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- Jon maddog Hall Comes Out In Honor Of Alan Turing's Birthday
- Salesforce Acquires TechStars And TechCrunch Disrupt Alum Thinkfuse
- You Won't Find Friends Nearby Anymore: Facebook Pulls Its Location-Aware Mobile App To Add New Friends
- More Evidence Shows Apple Store Search Changes (Including Some Sad Developers)
- Microsoft Confirms They Won't Be Making Their Own Windows Phones
- Facebook Hides Your Email Address Leaving Only @Facebook.com Visible. Undo This Poppycock Now
- Backup Box Makes Switching Between Cloud Storage Services Easy, Now Also Supports Google Drive
- Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's Long-Time COO, Becomes First Woman On Its Board Of Directors
- T-Mobile's Galaxy Note Press Shots Leak Out, Expected On July 11
- Infoaxe's Flipora Passes 8M Registered Users, Adds Discovery Engine
- Microsoft: Bing Maps' High-Res Imagery Will Cover All The U.S. And Europe By The End Of The Year
- Gmail's iOS App Gets Full Notification Center Support, Stops Automatically Logging You Out
- With $1.2 Billion Yammer Buy, Microsoft's Social Enterprise Strategy Takes Shape
- TalkFavorites.me Is A Hyper-Local, Hyper-Objective Reviews Engine
- Google: More Than 500 School Districts In The U.S. And Europe Now Use Chromebooks
- Y Combinator-Backed Rentobo Helps Landlords Fill Apartments Without All The Messy Paperwork
- Berkeley Study: For MBAs, Happiness Isn't About the Money
- Box Brings Its OneCloud Platform To Android With 50 Apps
- Habbo Hotel Kids Social Network Reopens For Business Post Pedophile Scandal: Spain, Brazil, Finland First Up
- Leaked Slide Sheds New Light On RIM's First BlackBerry 10 Devices
| Jon maddog Hall Comes Out In Honor Of Alan Turing's Birthday | Top |
 A dozen years ago, when I went from techno-dilettante to technophile, one of my living heroes was Jon maddog Hall, the 61-year-old writer for Linux Magazine and an early proponent for free and open source software. Today Jon came out as homosexual in honor of Alan Turing's 100th birthday. His post on the Linux Magazine website is a beautiful example of a man who has finally decided to stop hiding. | |
| Salesforce Acquires TechStars And TechCrunch Disrupt Alum Thinkfuse | Top |
 Thinkfuse, a Seattle-based startup that allows companies to send regular progress reports to managers, executives and other stakeholders, just announced that it has been acquired by Salesforce.com. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Thinkfuse describes itself as "an enterprise software-as-a-service provider that turns status reports into a powerful business tool." The service is shutting down completely on July 25, 2012 and current users will have to export all their data by that time. Thinkfuse recommends its users to move to Mailchimp. | |
| You Won't Find Friends Nearby Anymore: Facebook Pulls Its Location-Aware Mobile App To Add New Friends | Top |
 So much for that! Just as quietly and quickly as Facebook had put "Find Friends Nearby" online on Sunday, the mobile service to instantly add new Facebook friends in your vicinity is no longer there. A visit to the mobile web page is blank, and a click on the "Find Friends Nearby" tab in the iOS app goes to an error page. When we first broke the news about Facebook's new feature yesterday, the prospect raised all sorts of questions about what Facebook might do in this space. The app lets users find other Facebook users near them, and then quickly add them to their network: the service looked very rudimentary, but the concept offers potential ideas for how Facebook could develop such a service going forward. | |
| More Evidence Shows Apple Store Search Changes (Including Some Sad Developers) | Top |
 We now have more information about the changes to Apple's App Store search algorithm, thanks to a blog post from Ian Sefferman at MobileDevHQ. TechCrunch broke the news about the change on Saturday , but our story was based on the impressions of individual app developers and some searches of our own. Sefferman, however, actually crawled App Store search results, and offered this summary of his findings: | |
| Microsoft Confirms They Won't Be Making Their Own Windows Phones | Top |
 When Microsoft announced their intentions to jump into the hardware space with the unveiling of their new Surface tablet, the next logical question seemed to be whether or not the folks at Redmond would do the same for smartphones. After all, the model seemed to be doing well enough for Apple -- was Microsoft considering adopting a similar approach to help give their Windows Phones a new leg up? The answer, it would seem, is no. | |
| Facebook Hides Your Email Address Leaving Only @Facebook.com Visible. Undo This Poppycock Now | Top |
 In an attempt to improve email address privacy, Facebook has screwed up big time in what seems like a self-serving attempt to increase usage of @facebook.com email addresses that direct to your Facebook Messages Inbox. Now everyone's personal email addresses have been hidden from their profiles, regardless of previously selected privacy settings. Instead, your @facebook.com contact info is the only one visible to people with permission to see your email addresses. This makes it harder for friends to contact you via third-party email unless you reset your controls. I think Facebook should seriously consider a rollback or at least some strong notification of the changes so that 900 million people don't suddenly find their email addresses more closed and disconnected. | |
| Backup Box Makes Switching Between Cloud Storage Services Easy, Now Also Supports Google Drive | Top |
 Chances are, you have quite a bit of data on your favorite cloud storage service by now. But with the recent changes in this space, especially with Google and Microsoft making a push to compete with startups like Dropbox, what happens if you decide to switch to a different service? Moving data between different backup and cloud storage services is usually a manual and slow task, but that's where Backup Box comes in. What started as basic tool for moving data from an FTP server to Dropbox has now become a fully-featured backup and data transfer service with support for FTP, SFTP, Dropbox, Box, Microsoft's SkyDrive, MySQL, and - starting today - Google Drive. | |
| Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's Long-Time COO, Becomes First Woman On Its Board Of Directors | Top |
 Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's four-year chief operating officer, has a new position -- and one many people thought she should have gotten long ago. She's now the first woman on the company's board of directors. She'll have her own vote in all company matters, Facebook confirms with us. Board members of the public company are elected by the existing board or by shareholders (in this case she was elected by the other members). | |
| T-Mobile's Galaxy Note Press Shots Leak Out, Expected On July 11 | Top |
 It's all but confirmed. We've seen plenty of evidence over the past few months, including an image of one, but today we've spotted some interesting new press shots of what appears to be T-Mobile's Samsung Galaxy Note (blue). If the phablet isn't coming to T-Mobile, we should all consider ourselves Punk'd. | |
| Infoaxe's Flipora Passes 8M Registered Users, Adds Discovery Engine | Top |
 A couple years ago, two Stanford grad students got together and created a personal search history plug-in and engine called Infoaxe that would surface better results based on your personal browsing history. Since then, they've rebranded as Flipora, passed 8 million registered users and they're now adding another key piece to their product -- a discovery engine that helps users figure out what to visit next on the web. They're calling it a "Pandora for websites". "There is so much great stuff on the web," said co-founder Jonathan Siddharth. "This should be like an intelligent cab driver who truly knows you and directs you to the right places." | |
| Microsoft: Bing Maps' High-Res Imagery Will Cover All The U.S. And Europe By The End Of The Year | Top |
 With Google and Apple making back-to-back announcements about their new mapping efforts in the last few weeks, Microsoft obviously felt a bit left out. Today, however, the company is launching its largest imagery release in its history: Bing Maps today features a full 165 terabytes worth of new data that spans about 1 million square miles. What's maybe even more interesting, though, is that the Bing Imagery Technologies group completed its mission to cover 100% of the U.S. with aerial photography in June and that the company expects to hit the same 100% milestone for Europe this fall. All of this imagery will be published by the end of 2012. | |
| Gmail's iOS App Gets Full Notification Center Support, Stops Automatically Logging You Out | Top |
 Google's Gmail for iOS app had a bit of a rough start when it first went live last year (and by 'rough start' I mean it was pretty bad), and the search giant has been pushing out update after update since then to make the experience more worth using. Whether or not they're making any progress on that front is up to you, but a new update for the app has just gone live and it adds a handful of solid features that probably should've been there in the first place. | |
| With $1.2 Billion Yammer Buy, Microsoft's Social Enterprise Strategy Takes Shape | Top |
 Microsoft just announced it has indeed acquired Yammer, the four-year-old social networking company for enterprises, for $1.2 billion in cash. The announcement confirms weeks of very credibly-sourced rumors that have been floating for weeks around the tech blogosphere | |
| TalkFavorites.me Is A Hyper-Local, Hyper-Objective Reviews Engine | Top |
 While the name may be a bit unruly, TalkFavorites.me is a rating system for the best stuff near you. There are no reviews to AstroTurf, no business details to mess up, and no horribly-written screeds against unfairly-judged businesses. Instead, you vote for the best stuff in your area and then consult those lists as you look for, say, the best pizza in West Chester, Penn. We spoke with TalkFavorites.me founder Chris Dima about his product. He describes it as Yelp without the fuss and the goal is to basically make top 10 lists of everything everywhere. He's launched the site outside of Philadelphia and he's going to try to expand it to other markets soon. You can try your own Zip code to see if anyone has voted near you. | |
| Google: More Than 500 School Districts In The U.S. And Europe Now Use Chromebooks | Top |
 It seems like schools are the one market where Google is having some success with its Chromebook initiative. Today, the company announced that there are now 500 school districts in the U.S. and Europe that actively use Chromebooks. The company also announced a few new districts that have recently decided to use Google's web-centric laptops, including Rockingham Country Schools, N.C., Transylvania County Schools, N.C., and Fond du Lac School District, Wis. One of the reasons Google is able to make this push for Chromebooks in education is that its laptops meet the new hardware and operating system guidelines set by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). | |
| Y Combinator-Backed Rentobo Helps Landlords Fill Apartments Without All The Messy Paperwork | Top |
 Looked for an apartment lately? It sucked, right? You showed up and you had to fill out an application and submit all sorts of stupid paperwork -- credit check, proof of employment, utility invoice (apparently to prove that you can pay a bill), etc. And then, if you're lucky, your name will be pulled out of a hat amongst the other half-dozen people who applied for the same property. Well that whole process sucks for landlords and property management companies as well. After all, they're the ones who collect all that paperwork and sort through all that data. Don't you wish there were a better way? Thanks to Rentobo, there is. | |
| Berkeley Study: For MBAs, Happiness Isn't About the Money | Top |
 "Well after the point that Facebook's valuation passed $1B, Mark still lived in a small, crappy apartment and slept on a mattress on the floor. All he really cared about was work and he spent most of his waking hours at the office," wrote Facebook's first product manager, Ezra Callahan. Entrepreneurs have a peculiar habit of bucking the capitalistic expectation of easy money for long hours hunched over a laptop, leaving cushy jobs to start a risky new company, dedicating their time to charity, or simply working enough hours to make their equivalent hourly salary less-than-minimum-wage. A new longitudinal study of business students has an explanation: happiness isn't about the money. | |
| Box Brings Its OneCloud Platform To Android With 50 Apps | Top |
 Back when Box launched its OneCloud platform for enterprise mobile apps back in March, VP of Platform Engineering Chris Yeh says that virtually all of the user comments boiled down to a single question: What about Android? So today, Box is answering the cry of forlorn Android owners by releasing OneCloud for Android. | |
| Habbo Hotel Kids Social Network Reopens For Business Post Pedophile Scandal: Spain, Brazil, Finland First Up | Top |
 Habbo Hotel, the under-21 social networking site that was forced to close down earlier this month after it was revealed that people were using it to send sexual and other illicit messages to underage users, is now open once again, TechCrunch has learned. Sulake, the Finnish company that owns Habbo Hotel, two weeks ago "muted" activity on the site as it scrambled to implement better content and safety controls and call for user feedback after an investigative report from the UK broadcaster Channel 4 revealed the extent of the problem. The mess saw VC firm Balderton walk away from its 13 percent stake in the company. Today, the site is un-muted in Finland, Spain and Brazil to test out those new controls, with further markets coming online in "coming weeks," said a spokesperson. | |
| Leaked Slide Sheds New Light On RIM's First BlackBerry 10 Devices | Top |
 To say that RIM has a lot riding on their new BlackBerry 10 platform is a hell of an understatement, but to date the company has generally kept quiet on what consumers can expect from their first BlackBerry 10 devices. As anticipation builds for a launch slated for later this year, N4BB has gotten their hands on an internal slide that reveals a few new details about RIM's first BlackBerry 10 phones. | |
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