Stories for Apr. 19, 2014
Moore’s law gives way to Bezos’s law
By Greg O'Connor, AppZero
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photo: Gigaom Illustration/Steve Jurvetson
The future of cloud computing is the availability of more computing power at a much lower cost. Read more »
Choosing the best cloud based music app on iOS for your CD music library
For those of you that still purchase music CDs, the following guide will help decide which is the best cloud based music library to access your digitized music library from your iOS device. Read more »
I analyzed more than a million bitcoin tweets. Here’s what that looks like
photo: Flickr/Zach Copley
In an effort to get a grip on how global a phenomenon bitcoin really is, I acquired data on more than 1.3 million tweets, spanning the month of February, about the crypto-currency. Here’s a breakdown of who’s tweeting, where and what they’re sharing. Read more »
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Sorting through the OpenStack nuttiness
By Barb Darrow
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Nike has reportedly fired most of its FuelBand team and is getting out of the hardware business
Turn your Instagrams into a business: Snapwire, a new mobile stock photo website, opens to public
By Biz Carson
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches despite bad weather
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Welcome to the spectrum-dome: FCC lays groundwork for its controversial incentive auction
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This week in bitcoin: Another creator, another MtGox failure
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5 big speakers and 5 big ideas for building next-generation infrastructure
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LinkedIn surpasses 300M members, announces its “mobile moment”
Should autonomous cars behave like automatons or act like human drivers?
Top jobs of the week in tech: Amdocs, Northrop Grumman and more
The Gigaom interview: Thievery Corporation’s Rob Garza on how “we live in a streaming world”
Audio engineering pioneer John Meyer: Stop chasing the next big thing, and go with FLAC instead
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Aereo’s CEO on the future of Netflix, TV sports and the public airwaves
Sponsored post: Learn & lead: USC Advanced Management Program for Digital Leaders
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Drones 101 and why your August smart lock hasn’t shipped just yet
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Uber adds new $1 “safe rides fee” to UberX rides
Google is sending dummy Glass units to prospective Explorers
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Can a little-known blogger turn his site into a business by selling memberships? Ben Thompson is sure going to try
Twitter account tied to “Internet crime” police raid – report
Twitter’s data grants will be used to research food poisoning, cancer, happiness
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KB Homes is embracing the smart home (and using Zigbee)
Hadoop analytics startup Karmasphere sells itself to FICO
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Here’s what Dropbox is spending some of its massive cash pile on — startups
Appeals court says blogs are not only media, they’re an important source of news and commentary
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MLB.tv apps add support for Chromecast
By Kif Leswing
It’s mission accomplished for Google’s Fiber roll out
The price of being webscale: Google spent $2.35B on infrastructure in Q1
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After big payday for WhatsApp, more app makers resort to “growth hacking”
Citymapper raises $10M to help you navigate on buses and trains
Two months in, Twitter data miner SocialRank introduces Analytics Dashboard
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Apple reportedly looks to integrate Shazam into Siri
LG releases open source Connect SDK, wants every TV to behave like Chromecast
Ericsson solidifies OpenStack commitment with big assist from Mirantis
Printoo paper-thin modules bring solar power, sensing and more to 3D printing and wearable devices
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Twitter announces mobile app install cards
Samsung Galaxy devices will get a custom Kindle app
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