December 30, 2015
Debian Creator Ian Murdock Dead At 42
Ian Murdock – the ‘ian’ in Debian – was found dead at his home in San Francisco on Monday. The cause is yet unknown. Murdock was an integral…
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December 30, 2015
T-Mobile CEO Discusses Consolidation Rumors, His Predictions For Tech In 2016
As the latest year of the future folds into the next, the most bombastic/annoying/entertaining of CEOs sets his gaze on the technologies that will define the wireless space…
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AT&T Snaps Up Assets, Talent From Carrier iQ, Phone Monitoring Startup Goes Offline
Remember Carrier iQ? In the years before Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA, the name and its software became synonymous with creepy, unseen monitoring of everything that you do on…
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DJ Khaled On Technology, Entrepreneurship And Snapchatting His Keys To Success
If I told you that the hottest person on social media right now is a rap producer telling fans that eating egg whites and drinking a gallon of…
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Slack’s New TV Commercial Is Adorable And Effective
If you’re in the tech world, then you know exactly what Slack is and does. As you eke outside of our little techosphere, however, you might get some…
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Credit Karma Acquires Innovative Mobile Notifications Startup Snowball
Credit and finance management platform Credit Karma, known best as the startup that offers free, no-strings-attached credit scores, has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired the…
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Group Commerce Startup Massdrop Is Working With Its Users To Design New Products
Massdrop‘s investors have argued that the group commerce site is more a community than a straightforward marketplace. Here’s one way that Massdrop is doing things differently — a…
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Flaming Wreckage Of Clinkle Rebuilds As A Referral Service
Clinkle imploded after employees quit en masse in May, protesting how its young CEO Lucas Duplan was mismanaging the $30 million-funded payments startup. But Duplan won’t quit. TechCrunch has…
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Report: Apple Devices, “Phablets” Dominate Holiday Sales
More consumers were unwrapping new “phablet” devices this holiday season, according to a report out this afternoon from Flurry. The big-screened form factor, whose name is a mashup…
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RoboFisher Will Let You Fish In Even The Harshest Of Storms
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s inability to fish in thee! In northern, colder climes, fish, as we all know, tend to…
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