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- NYSE And NASDAQ To Close Down On Monday And Possibly Tuesday Due To Hurricane Sandy
- Is FastPay A Real Alternative To VC Funding? Two Digital Media Startups Say Yes
- Badabing! For iOS Helps You Find All Of Your Facebook Friends' Bikini Pics
- Everyone At Once On The Second Screen
- The Paper I Buy
- Amazon Gets Feisty, Updates Homepage To Talk Smack On The iPad Mini
- To Successfully Launch A Product, You Have To Tell A Compelling Story
- The Best Ad Campaign on the Web?
- Now That Windows 8 And The Surface Tablet Have Launched, Microsoft Turns Its Focus To Developers
- 6 Business Friendly Features In iOS 6 And What They Say About The New "Surface" Threat
- Attention Rupert Murdoch: Steve Jobs Passed Away On October 5th, Not October 28th
- Killing Your Startup on a Thursday Night
- The Sleeping Giants Of African Mobile Payments
- Anonymous Is Going After Zynga For Mistreating Employees, It Has Leaked Confidential Documents And Games
- The Internet Bands Together To Weather Hurricane Sandy: Helpful Resources And Details, Including Google's Crisis Map
- This Guy's Mom's Square Reader Is Cooler Than Your Mom's Square Reader
- Iterations: "It's Delicate, But Potent"
- Founders, ICE And The Rise Of The Entrepreneur Influencers
- The Sad State Of Video Apps
- Big Data Right Now: Five Trendy Open Source Technologies
| NYSE And NASDAQ To Close Down On Monday And Possibly Tuesday Due To Hurricane Sandy | Top |
 According to Reuters, the U.S. Stock Market will be closed on Monday due to interference that will be caused by the logistical nightmare that comes along with such a huge weather event like Hurricane Sandy. Parts of New York City have already been evacuated. As early as six hours ago, it was said that the NYSE would not be closing down, but that decision has apparently been reversed as the severity of the storm has picked up. | |
| Is FastPay A Real Alternative To VC Funding? Two Digital Media Startups Say Yes | Top |
 Back in June, I wrote about a startup called FastPay, which offers credit lines to digital media companies. At the time, CEO and founder Jed Simon pitched the service as an alternative to venture capital. Well, a couple of months later I asked: Are there really companies that used FastPay instead of raising venture funding? In response, the FastPay team put me in touch with two customers — Moguldom Media Group and Giant Media. Since I only talked to two out of what Simon said is about 100 total customers, Moguldom and Giant's probably aren't entirely representative of the FastPay experience. But they did answer my question. So yes, there at least two startups that used FastPay as a VC alternative. | |
| Badabing! For iOS Helps You Find All Of Your Facebook Friends' Bikini Pics | Top |
 Ok, so this app made me feel really dirty when I downloaded it. It's called Badabing! and it basically goes through your friends' photos on Facebook to pull out the ones of them at the pool or beach. In other words, we're talking about scantily clad photos here. I of course, for the sake of technology journalism, had to download the app and give it a whirl. It actually kind of works and it's really creepy. To protect the | |
| Everyone At Once On The Second Screen | Top |
 When the world's gaze focuses on a single televised moment, it's what's in the periphery of our vision that unites us. The second screen brings awareness of the millions watching alongside, no matter where they are. It reaffirms our interest and passion, while adding depth and fresh perspective. If you watch the game on delay, or check out the debates online later, you're missing something special. | |
| The Paper I Buy | Top |
 We're living in a pre-barbaric age. Gutenberg and the printed word cast out the darkness of a hundred mistakes, a thousand benighted cities hastened from the gloom, a million lights winked on in a million windows. The word, once hidden in the chests of the mind, was now scratched onto paper and carefully typeset into folios. The barbarians were cast out, fleeing ahead of the coming enlightenment. | |
| Amazon Gets Feisty, Updates Homepage To Talk Smack On The iPad Mini | Top |
 Competition in the low-cost tablet space has been heating up for a while now thanks to strong new hardware from the likes of Asus, Google, and Barnes & Noble, but it seems the time has come for the Kindle Fire hucksters at Amazon to go on the offensive against a very prominent rival: Apple's iPad mini. | |
| To Successfully Launch A Product, You Have To Tell A Compelling Story | Top |
 "The art of narration and dramatic presentation, together with a keen sense of the oral epic style, became a characteristic quality of the Russian people." —Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folktale At the end of a week filled with product launches and press conferences, it's hard not to compare those marketing events. Without even talking about the products, some were much more compelling than others. And it all comes down to the story that you tell, as a company. Failing at that task will greatly endanger your product. | |
| The Best Ad Campaign on the Web? | Top |
 Over the past two weeks, I've been involved in a Facebook ad campaign whose results are astonishing. It's a political campaign supporting California's Proposition 37 (Label Genetically Engineered Foods). Our Facebook sales rep was ecstatic when she first saw the numbers. She'd never seen anything like it in her career. But before I share the details, let me explain why I'm passionate about this. | |
| Now That Windows 8 And The Surface Tablet Have Launched, Microsoft Turns Its Focus To Developers | Top |
 Microsoft's heavy schedule of launches and events this month, including the Windows 8 and Surface events in New York last week and its Windows Phone 8 event in San Francisco on Monday, is set to reach its end with the Build developer conference on the company's huge Redmond, WA campus starting on Tuesday. In some way, this is almost symbolic, given that the future of the Windows 8 platform is now really in the hands of the developers. | |
| 6 Business Friendly Features In iOS 6 And What They Say About The New "Surface" Threat | Top |
 Apple CEO Tim Cook said in the earnings call this past week that 80% of the Fortune 500 companies use iPhones and iPads. To make his point, Cook said companies such as Canon are outfitting its entire field sales teams with iPads. | |
| Attention Rupert Murdoch: Steve Jobs Passed Away On October 5th, Not October 28th | Top |
 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 | Top |
 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're jumping into the deadpool. Your fingers will hover over the keyboard for a long time as you decide what to say. Because now shit is getting real. | |
| The Sleeping Giants Of African Mobile Payments | Top |
 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 transforming lives in a very real sense. | |
| Anonymous Is Going After Zynga For Mistreating Employees, It Has Leaked Confidential Documents And Games | Top |
 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're actively checking to see if this is a legitimate maneuver. According to BusinessInsider, the group is threatening to take down both Zynga and Facebook on November 5th. The offensive has been dubbed "#OP MaZynga" | |
| The Internet Bands Together To Weather Hurricane Sandy: Helpful Resources And Details, Including Google's Crisis Map | Top |
 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 | Top |
 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 see the awesome Path Pumpkins, which I've dubbed Pathkins? | |
| Iterations: "It's Delicate, But Potent" | Top |
 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 photographs, dating back to childhood. They're all warped now, fading in color. I keep the box tucked away under the bed, forgetting about it because I know going through it would take me places, some good, and maybe some not so good. Maybe you've heard a song that triggered a memory locked up in the corner of your brain. Maybe you run into someone from your past in real life, and you just stop in place. Or, maybe you see a photograph that ties it all together, jarring and powerful. If you've watched Mad Men, you'll no doubt recall the famous carousel scene at final episode of the first season, a classic moment where Don Draper talks about a consumer product, based on photographs, that had the rare chance to create a sentimental bond with people. | |
| Founders, ICE And The Rise Of The Entrepreneur Influencers | Top |
 Watching the dawn come up with a bunch of European entrepreneurs on tour in Tel Aviv this week, and hanging out with many of them at the recent F.ounders conference in Dublin, made me realise one thing: these guys just don't care. They will do anything it takes to make it happen. Their attitude is in stark contrast some of the issues they face. Sometimes, when you look at the dire economies and the regulations European entrepreneurs have to deal with, you would forgive them for moving entirely to another part of the planet. Not only two they generally have to deal with less access to funding than their US counterparts, but also the EU commission looking over their shoulders with continual changes to Cookie and privacy laws. But increasingly they are waking up to the fact that they may just be at the start of a journey which sees them develop not just economic power but gradually, political influence. | |
| The Sad State Of Video Apps | Top |
 Editor's Note: Armando Kirwin is a filmmaker and consultant whose previous work has included Paramount Pictures, Microsoft, several startups, thirteen feature films, and a handful of TV shows. Follow him on twitter: @armandokirwin. Most of us remember where we were the moment the world learned about the billion-dollar sale of Instagram, but amidst the pursuing flurry of tweets ("it's too high!,"It's too low!", "We need to integrate filters right now!"), if you happened to browse the AppStore that day you might have noticed that the now-infamous app was actually ranked third. Sitting in the number one spot was a video app. I honestly can't even remember which one it was, like everyone else, all I saw was a placeholder for a 1 followed by nine zeros. | |
| Big Data Right Now: Five Trendy Open Source Technologies | Top |
 Big Data is on every CIO's mind this quarter, and for good reason. Companies will have spent $4.3 billion on Big Data technologies by the end of 2012. But here's where it gets interesting. Those initial investments will in turn trigger a domino effect of upgrades and new initiatives that are valued at $34 billion for 2013, per Gartner. Over a 5 year period, spend is estimated at $232 billion. | |
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