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• Attention Rupert Murdoch: Steve Jobs Passed Away On October 5th, Not October 28th
  So this guy, Rupert Murdoch, who is supposed to know a thing or two about technology, tweeted this out today. […]
• Killing Your Startup on a Thursday Night
  This is what you do when you close down your startup: you call Rackspace and cancel the Windows SQL server plan. You email SendGrid and give them notice on your Silver SMTP Service Package. You close down your Wells Fargo Business Checking account and your Paypal Merchant account. Glamorous stuff. Harder than that: you email your cofounders and tell them you […]
• The Sleeping Giants Of African Mobile Payments
  Kenya’s M-PESA is the poster child for mobile money services in Africa, but it is also increasingly gaining attention further abroad. It is, however, only one of the mobile payment systems on the continent that have bypassed the typical financial rites of passage and are very quickly catapulting consumers into a truly cashless economy, as well as transformin […]
• Anonymous Is Going After Zynga For Mistreating Employees, It Has Leaked Confidential Documents And Games
  As you know, gaming company Zynga laid off employees last week and shut down a few of its offices right before its quarterly earnings call. Well, Zynga has pissed off the online group Anonymous, and it's quite serious. Here's a video just released by them, discussing exactly what it plans to do and why. CNet is also reporting on this story, and we […]
• Google Has Set Up A “Crisis Map” For Those Preparing For Hurricane Sandy
  Google has a fantastic program that prepares the world for major events involving Mother Nature, and it has set up a crisis map for people on the East Coast preparing for Hurricane Sandy. […]
• This Guy’s Mom’s Square Reader Is Cooler Than Your Mom’s Square Reader
  It's almost Halloween, which means that all of your grown up friends with kids will be crowding up your Facebook News Feed with ridiculous photos of 2-year-olds dressed as the Incredible Hulk. It also means that the inner-geek in all of us come out. Yes, it's a fun holiday, and we love it because it brings out our creativity. I mean, did you not se […]
• Iterations: “It’s Delicate, But Potent”
  very now and then, I’ll get sucked into the distracting, immersive, emotional habit of flipping through pictures online. Rifling through albums can stop time. It’s disorienting, like stumbling upon an old photograph in your drawer, the type of visually arresting trigger that takes you back through time. For me, I keep a small cigar box full of all my old pho […]