigger wallets on the Bitcoin blockchain is going to be emptied in the near future. Back in October, when the feds took down the online drug bazaar Silk Road, they seized the nearly 30,...